A sweeping U.S. Supreme Court interpretation recognizes a First Amendment right to opt out of classroom lessons that pose a "very real threat of undermining" sincerely held religious beliefs. The ruling has school districts and their attorneys scrambling to review curricula and refine protocols for excusing students from certain material.
A recent graduate writes that it's time to make AI and financial literacy as central to education as math and reading. Because the future is already here.
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Among the biggest beneficiaries may be middle-income families, whose earnings are well above the poverty line but had strained to cover private school tuition without an infusion of public funds.
You might see Superintendent Jeanne Siegenthaler shoveling snow, serving lunch or helping custodians clean her district's single building during the summer. She's also in charge of social media.
Historically, few students could jump ahead, and most who did were from schools with few low-income students. Chicago Public Schools is trying to make the policy more equitable.
The creators of ChatGPT are joining forces with the American Federation of Teachers to train 400,000 K12 teachers to champion AI instruction in their classrooms. Microsoft is also contributing.
