Microsoft just released the third edition of its AI in Education Report, surveying more than 3,000 students, educators and leaders across six countries.…
Ira Apfel sat down with Pat Yongpradit, general manager of global educ…
Pat Yongpradit on Adoption, Trust and CheatingYongpradit walks through…
He addresses the recent drop in student optimism, framing it as a pred…
The Language Barrier Is the Real Barrier in Edtech
When I started looking closely at the learning platforms schools ask families to use, I noticed something easy to miss if it doesn’t affect you: almost all of them are built in English first.…
For families who speak Spanish at home, that one fact quietly changes …
A child might be able to follow along in class, but the parent often c…
The language barrier becomes an opportunity barrier.
Early Childhood Education Teachers Grapple with Screen Time
When the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its guidelines around screen time for children and teenagers for the first time in 10 years this past January, many teachers and educators applauded the news.…
The document focused less on television and more on digital devices.
It offered educators, families, pediatricians, and other stakeholders …
However, many of the recommendations were not tailored to specific age…
Artificial intelligence has wreaked havoc across secondary and higher education classrooms, leaving educators struggling to figure out how to create cheat-resistant assignments and assessments.…
While everyone is good at diagnosing the problem, no one seems to have…
So I designed a free tool to help teachers create uncheatable assessme…
The Cheat Vulnerability IndexBased on the concepts from my book, cours…
Gaining Status: Soft Skills Count for Credit at Maine, Kansas Colleges
Supporters of teaching high school students “soft” skills such as communication, critical thinking and teamwork usually tout how they can help succeed in a job or even help students get into college.…
Starting this fall, there’s a new, more tangible benefit — college cre…
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Financial Literacy Is Required For Hawai‘i Grads. Are Schools Ready?
This article was originally published in Honolulu Civil Beat.At Pearl City High School, teacher Tammy Yoon is determined to teach students the basics of personal finance.…
How to write a check.
How to calculate interest on a car loan.
How to run a cost-benefit analysis on whether to attend college.
Parents Demanding Tech Opt Outs Take Their Fight to Federal Court
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 families in a Phil…
The 8,500-student Lower Merion School District adopted a new technolog…
17 that limits the use of devices in elementary school and doesn’t ass…
AI Tutors Not Yet a Replacement for Humans, Research Says
Updated September 3, 2026 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 purple-haired avatar with the big, round glasse…
When she stumbled over “usually,” the “learning agent” wanted her to r…
New findings from Turnitin highlight the growing leadership role of teachers integrating artificial intelligence into the classroom, the demand for education-specific AI solutions, and the importance of guiding students toward using AI as a tool for learning rather than a substitute for thinking.…
Based on data gathered during the first half of 2026 and an analysis o…
Educators say they found parallels from the data with their schools’ a…
“We are always having to respond to determine, when new technologies c…