Alpha, which claims students can excel with two hours a day of AI-powered learning, hopes to reach 1 million students.

Playing a video game -- with occasional math or vocabulary questions -- now counts as homework.

Can schools teach creativity, collaboration and critical thinking -- and measure it?

Forty percent of Philadelphia students qualify as "graduation-ready" by passing easy online classes in low-value skills.

More students are completing high school, but fewer are prepared to learn a skilled trade or pass a college math class.

Fads drive education. Research on what works is shaky, and consultants always have buzzy new ideas.

Students should memorize and recite poetry. It will give them ownership of their culture -- and help think think.

Will Chicago's dual-credit students be prepared to succeed in college?

What's a diploma worth in Massachusetts? Without a state test requirement, graduation rates -- but not test scores -- are way up in Boston.

Bring back textbooks , write Sophie Winkleman and David James in The Spectator . In Britain, as in the U.S., schools have embraced online learning and "one-to-one" devices, they write. Students swipe and scroll between tabs, "some educational and some not," while the teacher tries to keep the class "on task." Textbooks "are slandered as boring compared with online resources, which offer video clips, audio, 3D modelling and other seductive 21st-century ‘essentials’," they writ

Achievement gaps are wide and growing wider, especially in traditional public schools, in the last 20 years.

When schools expect less, students do less and learn less. Try-hard students are even rarer.

Dual enrollment helps Texas students do well after graduation, but taking college-prep classes has no benefit, says a new study.

Inflating grades and dumbing-down tests is giving high achievers no way to show their competence.

In education, reliable achievement is far more important than peak performance, and far more rare."

Learning may not always be fun, but kids need to know it's worth the effort.

Students who receive good grades for mediocre work tend to learn and earn less in the long run.

Black fourth-graders in Mississippi, one of our poorest states, are two-and-a-half times more likely to be proficient in reading as black students in California.

Academic learning isn't obsolete, even in "the age of AI."

The "Portrait of a Graduate" fad is likely to be "so vague and insipid that they create a permission structure for schools to prioritize most everything except academics and to excuse themselves when they fail at their responsibility to teach even basic literacy and numeracy,"