AI guardrails should protect important mental work

Educational traditionalism is not the same as political conservatism.

From two veteran educators -- one a Montessori teacher and the other a cognitive scientist.

In Los Angeles, individual letters about student growth barely changed families’ decisions. But when enough parents got them, choices shifted — and students benefited.

A New York State course intended to help educators use phonics and the science of reading effectively doesn’t do so and could impede students’ progress, literacy experts say.

Two champions of knowledge-rich instruction reflect on its current momentum

Many parents think the school years matter most for neurological development, but a UVA expert says the biggest gains start much earlier.

Socializing at a young age helps to develop greater diversity in children’s microbiota, according to an analysis of baby-to-baby transmission of gut bacteria.

How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report.

The New Yorker article “Alphabet Soup” (Dec 29/Jan 5 issue) did a good job of conveying the complexity of dyslexia, the frustrations of dyslexics and their families, and the promise of schools such as...

Experts (and everyone else) have theories but no definitive answers just yet.

A small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful AI platforms.

In one of the most bizarre, brilliant, and unexpectedly wholesome musical experiments of the year, Swedish musician and YouTuber Mattias Krantz has done the unthinkable: he spent six months teaching a...

The biomedical research engine will create more breakthroughs — if we keep it up and running.

Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

"Learn Your Way" Shows Promise but Has a Way to Go