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What Would a Blue Wave Mean for Education? (opens the original)
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Midterm elections are often tough for the party that controls the White House. That’s especially true for Republicans this year, with inflation up and Trump’s poll numbers way down. Signs of a potential blue wave are evident in the generic ballot and projections for key races. Five weeks from Election Day, betting markets predict that Democrats will claim both houses of Congress. Last week, Nate Silver marveled, “Poll
What Do Parents Look for in a School? (opens the original)
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The school choice explosion has lent new urgency to the question of what information parents need when choosing schools. Well, GreatSchools has been working on that challenge for more than a quarter century. The site offers in-depth profiles of over 150,000 public and private schools, and it offers more than a million parent and community school ratings. Earlier this year, GreatSchools partnered with Oklahoma to launch the state’s new School Choice Hub, an AI-powered platform that can help paren
In Search of Common Sense (opens the original)
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I just finished a new book with USC’s Pedro Noguera. (It’ll be out next April.) It’s got me reflecting on how odd the education discourse has gotten. But let me back up a bit.In 2020, Pedro and I penned our book A Search for Common Ground. It consisted of a back-and-forth correspondence that played out while the nation was paralyzed by Covid-19 and rocked by the killing of George Floyd.Thanks for reading Rick Hess On Education! Subscribe for free to receive new posts
Ed Tech’s 5% Problem (opens the original)
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Educators have a lot of questions about AI. As do I. Well, when I need practical takes on ed tech, I turn to the ever-thoughtful Michael Horn—lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, co-founder of the Christensen Institute, co-host of the Future U podcast, and author of many books, including Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools. As school leaders weigh a new crop of AI tutors and math programs, I asked Michael why the results appear to be so uneven—and what can be
Schools of Distraction (opens the original)
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The pushback on AI and data centers is widespread and real, but parents seem a lot less worried about the devices that have overrun their kids’ classrooms. For all the attention to the recent Meta litigation and the push to ban cell phones in schools, parents haven’t urged educators to resist the cascade of ed tech represented by Chromebooks, iPads, Canvas, i-Ready, and Kahoot. If anything, they have
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