Roundup of new research on explaining answers, building knowledge, reading instruction, social media and the conditions under which AI helps students learn.

The fast-growing private-school network is handing much of instruction over to artificial intelligence. Researchers say the science is far from settled

Retrieval practice is a continuity feature not a classroom activity

This is the twelth in a series of AI in Education specials, where I speak to the world’s leading experts about how AI is changing teaching and learning.

Every Ohio public school district must adopt an artificial intelligence policy by July 1, 2026.

"the dry rudiments of the beautiful science of reading"

"the dry rudiments of the beautiful science of reading"

The most-cited AI-in-education paper gets retracted, retrieval practice hits a wall under high cognitive load, and a little knowledge turns out to be worse than none at all.

YouTube video by TheDeptofEducation

AI tutoring will work when it stops pretending to be human

Cognitive surrender, borrowed competence and the "vast counterfeiting of knowledge"

YouTube video by American Enterprise Institute

Why great fiction can explain us better than we can explain ourselves

Why great fiction can explain us better than we can explain ourselves

YouTube video by Tips for Teachers

A disease that was once a death sentence is increasingly treatable

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

New evidence suggests the standard dual process story undersells intuition

A reflection on the recent Education Endowment Foundation research into mixed attainment teaching in KS3 mathematics, exploring evidence, methodology, educational rhetoric, intellectual honesty, and t...

Suspensions have risen in primary schools but fallen in secondaries. Here, education leaders tell Tes what they think is behind the contrasting trends

Retrieval practice works best as maintenance of meaningful learning, not its creation.

Retrieval practice under scrutiny, feedback's missing mechanism, AI that actually teaches, and the quiet erosion of cognitive effort