New York City students returned to public school in September facing a one-year moratorium on using generative artificial intelligence, including chatbots and tutors, in grades 2K through 8, as well as restrictions on screen time: none…
When Croton-on-Hudson’s youngest students returned to school earlier this month, a familiar — and increasingly controversial — classroom tool was missing from their desks: iPads. A new districtwide policy prohibits the devices in…
Two of the nation’s largest school systems are drawing new boundaries around artificial intelligence. New York City Public Schools has placed a moratorium on student-facing generative AI through eighth grade, while limiting high school…
The body regulating Florida public schools and state colleges Wednesday approved what the Florida Department of Education calls “one of the most comprehensive, parent-centered AI frameworks in the country.” The State Board of Education…
A month into the school year, teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District are still adapting to the district’s new policy that bans screen time for its youngest kids and will soon place significant restrictions on older…
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 nonprofit that works…
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 hula. That’s what…
“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 common in high…
In the last school year, the national student-to-school counselor ratio improved by a meager 1% — from 376 to 372 students per counselor. That’s progress. But at this rate, it would take over 30 years for schools to reach the the…
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 of artificial…
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 enforcement for more…
In her new book, Coding Kids: Big Tech’s Battle to Remake Public Schools, Natasha Singer, a veteran business reporter for The New York Times, traces Big Tech’s bid to persuade schools to embrace their products, with industry-sponsored…