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Should Instructors Ask Students to Show Document Histories to Guard Against AI Cheating?
‘Show your work’ has taken on a new meaning — and importance — in the age of ChatGPT. As teachers an...
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How Are U.S. Students Doing in Math? About as Well as Their Parents Did in 1995
The results are in — and they’re not great. International data on math and science released earlier ...
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'Remember Your Why': How My Grandmothers Affirmed My Purpose as an Educator
One day, during a quiet afternoon in my classroom, a comment one of my colleagues said lingered in t...
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Intergenerational Care Benefits Children and Seniors. Why Is It Still So Rare?
Several times a week, teachers at Tiny Images, an early learning program in Fairmont, Nebraska, load...
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Does School Choice Need a Lemon Law?
When she moved her daughter into a reputable private school in Washington at the beginning of the pa...
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Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies Have a Direct Impact on Youth Mental Health. So Does Support.
Findings from a recent survey by the Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention among...
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Why I Spend My Lunch Hour with Students
My favorite part of my job is not actually part of my job. As a public high school teacher in a stat...
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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment
Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-s...
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How This Curriculum Specialist Brings Math to Life for Students
The idea of being “bad at math” or “not a math person” is deeply entrenched in American education — ...
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What Does It Mean to Be AI Ready? [Infographic]
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing society, workplace and education. To be prepared for the...
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Unlocking AI’s Potential in Higher Education
AI has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives — and it is already doing so. According ...
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How Are New AI Tools Changing ‘Learning Analytics’?
For years educators have been trying to glean lessons about learners and the learning process from t...
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Does Facial Recognition Belong in Schools? It Depends Who You Ask
It was early in the school day when a 17-year-old gunman began firing into a classroom in the art co...
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What Does It Take To Successfully Implement Personalized Learning at Scale?
At its core, personalized learning is about recognizing that no two students learn exactly the same ...
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What Happens When 'Play' Is Left Out of the School Curriculum
Only six weeks had passed since the start of this school year, and I was already feeling exhausted. ...
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What We Learned About Teaching and Creativity by Commissioning a New Podcast Theme Song
The theme song of a podcast may only play for a few seconds at the beginning and ending of an episod...
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What to Know About the Rise of Smartwatches Among Kids
All year long, schools have been grappling with how to respond to student cellphone use, which, acco...
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Rethinking Digital Citizenship
The need to teach responsible and ethical digital habits has never been more pressing. For students,...
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With Card Games, Coloring Sessions and ‘Hang Out Times,’ Professors Rethink Office Hours
Office hours for Patrick Cafferty’s biology classes are anything but traditional. Sometimes, student...
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When Students Miss School, Teachers Enjoy Their Jobs Less
Since the pandemic, the number of students who are missing class has risen. More than a quarter of s...
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