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AI-created quizzes can save teachers time while boosting student achievement
This summer, everyone from homeschoolers to large urban districts like Los Angeles Unified is trying to process what artificial intelligence will mean for the coming school year. Educators find themselves at a crossroads — AI’s promise for revolutionizing education is tantalizing, yet fraught with challenges. Amid the excitement and the angst, and the desire to...
By Xue Wang & Hunter Gehlbach | August 12, 2024
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Who should be allowed to cross the school district line: Bureaucrats or parents?
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court case Milliken v. Bradley, which is regarded by many academics and observers as one of the most consequential judicial decisions in our nation’s history. The 1974 decision overturned a desegregation plan in Detroit that would have encompassed both the Detroit Public Schools and 53 nearby...
By Derrell Bradford & Tim DeRoche | August 7, 2024
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Forget hot-button ed issues — voters want safe schools and kids who can read
Excited graduates wearing caps and gowns walk across the stage. After exhorting speeches, auditoriums and bleachers erupt in tears, hugs and laughter as one milestone is passed and another era begins. As the nation’s school districts celebrate this transition in the lives of the Class of 2024, they are also preparing for the transition from...
By Bob Wise and Javaid Siddiqi | August 1, 2024
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‘Brown’ devastated the Black teaching force. It’s long past time to fix that
It’s been 70 years since the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education ruling that declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional. We recognize that Brown was a seminal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. Yet we also acknowledge its profound consequences. Before Brown, in the 17 states that had segregated school systems, 35% to 50% of...
By Tequilla Brownie & Marc Morial | July 25, 2024
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5 ways to embrace advanced learning programs & make them available to more kids
While debates rage over who should win admission to selective high schools, public education leaves millions of talented young people, many of them students of color and from low-income backgrounds, without access to advanced learning. Vanderbilt University researchers have found that high-achieving students from the wealthiest 20% of U.S. families are six times more likely...
By Peg Tyre | July 11, 2024
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Counselor’s view: Why schools must diversify their post-secondary options and realize that one path does not fit all students
In the realm of high school counseling, the traditional narrative has often centered around the four-year college experience as the sole path to success. However, as demands of the workforce change, it’s time to recognize that there’s not a one-size-fits-all approach to post-secondary education. To ensure equitable support for all students, schools must adopt a...
By Ivonne Polanco | July 2, 2024
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Call to action: This summer, target deepfakes that victimize girls in schools
School’s almost out for summer. But there’s no time for relaxing: Kids, especially girls, are becoming victims of fabricated, nonconsensual, sexually explicit images, often created by peers. These imaginary girls are upending the lives of the real ones. The coming summer break provides the opportunity for coordinated action at the state level to disrupt this...
By Andrew Buher & Elana Sigall | June 24, 2024
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Will AI be your next principal? Probably not. But it’s here to stay
When I was a principal, if you had told me I would be working with artificial intelligence on a daily basis, I would have conjured visions of the Terminator and Skynet in my head. Fortunately, we’re not there (yet?) but the introduction of AI amplifies risks and opportunities attached to school leaders’ decisions. Education leaders...
By Gene Pinkard | June 4, 2024
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Financial literacy is great. Mandating it with a ballot initiative is not
Sometimes when I take a Lyft to LAX, the driver will ask what I do. If I tell the truth and say I’m a professor of education, I almost always regret it, because I’ll immediately get a variety of (usually) uninformed and inaccurate ideas about what’s wrong with schools and how to solve the nation’s...
By Morgan Polikoff | May 21, 2024
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What’s the right goal for student achievement? Is 50% proficiency enough? 63%?
New York City districts with above-average reading scores have asked for flexibility from Chancellor David Banks’s new literacy curriculum mandates. This raises an important question for school leaders nationwide: What’s the right goal for student achievement? Is 50% of students reading and writing proficiently good enough? Is 63%? What is the right number? Edwin Locke...
By David Wakelyn | May 15, 2024