4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (844+ words) Seemingly jargony words and phrases like these, referring to specific math concepts, might seem complex for elementary school students to grasp. But teachers who use them regularly are more likely to boost student math scores, new research finds. The paper…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (855+ words) Algebra 1 is considered the gateway to advanced math, leading to heated debates about course timing: Unprepared students shouldn’t take it too soon and risk failing, but higher-achieving students will miss out on high-level math courses if they delay. New research…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (582+ words) When teachers face physical and verbal aggression in their classrooms, it shakes their trust in the profession. They don’t feel safe, don’t trust their administration, and often, don’t know how to continue teaching students who were their aggressors. Violence against…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (602+ words) If a teacher uploads detailed lesson plans to her school’s AI-based curriculum tool, could her work or her students’ data end up training the next model? Often, teachers have no way of knowing. “We can get angrier and angrier, or…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (692+ words) A new survey shows educators feel confident they can integrate teaching about AI into their instruction, and most parents believe schools are ready to teach about the technology. A survey commissioned by IBM and conducted by Morning Consult of 1,019 educators…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (755+ words) A new kind of story has made its way into elementary school classrooms, joining the books in classroom libraries and the passages in early reading curricula: AI-generated text. Tools designed for educators to use can rewrite articles to different reading…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (889+ words) Scores from a major international test of 15-year-olds, released on Tuesday, showed a steep decline in United States’ teenagers’ reading abilities—and have already prompted education leaders to dissect potential causes and speculate on how to turn the trend around....

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (523+ words) I’m tired of having to babysit you. The word “fidelity” was listed in Education Week’s top-10 abhorrent buzzwords of 2022 and 2023. Frequent fidelity-checking can leave teachers with a variety of feelings: confusion over what is being assessed, frustration that the intended…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (344+ words) Personalized learning through AI tutors is touted a lot by ed-tech proponents. But is anyone buying what they are selling? Michael Pershan is a math teacher who writes about teaching at pershmail.substack.com: A decade ago, Bill Gates invested…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (159+ words) Rick: Michael, you’ve got a new book out titled Unshakable Leadership. Tell me about it. Rick: Who is your target audience? Rick: For those who’ve read your previous works, what’s different about this one? Rick: Early on, you devote a…...