There’s a growing push to use AI to teach faster. These tools are fast, but shallow. They fail to capture the nuance, care and complexity that deep learning demands.
The year I co-taught world history and English language arts with two colleagues, we were tasked with telling the story of the world in 180 days to about 120 ninth graders. We invited students to ...
Research evidence for two education issues that have come up in the New York City mayoral election: gifted education and small class sizes.
As states brace for less federal money, some are cutting child care spending to balance their budgets. Experts warn these cuts will be disastrous for families and the economy.
And after more than five decades, New York’s experience offers a case study in how elusive it can be to identify children as gifted before they even start school.
When I was a kindergartner in the 1980s, the “gifted” programming for my class could be found inside of a chest. This story also appeared in Slate I don’t know what toys and learning materials lived ...
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Male loneliness is climbing as male reading and writing scores drop. Are these trends correlated, and if so, can reading help address loneliness?
Young men in America today are feeling lonely and socially isolated. They are not going to college, entering the workplace or going on dates as often as young men did in prior generations. In my years ...
In a new book, researcher Timothy Shanahan argues that giving students easy texts is holding back US reading achievement ...
Adrian Torres’ obsession with race cars began when he was 11 years old. He got hooked watching a YouTube video of someone ...