The lesson of LEACHIM, a 1970s classroom robot, isn't that machines should replace teachers. It's that every child deserves to be taught at his or her own level—and technology is now making that possible.
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. […]
The National Assessment of Educational Progress, the nation’s leading assessment tool, will expand in 2028, giving states the opportunity to use the tests to address student achievement and inform learning practices.
The answer starts with recognizing that our most powerful educational tool isn't technology. Rather, it's the one thing machines can never replicate: human curiosity.
