Luis Melecio-Zambrano GILROY, Calif. — In Gilroy Prep’s eighth-grade math class, there are no quiet rows of orderly desks facing an instructor. Instead, the room feels less like a classroom and more like the floor of a stock exchange, with the constant buzz of conversation as students sketch slopes and equations on tablets that project their stylus strokes onto nearby … [Read more...] about At this middle school, students teach each other. Is this new model the future of education?
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Blowing past the warning signs: The teacher morale crash is here
Paul DiPerna and Colyn Ritter If you follow education policy at all, you’ve probably heard about the looming “fiscal cliff.” As pandemic-era federal support runs out, school districts that used temporary funding to create permanent initiatives are going to fall over it. But American K-12 education appears to be in the midst of an immediate and menacing development: A … [Read more...] about Blowing past the warning signs: The teacher morale crash is here
In defense of helicopter parents
Mary McNamara I recently saw a headline in The New York Times that I thought was the answer to my prayers: "Anxious Parents are the Ones Who Need Help." Yes, please, I thought, hoping to find acknowledgment of all the very real forces that can turn any parent into an anxious mess. Things like school shootings, worsening teen mental health, the ongoing debate over the … [Read more...] about In defense of helicopter parents
Your child’s favorite teacher may soon be a chatbot
Tyler Cowen Most students have a favorite teacher. In the future, could that teacher be… a chatbot? The answer depends in part on whether AI succeeds in becoming the next great educational technology innovation, or joins the long list of ed-tech disappointments. Two kinds of AI-driven education are likely to take off, and they will have very different effects. Both … [Read more...] about Your child’s favorite teacher may soon be a chatbot
LTE: The School Committee should focus on education, not signs
Regarding the issue of signs on school property. What do signs have to do with higher standards of education and test scores for our students? Celebrating diversity is part of education. Free expression in a supportive way is a gift of freedom of speech. For the School Committee to step in and micromanage what signage is on school property is ridiculous. Controlling signs on … [Read more...] about LTE: The School Committee should focus on education, not signs