Recently I placed an empty cardboard box in the center of my preschool classroom of 4-year-olds. No label. No instructions. No purpose given. A few years ago, that simple box would have instantly ...

First, it was no phones in schools. Now, amid the debate around edtech, schools are looking to go screen free.

A premature baby, a pandemic and new pediatric research reveal why the screen-time debate is more nuanced than simply counting minutes.

In a system serving nearly 1 million students across more than 1,800 schools, the distance between a central office cubicle and a second grade classroom in New York City Public Schools can feel ...

Educators have seen wave after wave of “innovative” solutions promise to address long-standing challenges — from personalization and engagement to ...

A college student says she was falsely accused of cheating, and her story has gone viral. Where is the line between acceptable help and cheating with AI? When Marley Stevens posted a quick video on ...

Aggressive. That’s the word that comes to mind when assessing the pace of change promising — or threatening, depending on your point of view — to sweep through education at the top of 2026. To help ...

Lesley Allen will never know what triggered her final panic attack last fall. She was outside supervising a group of students during a mask break at her middle school in South Berwick, Maine, when she ...

Movers removed bookshelves from Almeda Elementary in Houston in May 2024 in preparation for a “team center,” part of the campus transformation under the New Education System. HOUSTON — On a Saturday ...

This story was produced in partnership with The 19th, an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy. Hayley Leibson, a mother from Mill Valley, a wealthy area just north ...

Laura VanBlaricum trims a plastic container at the Vantage Plastics facility in Standish, Michigan. Through an arrangement between her employer and the state, VanBlaricum only pays one-third of the ...

It became a routine as familiar as going to lunch or picking up a child after school. Each day started with students logging online and listening as a teacher taught through a screen instead of at the ...