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The Washington Post: Schools are teaching AI— and making a massive mistake Read more ↗
After Babel: AI Can’t Fix Student Engagement Read more ↗
Brookings: AI’s future for students is in our hands Read more ↗
Great Schools: The dark side of achievement Read more ↗
Great Schools: What to do when kids are resisting school Read more ↗
Great Schools: What to do when kids coast at school Read more ↗
The New York Times: Parents, Your Job Has Changed in the A.I. Era Read more ↗
Brookings: What happens when AI chatbots replace real human connection Read more ↗
Brookings: Generative AI is coming for our students, and now is the moment to shape it Read more ↗
Brookings: Why we need a minimalist mindset when it comes to AI and tech use for young people Read more ↗
The Atlantic: The Teen-Disengagement Crisis Read more ↗
Brookings: Cutting education is an ‘America Last’ not an ‘America First’ approach Read more ↗
Brookings: Imagining failure to attain success: The Art and Science of Pre-Mortems Read more ↗
New America: How to Activate ‘Explorer’ Mode in Today’s Kids — And Stave Off the Disengagement Crisis Read more ↗
Carnegie Foundation: Engaging Minds, Changing Futures: A Deep Dive Into Student Engagement and Learning Read more ↗
Boston Globe: How to Rescue Teens from Educational Burnout Read more ↗
T4 Education: Solving the Crisis of Student Disengagement: Interview with Rebecca Winthrop and Jenny Anderson Read more ↗
Scary Mommy: Here’s A Whole New Way to Talk to Your Teens This Year Read more ↗
The Hechinger Report: OPINION: Parents Have Way More Influence Than They Realize in Shaping Their Children’s SuccessRead more ↗
Oprah Daily: Here’s Why 50% of Gen Z’ers Say They Feel Unprepared for Life After CollegeRead more ↗
Brookings: Coaching Kids to be Better Learners: An Interview with Rebecca Winthrop and Jenny AndersonRead more ↗
Brookings: The Disengagement Gap: Why Student Engagement Isn’t What Parents ExpectRead more ↗
New York Times: Giving Kids Some Autonomy has Surprising ResultsRead more ↗
Brookings: The World Needs a ‘Premortem’ on Generative AI and Its Use on Education Read more ↗
Education Reimagined: Why All Kids Need More Time in Explorer ModeRead more ↗
Education International: The three ways all teachers can improve student engagement Read more ↗
Brookings: Why families and communities are essential to education system transformationRead more ↗
Brookings: Why play is serious workRead more ↗
Brookings: Kick back, relax, and help your children develop neural pathwaysRead more ↗
Brookings: The dueling parents’ rights proposals in Congress: What the evidence says about family-school collaborationRead more ↗
Edelman: Solving the trust equation in schoolsRead more ↗
Brookings: Learning to Live Together: How education can help fight systemic racismRead more ↗
Brookings: The Need for Civic Education in 21st Century SchoolsRead more ↗
Brookings: The top 5 insights for improving family-school collaboration during COVID and beyond Read more ↗
Brookings: Collaboration to transform and improve education systems: A playbook for family-school engagement Read more ↗
Brookings: The next decade of education transformation: 5 reports to spur debate and discussion Read more ↗
Brookings: Transforming Education Systems: Why, what, and how Read more ↗
Brookings: School supplies, critical race theory, and virtual prom: A social listening analysis on US educationRead more ↗
Brookings: Unleashing the creativity of teachers and students to combat climate change: An opportunity for global leadershipRead more ↗
Brookings: Beyond reopening schools: How education can emerge stronger than before COVID-19 Read more ↗
Brookings: Addressing education inequality with a next generation of community schools: A blueprint for mayors, states, and the federal governmentRead more ↗
Brookings: Selling civic engagement: A unique role for the private sectorRead more ↗
Brookings: I moved a drone with my mind: Soon your students will too Read more ↗
Brookings: We studied 3,000 new education ideas: Here’s how to choose the bestRead more ↗
Brookings: Why wait 100 years? Bridging the gap in global educationRead more ↗
Brookings: Could Pope Francis be the world’s most important education advocate Read more ↗
Brookings: A day on community mobilization for girls’ education with first lady Michelle Obama Read more ↗
Brookings: Conversation Starter Tools: A Participatory Research Guide to Building Stronger Family, School, and Community Partnerships Read more ↗
Brookings: Skills for changing world: Advancing quality learning for vibrant societiesRead more ↗
Brookings: Imagining playful learning landscapes in every community Read more ↗
Brookings: 5 traps that will kill online learning (and strategies to avoid them)Read more ↗
Brookings: The bucket list for involved citizens: 76 things you can do to boost civic engagement Read more ↗