Computers in School

In 2019, when West Virginia passed legislation that allowed for the creation of charter schools, it represented yet another feather in the cap of the school-choice movement. Nearly three decades after the creation of the very first publicly funded, privately managed school, in Minnesota, charters now educate more than 3.3…

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine‘s Abstractions blog.Computer scientists are trying to build an AI system that can win a gold medal at the world’s premier math competition.Photograph by Valerie Kuypers / AFP / Getty ImagesThe 61st International Mathematical Olympiad, or IMO, began yesterday. It may go down in history for…

Erin Richards USA TODAYPublished 4:06 PM EDT Jun 29, 2020In his suburban New Jersey home-turned-classroom this spring, parent Don Seaman quickly found himself in the role of household vice principal.While his wife holed up in the bedroom to work each day, Seaman, a media and marketing professional, worked from the family room where he…

SAT Reasoning Test The SAT is a standardized test for most college admissions in the United States. The SAT is owned, published, and developed by the College Board, a nonprofit organization in the United States. It was formerly developed, published, and scored by the Educational Testing Service which still administers…

Audrey Watters on 21 Jun 2020 read I gave this keynote this morning at the ICLS Conference, not in Nashville as originally planned (which is a huge bummer as I really want some hot chicken) As I sat down to prepare this talk, I had to go back into my…

Minneapolis seemed full of opportunity when Roxxanne O’Brien moved there in 1987. She was just a kid, but her mother, a teacher, had heard that the school system was stellar and that it was looking for Black teachers. There was some racism then, sure—a neighbor forbade her son from playing…

“We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if…

Budrul Chukrut/Getty Images For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. Comcast is extending through the end of the year its free Internet Essentials program to provide broadband service to low-income households with students. Comcast initially offered 60 days of free internet service to…

By Gerald C. Koinyeneh Monrovia — A pro education organization, Enrich the Mind Foundation (ETM) in response to the closure of school due to the COVID-19 pandemic has developed a workbook for students of the Matilda Newport Junior High School. The workbook is designed to keep students learning while they…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — After a knock on his door, third-grade student Jamie-Lee emerged to see his school principal smiling at him from his doorstep. She held out her arms, offering a socially distant “air hug,” and told the boy how much she’d missed him since the pandemic closed their…