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What If Ed Tech Does More Harm Than Good?
1+ hour, 20+ min ago (474+ words) Rick: Jared, you started out as a teacher. How'd you wind up in neuroscience? Rick: When it comes to neuroscience and ed tech, what's the one big thing educators need to know? Rick: In The Digital Delusion, you write, "Our…...
NYU's Student Paper Wants Change. It Just Doesn't Want to Hear It.
16+ hour, 45+ min ago (167+ words) Read that sentence twice. It contains, in compressed form, the entire intellectual problem the editorial is trying to deny. That is what change for the better actually looks like. It is also, not coincidentally, what Jonathan Haidt has been trying…...
Yale Studied Itself, Which Was the Problem
16+ hour, 53+ min ago (328+ words) In life, sometimes you need someone on the outside'a friend, a colleague, a stranger with no stake in your story'to point out the flaws, the mistakes, the oversights you cannot see in yourself. Universities are no different. Yale is no…...
Commencement Advice: A Letter for What Comes Next
19+ hour, 56+ min ago (202+ words) But the world you're walking into is not a continuation of campus life; it is something different, and in some ways far more demanding. But here is the good news: You can reverse this. Not all of it, not by…...
A New Federal Education Tax Credit Is Creating a Dilemma for Blue States
21+ hour, 8+ min ago (402+ words) Rick: Last summer, Congress created the new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit in the OBBBA reconciliation bill. The tax-credit provision creates a $1, 700 dollar-for-dollar federal credit for taxpayers who contribute to a "scholarship granting organization." As you well know, there are a…...
High School Reform for Dummies
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (724+ words) I keep having the same conversation. A self-assured school leader or funder will tell me about a cutting-edge high school model that's thriving in the "age of AI." They'll invariably describe schools rich with projects, "design thinking," tech, and socially…...
Thinking About Smartphone Bans in Schools
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (396+ words) If the goal is to keep kids off their phones while at school, mission accomplished. On those terms, the policy works. Phone use plunges with pouches'fewer GPS pings on campus and far less in-class use, according to teachers. Yet as…...
College Decision Day in an Era of Uncertainty
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (454+ words) Last Friday, May 1, was College Decision Day, a day when high school seniors must commit to a college. It has always been a moment of family tension, but this year the conversations that unfolded around kitchen tables were likely more…...
Discussing May Day protests and schools: Yoo on Fox News' 'Outnumbered'
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (54+ words) Discussing May Day protests and schools: Yoo on Fox News" "Outnumbered'American Enterprise Institute - AEI Discussing May Day protests and schools: Yoo on Fox News" "Outnumbered" Senior fellow John Yoo joins Fox News" "Outnumbered" to discuss the funding behind nationwide May…...
The College Financial Aid Bait-and-Switch
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (217+ words) It's a common tactic. A company providing internet service or car insurance offers you an enticing introductory price for the first year or two'only to raise it after that initial period expires. Since it's a hassle to switch providers, companies…...