As colleges scramble to write rules for artificial intelligence in the classroom, one basic question remains unknown: How many students are actually using it? An anonymous survey of 338 undergraduates at the University of Chicago shows that the answer may be hard to pin down — not just because AI use is changing quickly, but […]

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Absenteeism is a huge and seemingly intractable problem for the nation’s public schools. And Michigan has one of the worst attendance rates in the country. That makes it a prime target for researchers. In hundreds of schools, more than 3 out of 5 students were chronically absent before the pandemic. When classes resumed, chronic absenteeism […]

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In the past decade, student achievement has stagnated or declined around the world as cellphones have become nearly ubiquitous Gen Z and Gen Alpha accessories. Educators from Florida to Sweden to Rio de Janeiro are responding with an increasingly popular tactic: restricting or banning cellphone use during the school day. But the first wave of […]

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It seems like a tale of two school systems. Washington, D.C., has emerged as the fastest-improving school system in the nation, according to a major new analysis of student test scores released last week by researchers at Stanford, Harvard and Dartmouth. The Education Scorecard analysis, which compares more than 5,000 school districts across 38 states, […]

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Career “pathways” have become a big idea in high school reform. The goal is to give all students a structured sequence of courses in a career field, along with early exposure to the workplace and opportunities to build practical, job-related skills. Many aspects of these programs are similar to the curriculums at traditional vocational schools. […]

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