There is a lot of concern these days about what type of curriculum is—or is not—being taught to schoolchildren. “Curriculum…
It’s hard to believe that it was only a bit over a year ago that ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI)…
The earliest documented cases of dyslexia, or a language processing disorder that makes it difficult to read, date back more…
From the outside, the headquarters of Alcove Learning looks like any small home in the largely Latino Boyle Heights section…
As more parents gain the opportunity to abandon a compulsory schooling assignment for other options, including homeschooling and microschooling, it’s…
Those of us who have homeschooled for years are accustomed to periodic calls for greater regulation of homeschooling. Whether it’s…
When Massachusetts passed the nation’s first compulsory school attendance law in 1852, parents were mandated to send their children to…
It’s back-to-school season and some parents aren’t happy about that. Take the example of Rousmery Negrón, a single mom of…
I think that Milton Friedman would be happy. I can’t know for certain, as the Nobel Prize-winning economist passed away…
The latest data dump from the Nation’s Report Card reveals declining academic performance among US students. As with previous releases…
Americans have soured on public schools. That’s the takeaway from Gallup polling results released earlier this month showing that Americans’…
My 16-year-old daughter just got her first part-time job, working at a local coffee shop. She comes home beaming after…
The K-12 district schools I went to while growing up in a Boston suburb look nearly the same today as…
It was a cool, muddy morning in March when I pulled into the empty parking lot of a sprawling forest…
A teenage boy is scrolling through his Instagram account one night. He notices that a friend has posted a distressing…