In her every-other-week private counseling appointments with teenagers, Seattle-based therapist Emily Irwin will often ask "what's on your heart? What's on your brain?" "And they'll be like.... ‘uh, I forget, I forget what happened,’” Irwin recounted.
While it's been an issue for years, public school enrollment issues have worsened since COVID, forcing school closures as we near the end of pandemic relief funding. In one state's case, researchers are forecasting a decline of over half a million students by the 2031-32 school year.
Orchard View Middle School's project-driven, small group learning experiment aims to make students' transitions from elementary to middle school more seamless and academically engaging.
Gov. Jared Polis wants to fully fund schools for the first time since 2009 by getting rid of a fiscal tool state lawmakers have used to reduce education funding, according to his proposed budget for 2024-25.
Based on recent student interviews about absenteeism, young people at Summit High School are missing class most often because of sickness or mental health issues, family responsibilities, transportation problems and work obligations.
“I saw those scores and I was elated,” said Jessica Goode, principal of Emery High School. “All the work we’ve done has paid off. It’s been a challenge—there’s no road map because almost no one’s ever done this successfully.”
Considered by some to be "a demon unleashed" while other consider it "a panacea for education's myriad challenges," AI's impact on schools is only going to grow as learning platforms become more adaptive, teachers work to further personalize instruction and leaders seek more administrative efficiencies in running their districts.
