3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (582+ words) When teachers face physical and verbal aggression in their classrooms, it shakes their trust in the profession. They don’t feel safe, don’t trust their administration, and often, don’t know how to continue teaching students who were their aggressors. Violence against…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (692+ words) A new survey shows educators feel confident they can integrate teaching about AI into their instruction, and most parents believe schools are ready to teach about the technology. A survey commissioned by IBM and conducted by Morning Consult of 1,019 educators…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (523+ words) I’m tired of having to babysit you. The word “fidelity” was listed in Education Week’s top-10 abhorrent buzzwords of 2022 and 2023. Frequent fidelity-checking can leave teachers with a variety of feelings: confusion over what is being assessed, frustration that the intended…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (344+ words) Personalized learning through AI tutors is touted a lot by ed-tech proponents. But is anyone buying what they are selling? Michael Pershan is a math teacher who writes about teaching at pershmail.substack.com: A decade ago, Bill Gates invested…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1069+ words) Student engagement on education-technology apps should not be equated with learning. “The real test of learning happens after the app is closed,” says the report, released Sept. 3. “Students may perform well within a tool but fail to retain or apply…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1069+ words) Student engagement on education-technology apps should not be equated with learning. “The real test of learning happens after the app is closed,” says the report, released Sept. 3. “Students may perform well within a tool but fail to retain or apply…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (332+ words) Truffaut is pointedly reminding us that there’s much we don’t know about our kids and what they’re capable of doing. It’s a troubling observation that should prompt us to reflect on why this is so. But sometimes, traditional attitudes, too,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (229+ words) As they did with reading, states have begun to roll out a wave of policies to overhaul math education in recent years, making changes like new teacher education requirements and mandated early screenings and interventions in math. Now those changes…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (444+ words) High-impact tutoring has been heralded as an evidenced-backed solution for addressing the significant academic gaps that schools are facing. But scaling and sustaining these programs are challenging for schools because they require a lot of human tutors, time, and money....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (566+ words) Like it or not, artificial intelligence has become so rapidly ubiquitous in K-12 education that teacher education programs are now puzzling over how it should be worked into how teachers are prepared—if at all. The American Association of Colleges of…...