Correction appended Aug. 19 Tampon Tim? Try Teflon Tim. In the days since Vice President Kamala Harris tapped him as her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — a popular former rural high school social studies teacher/football coach-turned-politician — has emerged, on education matters, as a master needle-threader. To wit: In 2023, with Democrats in...

Are U.S. public schools lagging behind other countries like Singapore and South Korea in preparing teachers and students for the boom of generative artificial intelligence? Or are our educators bumbling into AI half-blind, putting students’ learning at risk? Or is it, perhaps, both? Two new reports, coincidentally released on the same day last week, offer...

At lunch last school year, sixth graders at Bayside Middle School in Virginia Beach could be heard shouting “Uno” and tapping out sound patterns on a Simon game console. Getting students hooked on classic games is one way Principal Sham Bevel has tried to soothe their separation anxiety after the district banned cellphones two years...

A new online math program is flipping traditional math instruction on its head, doing away with instructions and celebrating mistakes. Teachers say Struggly, available for at-home or classroom use, is a game changer for K-8 students discouraged by math or having a hard time with traditional tasks because of language barriers or learning disabilities. In...

When 826LA development manager Alma Carillo finished a recent tutoring session with an LA Unified student, she was met with an unexpected surprise. “I remember after we bound his book and handed it to him, he stared at it, and then he looked up at me, and then he stared back and was like, ‘I...

Parents from across the political spectrum report greater confidence in their kids’ teachers and schools than they do in the national education system at large, with the overwhelming majority (82%) giving teachers an ‘A’ or ‘B’ for how they’ve handled education this year. The results come from a survey that polled 1,518 parents of K-12...

New protections against sexual harassment and discrimination, including for LGBTQ students, went into effect in less than half the country on Thursday as legal challenges to the Biden administration’s Title IX rewrite pile up. Nonetheless, in a webinar with district and college officials, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona called the new rule a major “milestone” and...

California es, en casi todos los aspectos, uno de los estados más diversos y vibrantes de los Estados Unidos. Es el estado más poblado del país; además, no tiene ningún grupo racial o étnico mayoritario. La combinación de las inversiones públicas en el sistema de la Universidad de California y la actitud hospitalaria del estado...

California is, by almost every measure, one of the United States’ most diverse and vibrant states. The country’s most populous state, it also has no majority racial or ethnic group.  The combination of public investments in the University of California system and the state’s welcoming approach to immigration have created a dynamic, technology-infused economy that...

Earlier this summer, leaders at the ed tech company AllHere, contracted by Los Angeles schools to build a heavily hyped $6 million AI chatbot, offered assurances to one of its investors. At the time, principals with Boston Impact Initiative were finalizing the firm’s annual impact assessment of AllHere, a 2016 startup that offered a tech-driven...