Sensational headlines make it seem like AI will either save public education (“AI will magically give teachers back hours in their day!”) or destroy it completely (“Students only use AI to cheat!” “AI will replace
I’m a high school junior. Before I graduate I’d really like to see California formally integrate digital wellness into existing health education classes, writes Elise Choi, a student at the Orange County School of the
A University of Southern California survey finds students spend an average of 1.5 hours using the phone in school every day no matter how restrictive policies are, according to an article in The 74. At
A new white paper from the Hoover Institution shows how locally developed teacher-originated educational innovations can successfully emerge, spread, and achieve lasting impact at scale. The report builds on a study from the Education Futures
A complete overreliance on opaque, biased, and poorly regulated AI systems is the worst-case outcome for artificial intelligence in K-12 schools, according to an article in Education Week. Teachers are only facilitators because they lack
Educators can move beyond rote memorization and give young learners the tools they need for fluent, confident reading, writes Kendall Stallings, a kindergarten teacher in Fairfield County, Conn., in an eSchool News commentary. Phonemic awareness,
While hundreds of adolescents at Cougar Mountain Middle School outside of Seattle chatter away at lunch time, at one table, 7th grader Mateo Sanchez-Hernandez engages in chess with Bob Fritz, an 83-year-old retired engineer and
At Antioch High School in Contra Costa County, Calif., students sign up to become peer advocates and support peers through counseling, mentorship, conflict mediation and brief interventions for substance use and mental health, according to
Students who use artificial intelligence inside and outside the classroom are more advanced than schools in adopting generative AI tools for learning, according to a new survey by Project Tomorrow, a national nonprofit that researches
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