NZ's draft science curriculum favors rote learning over critical thinking

Research and practice over the past several decades have revealed that a truly knowledge-rich science curriculum encompasses ...
Education Week

When Older Students Can’t Read: How This Middle School Is Tackling Literacy

Loralyn LaBombard is the only reading specialist at Bow Memorial School, a middle school serving grades 5-8 in a leafy town ...
News-Register

Head of nonprofit school finds flaws in how Oregon students are taught to read

The Oregon Journalism Project What Went Wrong? Oregonians believe in public education. And we put our money where our values ...

Mississippi pilots new program to support adolescent literacy

In a Moss Point school conference room, teachers took on the role of students — reading, discussing and analyzing a ...

Care packages and cardstock turkeys: first and second ladies visit Marines and their relatives

Their day includes activities with military-connected students as well as remarks from both women to service members and ...
Wall Street Journal

Large Language Models Get All the Hype, but Small Models Do the Real Work

There’s a paradox at the heart of modern AI: The kinds of sophisticated models that companies are using to get real work done and reduce head count aren’t the ones getting all the attention.