Like most of us, Emily Freitag hears a lot about generative artificial intelligence in the classroom. Much of it seems like the typical ed-tech hype. Co-founder and CEO of Instruction Partners, a Nashville-based...
Students attending microschools are progressing at the same rate as their peers nationally and sometimes a whole lot faster than expected, even though parents often choose such programs because their kids have...
San Francisco parents are calling on schools to limit the use of AI in a literacy and reading program, following Los Angeles Unified’s ban on AI use by students, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Nearly 1,000...
AI chatbot use could be linked to lower cognitive engagement and development for children, according to reporting by the Los Angeles Times. Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology assessed a group of...
Saleem Gilliard, a Safe Path supervisor and monitor at Tanner Duckrey School in North Philadelphia, stands at the light with a student and a crossing guard as they help kids cross during dismissal on Nov. 20, 2025. It's...
Some places give you a hometown, others give you a way of seeing the world. In Hawaiʻi, I grew up knowing my neighbors’ names, volunteering in the lōʻi fields, and learning how to share stories through movement and...
Children aren’t hiding AI from us. Instead, we are hiding from AI, which is costing us the one conversation that would help them. The post I’ve visited school districts from Tennessee to NYC. American kids are not ready...
By viewing our classrooms as interconnected ecosystems, we can move beyond the surface-level debate over technology to focus on cultivating judgment, ...
Memphis enrollment stayed relatively steady in the 2024-25 school year, increasing by only 600 students.
NYC is restricting student access to YouTube on school devices, adding to new limits on screen time and generative AI in public schools.
Two distinct approaches have emerged: the UAE has integrated systematic K-12 AI education, while New York City Public Schools impose significant restrictions, especially for younger students. The post The AI education...
“Today we will be writing an in-class essay.” It was fourth period English class, and the high school student was shaking, looking at the blank screen as the teacher explained the surprise exam. Writing essays should be...
Disturbing and AI-generated versions of Dr Seuss character have been used to threaten schools and communities. The post US schools and police warn about viral ‘Cat in the Hat’ trend after teens’ arrests appeared first...
New York City parents and advocates rally against AI in schools on Thursday, April 16, 2026. While many parents have joined the movement against technology in education, polling indicates that the majority of parents...
The bans, coupled with a new APA report, signal a shift from rapid AI adoption toward more deliberate evaluation.
All summer, Dr. Marvia Jones worried over the data. Jones, director of the Kansas City Health Department in Missouri, read reports showing that not enough public school students were up-to-date with their vaccinations...
Roughly 1 in 5 teens are turning to AI chatbots for mental health support — and that number is only growing.
Using AI in IEP meetings can benefit parents and teachers – if done correctly.
Irvington Community Elementary Principal Katie Welch, left, and Irvington Community Schools CEO Rachel Maldonado stand behind Irvington Community Elementary and look at the land that's the site for a proposed data...
Children stream into P.S. 107 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, for the first day of school. The city's new policy limits student-facing AI for elementary and middle schoolers and bans individual devices before third grade.
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 Afterschool Alliance found...
Nearly 86,000 of California’s children ages 0 to 3 — more than 5% of the state’s infants and toddlers — are estimated to have experienced homelessness in 2023-24, according to new data analysis by SchoolHouse Connection...
Kids are not only using A.I. to answer questions. They’re using it to identify which questions to ask. The post Can students embrace tech innovation without losing critical thinking skills? appeared first on District...
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 Tuesday. Meanwhile, their use...
Some schools across the country are using a customizable AI chatbot to talk to students about their mental health.
As NYC schools open, Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces major questions about falling enrollment, special education, school technology, and the shape of his broader K-12 agenda.
Amanda Clear said Pennsylvania’s online school vaccination data is helping inform how she can protect her son Dylan, who has an immune disorder.
Schools were closed Tuesday and Wednesday, and officials said they could be closed longer for the safety of students. That's because the district can't access student health records and transportation and food-related...
In 2017, Alex Campbell, a sociology teacher at Elizabethton High School in Tennessee, offered his students the assignment of a lifetime: Could they solve a notorious series of cold-case murders that had stumped law...