From Smiley v. Jenner, decided yesterday by Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Scudder, joined by Judges Candace Jackson-Akiwumi and Doris Pryor: Indiana law establishes curriculum requirements for certain ...

Direct instruction sometimes gets a bad reputation. But it can be more than the teacher lecturing at the front of the room. As an inquiry-based educator, I use aspects of direct instruction to give ...

For years, K–12 technology conversations revolved around what to adopt next — the newest device, the latest platform, the next big promise. But as district leaders enter 2026, the question has ...

Differentiated instruction is a teaching approach that actually understands students aren’t all wired the same. It recognizes that learners have different styles, strengths, challenges, background ...

A 3-cycle action research on modular instruction employing the Community of Inquiry framework overarching the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) model, revealed the need for assessments in addition to the usual ...

Lesson planning is one of those areas where you can truly make the best of AI. As someone who’s spent hours crafting detailed plans, adapting materials, and trying to meet every student’s need I know ...

School-choice policies are sweeping the nation, offering parents—many fed up with the status quo—the chance to choose the learning environments that work best for their children. Since the Covid-19 ...

In his thought-provoking book, Brave New Words, Sal Khan discusses his early experimentation with generative AI, or GenAI, models and how, over time, they might change education. If AI is a new ...

In my first full year of teaching in 2010, I was coached on the merits of the “I Do, We Do, You Do” approach to math instruction, a form of direct instruction. Each lesson started with a hook to pique ...

Erin's Law is a law that requires public schools to teach child sexual abuse and exploitation prevention classes to students in kindergrten through eighth grade. New York State signed Erin's Law into ...

Despite rising school enrollment, global learning levels are stagnant. In 2024, we find ourselves over the halfway mark towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 4 of Quality ...