This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Can teachers expect to benefit from AI’s timesaving capabilities in their classrooms? AI’s capabilities arguably limit it from performing many of the intensely human aspects of teaching. AI does have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Education used to be simple: there was a blackboard, a teacher and desks in a classroom. Today, a student can practice English online, upload homework through a portal and learn…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On a daily basis, students need to know how they are doing and teachers need to know how to move learning forward. That is the gist of effective formative assessment practice,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Higher education has been lauded, for better or for worse, as one of the best paths to a career. This makes some sense: A significant percentage of today’s jobs require bachelor’s degrees,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I am one of few African-American educators in a predominantly white school district. After I reported witnessing dozens of white students in a group using the N-word on school property,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Far too few minority students pursue or complete their education beyond high school. Instead of dreaming about where they want to attend college, or what they want to study, many…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the last year, I interviewed students and educators to learn how some innovative schools might better prepare students to succeed within their models. Just like incoming high school freshmen all…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hope Academy is a school for street children in the outskirts of Beirut, and began as an idea of Brady and Amber Black, the school’s founders, when they were living in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Her mother deported, her father incarcerated, 6-year-old V. Doe entered Rhode Island’s foster care system in 2005. By 2017, the girl-turned-teenager had changed residences no less than a dozen times…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. AI is a backend algorithm developed by Youtube to connect user videos to the appropriate audience. AI is chat bots that provide timely customer service and direction to users across…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Overshadowed by attention to the challenges faced by nonwhite high school graduates in cities, low-income black, Hispanic and Native American students in rural areas are equally unlikely to go on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world is facing an urgent learning crisis. The International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity (the Education Commission) predicts that, by 2030, 825 million children in low- and middle-income…