As the researchers analyzed how students completed their work on computers, they noticed that students who had access to AI or a human were less likely to refer to the reading materials. These two groups revised their essays primarily by...
Young kids practice cognitive accommodation all the time. Think of a toddler whose only experience with dogs is the family’s small Shih Tzu. One day, the child meets the neighbor’s Great Dane. Wow! The child’s mental concept of “dog” quickly...
Cuts to STEM education dominate NSF grant terminations Source: Grant Watch, May 7, 2025 https://grant-watch.us/nsf-summary-2025-05-07.html More than half the terminated grants… … and nearly three-quarters of their $1 billion value are in education Data source: Grant Watch, May 7, 2025....
While media literacy can seem politically charged, its core goals are widely shared. Words like “fake news” or “misinformation” may raise alarms, but “everyone wants kids to be knowledgeable, thoughtful, critical thinkers,” said Higgin. He cited data from Media Literacy...
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said with their skill sets and the amount of time they dedicate to their jobs, public school teachers could earn about 24% more than their current pay working in non-teaching jobs in the...
Officers at the research associations described the complex calculations in suing the government, mindful that many of them work at universities that are under attack by the Trump administration and that its members are worried about retaliation. “A situation like...
And many parents, including myself, make a second mistake about pornography. They don’t actually understand what these videos portray. Violent, degrading, misogynistic videos “Parents often think children are looking at softcore pornography, like Playboy centerfolds,” Flood says. But pornography today...
“It’s been amazing,” says Fialkiewicz of the difference that federal money — and the social workers it paid for — have made in his school community. He says he was shocked when he heard the Trump administration was putting an...
“This could not have come at a worst time for millions of Americans,” said Aissa Canchola Bañez, Policy Director for the Student Borrower Protection Center, a nonprofit group that aims to reduce student debt. Those borrowers, she added, “are already...
The board didn’t provide an official explanation for its moves. But the vice chair, Martin West, a Harvard professor of education, said in an interview that the cuts were an effort to save the 2026 assessments. “A moment of reckoning...
