From book challenges to school board policies, Moms for Liberty’s new AI tool could change how organized campaigns target public education.

When school librarians are already facing censorship, harassment, and threats, the last thing we need is to tear one another down.

Students need to understand AI. But we need to talk about what happens when literacy becomes a substitute for accountability.

The warnings are getting harder to ignore. The challenge for educators is helping students separate what we know from what we fear might happen.

When protecting students from difficult subjects becomes avoiding the very history schools are supposed to help them understand.

New reporting on its high school Bootcamp raises much deeper questions about what we are willing to call learning.

If we replace Chromebooks with dittos, we have not necessarily improved teaching. The real question is whether the tool supports good pedagogy.

A new policy for nearly 600,000 students raises an important question: Do students need to use generative AI to become AI literate?

When AI becomes a delivery system for school, the question is not only how students learn. It is who decides what they are allowed to learn.

A federal court ruling in Arkansas has implications far beyond one state. Here's what happened, why it matters, and why librarians across the country should be paying attention.

Texas has adopted one of the nation's most comprehensive state-mandated literary works lists in recent decades. What happens next could shape the future of curriculum across the country.

The values-based framework every school librarian should know.

Stop the Senate Book Ban Bill The Federal Government shouldn't decide what your children are allowed to read.

Parents have long had rights. The real question is what these policies actually change.

Whether your district lost its librarian this year or fifteen years ago, here's where I would start.

Know your policies. Trust your process. Be prepared.

Before Schools Follow This Path, We Need to Talk!

If we are serious about solving the literacy crisis, we have to change how we advocate for school libraries.

This is the fourth federal education bill I've written about in just a few months. I don't think that's a coincidence.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft are all investing in educators. Here's why teachers have become one of the most important audiences in artificial intelligence.

Part 5 of 6 - What's Missing?

Part 4 of 6 - Test the Answer

The memes are funny. The conversation they started is one libraries still need to have.

Everyone is talking about the literacy crisis. After reading The Atlantic's recent article, I couldn't stop wondering why one part of the story keeps getting left out.

Part 3 of 6 - The Evidence Behind the Answer

Part 2 of 6 - The Answer We Expect

Part 1 of 6 - The Conversation Shapes the Answer

Part 6: What Every School Should Be Asking About AI

Part 5: Teaching Students to Question AI

Part 4: The New Digital Divide

Part 3: Who Gets Represented by AI?

Part 2: The Myth of AI Neutrality

Part 1: AI Didn't Invent Bias. It Learned It.

A landmark legal decision in a German Court, raises new questions about accuracy, accountability, and trust in AI-generated content.

What happens when the first stop for learning is a chatbot instead of a teacher, librarian, or parent?

As AI-generated images, videos, and voices become increasingly convincing, schools face a critical question: who will teach students

Alpha School’s rapid expansion raises bigger questions about AI, homeschooling loopholes, student data, accreditation, and who gets to decide what counts as education.

President Trump's new AI executive order is a step, but its voluntary framework raises larger questions about whether the United States is serious about AI governance.

What does a federal research funding proposal have to do with libraries, AI, journalism, and information access? More than most people realize.

Why autonomous AI agents, AI radio stations, and “digital arson” experiments should become part of AI literacy education now.

In a world telling young people what to think, a librarian who hands a kid the right book at the right moment is a radical act.

Why the newest federal education bill deserves far more attention from educators and librarians

What ALA got right, what it didn't address, and why librarians need a seat at the table as AI enters library spaces.

What educators and librarians need to understand about the bill’s broader implications for schools, curriculum, and information access

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical places artificial intelligence at the center of a global conversation about human dignity, misinformation, labor, democracy, and the future of education.

PACs, lobbying campaigns, advocacy groups, and political messaging are already shaping the future of AI before most people realize it.