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The number of students using public funds to enroll in private school or pay for home-school expenses has been growing rapidly following a wave of state policies that have launched new private school choice programs or expanded existing ones.Their impact on academics and public school enrollment, though, remains far from clear—partly a result of how hard it is to study the diverse array of programs.To date, 18 states have programs on the books that make virtually all their students eligible for state funding to use on private school tuition or home-school expenses, according to an Education Week analysis. And every…

Zach Boren, RCEducation For the better part of a year, the Trump Administration said little about apprenticeships.

Many adults are breathing a sigh of relief as the 6-7 meme fades away as one of the biggest kid-led global fads of 2025. In case you managed to miss it, 6-7 is a slang term – spoken aloud as “six seven” – accompanied by an arm gesture that mimics someone weighing something in their hands. It has no real meaning, but it spawned countless videos across various platforms and infiltrated schools and homes across the globe. Shouts of “6-7” disrupted classrooms and rained down at sporting events. Think pieces proliferated. For the most part, adults responded with mild annoyance…

Is Your LMS Using AI Responsibly? If you walked into a corporate training space ten years ago, you’d probably encounter a familiar scene: a trainer with a deck of slides, a group of employees politely taking notes, and a traditional LMS quietly tracking who completed what. Walk into that space today, and you might be greeted by a chatbot welcoming learners, a personalized dashboard adjusting in real time, and a predictive engine identifying who might need support before the day even begins. AI has completely redrawn its boundaries. Yet, even as automation unlocks new possibilities, a deeper question emerges: How…

Education technology—including school districts’ 1-to-1 computing initiatives—impedes students’ ability to learn and offers a portal to platforms that harm children’s mental health, experts told lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee during a Jan. 15 hearing on technology’s impact on kids.They urged policymakers to rein in schools’ use of digital devices and platforms, including those for educational purposes, and restrict student cellphone use at school. “It doesn’t matter what the size of the screen is—if it’s a phone, if it’s a laptop, if it’s a desktop,” said Jared Cooney Horvath, a neuroscientist and co-founder of Learning Made Easy, an educational consulting…

Education Week Staff Writer Caitlynn Peetz Stephens served as moderator of the Jan. 8 panel discussion described below among the four finalists for AASA’s National Superintendent of the Year award. School district leaders are making contingency plans for federal funds that could be stripped by President Donald Trump’s administration in its quest to “return education to the states” and cut down on equity and race initiatives, according to the four finalists for the 2026 National Superintendent of the Year.The contingency plans include advocating for state lawmakers to help offset any potential or anticipated funding cuts and ensuring they can prove…

Matthew Yglesias, Slow Boring The “Southern surge” is great, but it’s just four states.

If your kid is a junior, you’re in a really unique moment. You have something most families don’t realize is valuable until it’s gone: time to plan instead of react. Right now, before applications take over, before campus tours create emotional attachments, before deadlines compress everything into panic mode, you have space to have calm, grounded conversations about what college will actually look like for your family. Not just academically or socially, but financially. Most families skip these conversations in junior year because it feels too early or too uncomfortable. Then they’re having them in senior year under pressure, with…

When will high school English teachers stop assigning the wrong books? When will they stop assigning novels that are neither accessible nor interesting to most high schoolers?Take The Scarlet Letter, for instance. It starts like this: A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among…

Remainder. Product. Algorithm. Ordered pair.Seemingly jargony words and phrases like these, referring to specific math concepts, might seem complex for elementary school students to grasp. But teachers who use them regularly are more likely to boost student math scores, new research finds.The paper is one of the largest-scale studies to examine this practice—and it draws a link between specific instructional moves and teacher effectiveness. The study, from researchers at Harvard University, the University of Maryland College Park, and Stanford University, used natural-language-processing techniques—a form of artificial intelligence—to analyze more than 1,600 transcripts of 4th and 5th grade math lessons from…