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J’Nyah is like most high school juniors – she scrolls through TikTok, posts on Instagram for her friends and keeps up with social media pop culture via YouTube videos about influencer updates. But she doesn’t take anything online too seriously.…
Teaching is nearly impossible to do when students aren’t paying attention, especially when there are distractions like smart phones, other students and hallway banter. It’s easy to get frustrated, but Andrew Watson wants to shift the blame away from students.…
Timothy Shanahan, a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has spent his career evaluating education research and helping teachers figure out what works best in the classroom. A leader of the National Reading Panel, whose 2000 report…
A financial aid expert at CollegeAdvisor answers a parent’s burning question.
A leader of the Education Finance Council outlines the best ways to save – and pay – for college.
Should your child submit their scores to test-optional schools? Unfortunately, the answer involves math.
In 2017, psychologist and researcher Jean Twenge published iGen, a book about the first generation to grow up with smartphones. An excerpt in The Atlantic ran under the headline, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” which drew some backlash for sounding…
These top fashion designers didn’t always attend fashion school or study fashion design.
Anish Mehta, a computer science engineer, grew up in a culture that he said did not address mental health concerns even when he knew he could have benefitted from therapy. So when he was searching for a new edtech business…
Thirty states now limit or ban cellphone use in classrooms, and teachers are noticing children paying attention to their lessons again. But it’s not clear whether this policy — unpopular with students and a headache for teachers to enforce —…