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Unlikely ed allies join forces to cut chronic absenteeism in half by 2029
Three high-profile education advocacy and research groups crossed political lines in Washington, D.C., Wednesday to announce an ambitious goal: cutting chronic absenteeism in half over the next five years. For the first time, the conservative American Enterprise Institute, the left-leaning Education Trust and the national nonprofit Attendance Works joined forces to confront an issue that...
By Amanda Geduld | July 24, 2024
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LA Unified faces criticism after collapse of splashy AI tool “Ed”
Parents, educators, and advocates criticized Los Angeles Unified’s bumpy rollout and collapse of its splashy artificial intelligence chatbot “Ed” – even as the district moved ahead with more projects powered by the cutting-edge technology. LAUSD last month shut down the chatbot after the firm hired to build it lost its CEO and furloughed workers. District officials...
By Ben Chapman | July 23, 2024
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‘I needed help’: Students spill the truth about college experiences
Community college student Jennifer Toledo says earning a four-year degree is exciting, but has had difficulty navigating the complicated higher education system after growing up in Mexico. Benjamin Gregory, a former community college student, managed to graduate with an associate degree and transfer to a four-year school despite the challenges of enrolling as an older...
By Joshua Bay | July 22, 2024
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Benjamin Riley: AI is another ed tech promise destined to fail
For more than a decade, Benjamin Riley has been at the forefront of efforts to get educators to think more deeply about how we learn. As the founder of Deans for Impact in 2015, he enlisted university education school deans to incorporate findings from cognitive science into teacher preparation. Before that, he spent five years...
By Greg Toppo | July 18, 2024
Studies: Pandemic Aid Lifted Scores, But Not Enough To Make Up for Lost Learning
‘Astonishing’ Absenteeism, Trauma Rates Root of Academic Crisis
Reinventing Report Cards: Reading, Writing, Collaboration and Other Work Skills
Older Immigrant Students Say High School Admission Bettered Their Lives in U.S.
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FAFSA nightmare might not be over: Education Department won’t rule out another wave of financial aid delays for college students this fall
The botched rollout of a revamped process to apply for federal financial aid could have long-lasting effects, with students receiving less money for college this fall and others so fed up they’re delaying their educations. Now, with the traditional Oct. 1 start of the next financial aid season less than three months away, the U.S....
By Linda Jacobson | July 17, 2024
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Project 2025 would cut ed department, fulfill conservative K-12 wish list under Trump
An ambitious Republican agenda to transform the federal bureaucracy under a second Trump presidency would have considerable fallout in the world of education, reimagining the U.S. government as a guardian of parents’ rights and reconstituting decades-old programs to serve as vehicles for school choice. The full program, entitled Mandate for Leadership, is a roadmap for...
By Kevin Mahnken | July 16, 2024
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L.A. schools probe charges its hyped, now-defunct AI chatbot misused student data
Independent Los Angeles school district investigators have opened an inquiry into claims that its $6 million AI chatbot — an animated sun named “Ed” celebrated as an unprecedented learning acceleration tool until the company that built it collapsed and the district was forced to pull the plug — put students’ personal information in peril. Investigators with the...
By Mark Keierleber | July 15, 2024
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An LAUSD school battles chronic absenteeism with washers and dryers
For most students, having clean clothes to wear to school is not a problem. But for many families at 112th St. S.T.E.A.M. Academy in Watts, a pair of clean pants and a shirt is such a struggle that it has become one of the main contributors to chronic absenteeism, which is when students miss 15...
By Jinge Li | July 9, 2024
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Homeschoolers embrace AI, even as many educators keep it at arms’ length
Like many parents who homeschool their children, Jolene Fender helps organize book clubs, inviting students in her Cary, North Carolina, co-op to meet for monthly discussions. But over the years, parents have struggled to find good opening questions. “You’d search [the Internet], you’d go on Pinterest,” she said. “A lot of the work had to...
By Greg Toppo | July 8, 2024
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The Declaration of Independence wasn’t really complaining about King George, and 5 other surprising facts for July Fourth
Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains. His 2021 book “Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution” shows how independence and the Revolutionary War were influenced by women, Indigenous and enslaved...
By Woody Holton | July 3, 2024