Guiding education through the AI revolution, for the people who run, teach, and care about schools.
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News, explainers, practice guides, and opinion on AI in education.
New York City will begin issuing childcare vouchers to more than 10,000 children drawn from the waitlist for its Child Care Assistance Program, the first such enrollment in 15 months.
A federal judge filed an order moving to lift the block on Tennessee's state takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools, directing the oversight board chair to notify the court under oath once the board is ready to assume control.
An evidence-led look at an independent randomized trial of Khan Academy's AI tutor Khanmigo, separating what the study reports, what the company claims, and where those accounts diverge so parents can weigh AI-tutor hype against the reality that most students decline Socratic help.
A federal judge said he is prepared to dissolve his July 1 order blocking a state oversight board from taking control of Memphis-Shelby County Schools.
A new Arizona State University study, issued as IZA Discussion Paper No. 18968, found New Mexico's universal child care program raised low-income mothers' labor force participation and employment by 18 percent while higher-income mothers reduced paid work.
The U.S. Treasury Department and IRS issued proposed and temporary regulations implementing the Education Freedom Tax Credit, the federal scholarship tax credit under Section 25F.
The first independent randomized trial of Khanmigo, an answer-withholding AI tutor, found Khan Academy helped modestly in math while the AI chatbot added nothing detectable over existing tools. Here is a calibrated reading of what the evidence does and does not show.
DJ Torres resigned from the Denver Public Schools Board of Education, where he represented District 3.
An independent, evidence-led look at a two-year randomized trial of Khan Academy's Socratic AI tutor Khanmigo: the practice software modestly helped struggling middle-school math students, but the AI layer added little, chiefly because most students declined to engage it.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show, responded to Nikole Hannah-Jones' New York Times essay on NYC school segregation, calling improvement of the public schools an urgent necessity while naming no concrete integration policies.
A working teacher's guide to using generative AI for lesson preparation, anchored in one of the first randomized trials of teachers using AI. The core finding: treat AI output as a rough draft to rewrite, not a finished product to hand out.
The Florida State Board of Education approved rules requiring public school districts, charter schools, and the state's 28 Florida College System institutions to adopt AI guardrail policies, including parental notification and opt-out, by July 1.
