Education Week

How the ‘Science of Reading’ Can Support English Learners

English learners are sometimes an afterthought in 'science of reading' policies. Some educators want to change that.
The New York Times

‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education’

Students are already using A.I. to learn and write. The education policy expert Rebecca Winthrop explores the big questions emerging for educators and parents. This is an edited transcript of an ...
Los Angeles Times

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
New York Post

6 in 10 teachers use AI to grade papers, write lessons — but say it’s making their students stop thinking

For her 6th grade honors class, math teacher Ana Sepúlveda wanted to make geometry fun. She figured her students “who live and breathe soccer” would be interested to learn how mathematical concepts ...
Yahoo

Google's top AI scientist says ‘learning how to learn’ will be next generation's most needed skill

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google's artificial intelligence research company DeepMind, right, and Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis discuss the future of AI, ethics and democracy during an event ...
Los Angeles Times

Parents, chill: Why you don’t need to teach your 3-year-old to read

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...