The Thomas B. Fordham InstituteOpinion

Is the technology in your classroom advancing or diminishing student capabilities?

This essay is an entry in Fordham’s 2026 Wonkathon, which asked contributors to answer this question: “What rules should ...
The Thomas B. Fordham InstituteOpinion

We raised the bar for curriculum. Let’s not let technology undo that progress.

This essay is an entry in Fordham’s 2026 Wonkathon, which asked contributors to answer this question: “What rules should ...
Colorado Public Radio

More students are mixing online and in-person classes. At CU Denver, their motivations vary.

About a third of students were taking at least one online course before the pandemic. Now, more than half across the nation do, and a similar trend has played out at the University of Colorado Denver.

As an Oregon community mourns 4 killed in school shooting, 2 wounded survivors remain hospitalized

A special-needs teacher and student wounded in a deadly shooting at an Oregon elementary school remained hospitalized ...

It took just 3 minutes. How the Bend school shooting unfolded

A teen killed three children and a teacher in an Oregon elementary school before being shot by a bystander, police say.
Main Street Media of Tennessee

Dickson County Schools First in State to adopt Leader in Me District-wide

In July 2026, the Dickson County School Board unanimously approved using Franklin Covey's Leader in Me curriculum districtwide. That decision makes Dickson County Schools the first district in ...
Kotaku

Horror School: The Classroom

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Horror School: The Classroom Say hello to the eerie world of “Horror School: A Scary School Simulator Story,” a first person anime horror game set in an ...

Parent claims child was abused in MNPS special education classroom

Brenna Kraus discovered alarming allegations from former MNPS special education teacher Amelia Cato that students in her son’s classroom were being abused by paraprofessionals at Dodson ...
The New Yorker

Should the Classroom Be More Like the Gym?

When I’m in New York, I take spin classes on the Upper East Side. The students—it’s a class, after all—pack into a dark, humid room. The music is loud. The air reeks of effort. When the black light ...
The New Yorker

What We Lost When Big Tech Took Over the Classroom

Over Labor Day weekend, Springfield Public Schools, a district in western Massachusetts that serves twenty-three thousand students across some sixty schools, fell prey to a cyberattack that shuttered ...
CNN

Nation’s largest school district bans AI in the classroom through 8th grade

New York City is banning the use of generative artificial intelligence for public school students from 2K through 8th grade, part of a larger move to restrict classroom technology in the nation’s ...
People

4th Grade Teacher Goes Viral for Creating a ‘Fart Corner’ in Classroom to ‘Keep the Funk in One Area’ (Exclusive)

“The response has been overall very optimistic and most people find it amusing, which I am absolutely grateful for,” Valecia Broussard tells PEOPLE Valecia Broussard Texas teacher Valecia Broussard ...