2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (314+ words) Lauren Wagner is a Nebraska-based staff writer at The 74. Most student programming after the final school bell offers science, technology, engineering and math activities, but rural youth still lack access, according to a recent national survey. The nonprofit’s report accompanied…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (564+ words) Kevin Mahnken is a senior writer at The 74. Students around the world continue to fall further and further behind in the core subjects of reading and math, according to the release of scores from a widely cited standardized test on…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (699+ words) Greg Toppo is a senior writer at The 74. A former health industry reporter, Singer sees parallels between Silicon Valley’s campaign for coding, among other measures, and Big Pharma’s influence on medicine, noting huge school investments over the past few years…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1294+ words) Wendy Graham’s two kids first encountered Amira, a popular artificial intelligence tutoring platform, in 2025, during a summer reading program in New Mexico. She also used it at home with her daughter, now a fourth grader. But she found that the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (746+ words) Parents pushing back against technology in the classroom have so far directed their anger toward major corporations like Google and Curriculum Associates, the company behind the widely used i-Ready platform. But the “techlash” took a turn last week when seven…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (418+ words) Meghan McCormick is research and impact officer at Overdeck Family Foundation. Carly Robinson is a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform. By Meghan McCormick & Carly Robinson Artificial intelligence-based tutoring programs promise something schools have long…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (835+ words) Martin Slagter is an education reporter with 17 years of experience in print and digital media. His bylines have appeared in The Ann Arbor News, Chalkbeat Detroit, Kokomo Tribune and Big Rapids Pioneer. Put it in your locker. Store it in…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1523+ words) Greg Toppo is a senior writer at The 74. In the nearly four years since generative artificial intelligence began colonizing the academic lives of teens, it has changed the experience of school for millions of young people. Perhaps no group has…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1268+ words) As superintendent of Desert Sands Unified in California’s Coachella Valley, Kelly May-Vollmer has a hard time naming a system that’s not somehow connected to the district’s broadband network. Parents can check a school bus tracking app to make sure their…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (284+ words) Ayisha Irfan is founder and CEO of Augmented Intelligence Advisory, a software and advisory company that helps K-12 schools teach students to think alongside AI rather than outsource their thinking to it. On the second day, one of the teens was…...