Sal Khan has suggested that AI in education could eventually boost student learning two standard deviations—vaulting the average kid to the 98th percentile—citing a study from 1984. The challenge: this study has rarely if ever been replicated. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
New: Teacher turnover remains significantly elevated in many places, although it's dipped from its peak in 2022, according to data from ten states I compiled www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
A fascinating and somewhat disturbing look inside the obscure but high-stakes legal fights over special education services. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
A California case exemplifies the rising legal disputes pitting school districts against parents seeking assistance for their children under federal law.
New: Teachers, teenagers, and parents have significantly overlapping views on how schools should — or should not — teach about controversial topics. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
New: There is a lot of excitement about the potential of AI in education. This vision faces a big challenge, though: AI is notoriously bad at math. This was apparent when I recently tested Khanmigo, a popular ChatGPT-powered tool used in some schools now. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...
Khanmigo, a ChatGPT-powered bot, made frequent calculation errors during a Journal test.
are you aware of data supports the second claim?
New: The SAT and ACT are down but hardly out. Most colleges are no longer requiring them, but many high schools still are. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Easy to find people talking about tutoring's power to help students in COVID's wake. Not necessarily so easy to pay for it once COVID relief goes poof if you're a local school district. www.chalkbeat.org/2024/02/01/h...
Ditching after-school tutoring programs or cutting lesser-used reading and math apps are two ways schools could find money to put toward in-school tutoring.
Two things are true: There were unusually large test score gains between '22 and '23 (relative to historical test score trends), but they were not nearly sufficient to close pandemic-era learning loss. educationrecoveryscorecard.org/wp-content/u...
