Millions of student loan borrowers like myself haven't made a student loan payment since March 2020. However, with the end of the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan imminent, I'm making ...
Jessica Lifshitz noticed a shift in the writing stamina of her fifth graders in recent years. Students weren’t connecting to text-heavy personal narratives in the way that they used to. She couldn’t ...
Anne Paonessa is the author of Essential Connection Skills (Corwin, 2025) and founder of ConnectED Classrooms: Picture this: A student sits at their desk, staring at a math problem that seems ...
Technology is a big part of my students’ days. They use computers to watch videos, log in to learning management systems, collaborate in class chats, and figure out how to use the latest innovation: ...
I once had a student who used AI to generate several of his assignments. The first assignment in my class is an ethnography paper in which students discuss the culture they most identify with and the ...
More states are mandating personal finance courses for high schoolers, but what if their teachers aren’t confident managing money themselves? In recent years, states have pushed to ensure high school ...
Academia is a high-stress, high-surveillance environment. Faculty are asked to do more with less: more students, more reporting, more unpaid labor — and less time, less support, and less say in ...
People have nightmares of AI-powered killing machines turning our world into a robotic dystopia. But a less-bloody yet equally striking transformation is already under way — one in which ...
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Full-time student teaching is required to complete a teacher preparation program in Pennsylvania, but for a long time it has been unpaid. That creates a major barrier for many who want to enter the ...