In Huntsville, Alabama, home to one of the nation's largest cybersecurity hubs, educators and industry professionals are rethinking what cybersecurity education can look like.…
Rather than separating classroom instruction from workplace experience…
At the Madison County Schools Career Technical Center, cybersecurity i…
The “October Blues” Are Coming. Here’s How Teachers Can Beat Them.
It’s not uncommon for teachers to experience what Ellen Moir, founder of the New Teacher Center, calls a “disillusionment phase” shortly after the start of the school year.…
Other educators call this phenomenon by a different name — the “Octobe…
”The October Blues affect teachers who find themselves in an emotional…
New York and Los Angeles Ban Student-Facing AI (For Now). Should Other Schools Follow?
Within the first three days of September, three announcements regarding young students’ access to generative artificial intelligence (AI) made national headlines.…
2, New York City announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing gen…
Later that day, Los Angeles Unified School District announced the impl…
This week, two educators trace what happened after a student said something that could have been dismissed as attitude but turned out to be something else entirely.…
One teacher heard it in the middle of a lesson on irony.
The other heard it in a planning meeting for a brand new program.
Stitching the Future: Technology as a Sacred Trust
In an era where artificial intelligence promises to archive human culture at the touch of a button, Indigenous communities face a vital question: Who has the right to own, shape, and digitize sacred knowledge?…
Long before AI became a headline in education, this question fundament…
But understanding how to protect our community’s digital future didn’t…
Microsoft just released the third edition of its AI in Education Report, surveying more than 3,000 students, educators and leaders across six countries.…
Ira Apfel sat down with Pat Yongpradit, general manager of global educ…
Pat Yongpradit on Adoption, Trust and CheatingYongpradit walks through…
The Language Barrier Is the Real Barrier in Edtech
When I started looking closely at the learning platforms schools ask families to use, I noticed something easy to miss if it doesn’t affect you: almost all of them are built in English first.…
For families who speak Spanish at home, that one fact quietly changes …
A child might be able to follow along in class, but the parent often c…
Early Childhood Education Teachers Grapple with Screen Time
When the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its guidelines around screen time for children and teenagers for the first time in 10 years this past January, many teachers and educators applauded the news.…
The document focused less on television and more on digital devices.
It offered educators, families, pediatricians, and other stakeholders …
Artificial intelligence has wreaked havoc across secondary and higher education classrooms, leaving educators struggling to figure out how to create cheat-resistant assignments and assessments.…
While everyone is good at diagnosing the problem, no one seems to have…
So I designed a free tool to help teachers create uncheatable assessme…
New findings from Turnitin highlight the growing leadership role of teachers integrating artificial intelligence into the classroom, the demand for education-specific AI solutions, and the importance of guiding students toward using AI as a tool for learning rather than a substitute for thinking.…
Based on data gathered during the first half of 2026 and an analysis o…
Educators say they found parallels from the data with their schools’ a…
The Library That Sparked a STEM Revolution for Our Students
For years, as a library media specialist, I took great pride in my role as guardian of the 20,000 books in our library, meticulously cataloging and protecting our collection.…
But after dedicating nearly two decades to education, I came to a vita…
I’ve seen firsthand how easily innovation can get reduced to a one-tim…
Reading Scores Continue to Drop for Many Middle Schoolers
For the most part, public school students have made significant strides in returning to subject proficiency levels from before the pandemic, according to a new study by NWEA.…
But a disturbing exception is the lowest-achieving students in middle …
The NWEA study finds that, not only have reading scores not stabilized…