Students across the country are still struggling. This makes it all the more essential for parents to play an important, active role in their child's academic journey.

New guidance from the makers of ChatGPT includes insight from educators who are already using generative AI to enhance learning and streamline tasks as well as some example prompts you can copy and paste directly into the chatbot and try out yourself.

The big picture is that kids at every grade are still behind where they would have been without the pandemic. All three reports look at student achievement in the spring of 2019, before the pandemic, and compare it to the spring of 2023. A typical sixth grader, for example, in the spring of 2023 was generally scoring much lower than a typical sixth grader in 2019.

The announcement, sent in an electronic message to parents in some Cobb County schools on Monday, comes days after the Republican-majority school board voted 4-3 along party lines to fire a teacher for reading a book about gender identity to fifth-grade students.