Financial Literacy Is Required For Hawai‘i Grads. Are Schools Ready?
This article was originally published in Honolulu Civil Beat.At Pearl City High School, teacher Tammy Yoon is determined to teach students the basics of personal finance.…
How to write a check.
How to calculate interest on a car loan.
How to run a cost-benefit analysis on whether to attend college.
Parents Demanding Tech Opt Outs Take Their Fight to Federal Court
Parents pushing back against technology in the classroom have so far directed their anger toward major corporations like Google and Curriculum Associates, the company behind the widely used i-Ready platform.…
But the “techlash” took a turn last week when seven families in a Phil…
The 8,500-student Lower Merion School District adopted a new technolog…
17 that limits the use of devices in elementary school and doesn’t ass…
AI Tutors Not Yet a Replacement for Humans, Research Says
Updated September 3, 2026 Wendy Graham’s two kids first encountered Amira, a popular artificial intelligence tutoring platform, in 2025, during a summer reading program in New Mexico.…
She also used it at home with her daughter, now a fourth grader.
But she found that the purple-haired avatar with the big, round glasse…
When she stumbled over “usually,” the “learning agent” wanted her to r…
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…
“We are always having to respond to determine, when new technologies c…
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…
It’s frustrating because that approach never lasts; it’s a temporary b…
3-Year College Degrees Grow More Popular in the U.S., Saving Time and Cash. But Critics Aren’t Sold
This article was originally published in The Associated Press.Giles Sims, 34, was sick of getting passed over for jobs because he didn’t have a college degree.…
But with a wife and a widowed mother to help support, he needed a quic…
So the laid-off web developer turned to one of a growing number of thr…
“I can’t afford to be out of the workforce for four years.
Superintendents Want Schools to Change. New Study Examines Why It Doesn’t Happen
Walk into a public high school in New England, and it will likely look largely the same as it did 50 years ago: a bell schedule, class periods for each academic subject, students sorted into regular and honors tracks, teachers teaching a single subject, students generally compliant, passive and very bored.…
They still distribute opportunity, resources and credentials to differ…
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‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ ‘Goodnight Moon’ and the Case for Picture Books as Great Art
The children’s author Mac Barnett does not pull punches when it comes to his chosen profession: “If you don’t think children’s books are real books,” he writes, “on some level you don’t think children are real people.…
” The author of more than 70 books, Barnett has become a key evangelis…
As the Library of Congress’s ninth National Ambassador for Young Peopl…
And Barnett scored a rare feat for a children’s book author, this spri…
Laura Bornfreund opens her new book, “Rediscovering Kindergarten: Embracing Play & Joy in Kindergarten” by bringing readers inside her daughter Ainsley’s experience entering kindergarten in August 2017.…
The fact that Ainsley just started high school shows the long and thor…
Bornfreund — a senior fellow at New America, where she previously was …
In her book, she digs into the history of kindergarten and how it’s ch…