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Pandemic relief money paid for a big expansion of high-impact tutoring in schools. That money is gone, and districts now face a hard question: how to keep a tool proven to help students. Some districts have already cut back. Others have found ways to keep tutoring in place, but the school day is not getting any longer, and every change to a program has a cost.

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For generations, schools have rewarded the correct answer, the polished essay and other finished products of learning. Now that artificial intelligence (AI) can effortlessly write the papers and produce the results that used to come only from high achievers, what does “high achievement” mean? And which student behaviors should be rewarded?

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The transition from pre-K to kindergarten can be overwhelming for many children, as they face longer school days, more structured learning and trickier social dynamics. In one study from Ohio State University, kindergarten ...

For several years, federal pandemic relief funds helped school districts across the U.S. expand “high-impact” (or “high-dosage”) tutoring programs that improved student learning. Now that the main source of funding has expired, many education leaders are scrambling to keep those programs afloat. 

Between March 2020 and March 2021, Congress

AI tools can now generate a lesson in seconds, and the result usually sounds convincing. But teachers and district leaders still lack a reliable way to confirm that generated content aligns with state standards or what research says about how students learn. Learning Commons, a nonprofit backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, believes it has built that missing foundation t...