A researcher’s view on using AI to become a better writer

Writing can be hard, equal parts heavy lifting and drudgery. No wonder so many students are turning to the time-saving allure of ChatGPT, which can crank out entire papers in seconds. It rescues ...

Posted 2025-09-08 10:00:00

OPINION: As they face conflicting messages about AI, some advice for educators on how to use it responsibly

Back to School with AI When it comes to the rapid integration of artificial intelligence into K-12 classrooms, educators are being pulled in two very different directions. One prevailing media ...

Posted 2025-09-07 05:00:00

OPINION: AI can be a great equalizer, but it remains out of reach for millions of Americans; we cannot let that continue

Back to School with AI In an age defined by digital transformation, access to reliable, high-speed internet is not a luxury; it is the bedrock of opportunity. It impacts the school classroom, the ...

Posted 2025-09-07 05:03:00

OPINION: Schools cannot teach AI literacy without a way to measure it

Back to School with AI Everywhere you look, someone is telling students and workers to “learn AI.”  It’s become the go-to advice for staying employable, relevant and prepared for the ...

Posted 2025-09-07 05:05:00

A largely invisible role of international students: Fueling the innovation economy

PITTSBURGH — Saisri Akondi had already started a company in her native India when she came to Carnegie Mellon University to get a master’s degree in biomedical engineering, business and ...

Posted 2025-08-31 05:00:00

A gender gap in STEM widened during the pandemic. Schools are trying to make up lost ground

IRVING, Texas — Crowded around a workshop table, four girls at de Zavala Middle School puzzled over a Lego machine they had built. As they flashed a purple card in front of a light sensor, ...

Posted 2025-09-05 05:00:00

Landmark free preschool program reaches too few kids

In the 1980s, a public interest law group sued the state of New Jersey, saying that the way it funded education left its low-income, urban school districts at a disadvantage compared to ...

Posted 2025-09-04 05:00:00

Nation’s Report Card at risk, researchers say

This story was reported by and originally published by APM Reports in connection with its podcast Sold a Story: How Teach Kids to Read Went So Wrong. When voters elected Donald ...

Posted 2025-09-04 05:00:00

Colleges struggle to make manufacturing training hot again 

ELYRIA, Ohio — Nolan Norman had no idea what microelectronic manufacturing entailed when his adviser at Midview High suggested he take the school’s new class on it last year.  Yet once he ...

Posted 2025-08-27 05:00:00

State preschool program helps kids catch up — but many are missing out 

This story about Abbott districts was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger ...

Posted 2025-09-02 05:00:00