The most AI-advanced school districts are using the technology to improve instructional practices, not reinvent them.

Texas law has mandatory consequences when any campus achieves five failing grades in a row—the state must either close the offending campus or take over the entire school district.

Simply by listening and imitating, a second language can feel as natural as one's first. Learning how to read in two languages is a bit more complex.

A few months ago, an elementary interventionist told me her district had tightened student screen time limits. She was trying to ensure students completed their Tier 2 math intervention within the new 45-minute weekly cap. The intervention required logging in to one platform for lessons, then another for progress monitoring. Literacy ran on yet another. […]