When uneducated minds change the education system, by Owei Lakemfa

LLMs and performative productivity

Jim Nielsen's Notes, Jim Nielsen's Notes, Jun 24, 2026 It's as though people believe there's a learning 'off switch' (though it only exists in other people). Like this: A junior who made a mistake is one step closer to being a senior; a junior who let an LLM make a mistake (and had the LLM fix it for them) has probably learned nothing. What would justify this conclusion, authored by John Collinsworth (Nielsen doesn't link to it, though he quotes it extensively - boo, hiss)? The junior will still learn, but will learn a different thing. Nobody 'learns nothing' - human brains don't shut off like light bulbs. What's really happening here is that we're mking a value judgement, specifically, that the lesson learned from doing it by hand is more important than the lesson learned by doing it with AI. This Web: [Direct Link] [This Post]

College students are no longer smarter than a fourth grader [Sad]

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Arkansas LEARNS Act a model of education reform for Kansas

As Kansas student outcomes continue to plummet in real terms, Arkansas’ three-year-old LEARNS Act has shown remarkable improvement with proficiency gains in reading, math, science and English language arts. LEARNS is an acronym: LITERACY, EMPOWERMENT, ACCOUNTABILITY, READINESS, NETWORKING, and SCHOOL SAFETY. How did Arkansas do it? Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders told Fox News: “We did a comprehensive approach to [] The post Arkansas LEARNS Act a model of education reform for Kansas appeared first on The Sentinel.

Revealed: The VCE subjects students are dropping in year 12

New data shows which subjects students are abandoning between year 11 and 12, providing insights into their strengths, interests and career preferences.

Let’s Mark America 250 with a Civic Education Revival

Let’s Mark America 250 with a Civic Education Revival

A Study Relationship Begins To Fray As One Friend Feels Overworked And Unappreciated

It's the student's responsibility to pass. The post A Study Relationship Begins To Fray As One Friend Feels Overworked And Unappreciated appeared first on TwistedSifter.

परीक्षा सकिएको एकहप्तामा नतिजा सार्वजनिक

वागमती। बागमती विश्वविद्यालयले विश्वविद्यलायअन्तर्गत सञ्चालित तीनवटा संकायको पहिलो सेमेष्टरको परीक्षा सकिएको एक हप्तामा नतिजा सार्वजनिक गरेको छ। विश्वविद्यालयले समय सापेक्षा गुणस्तरीय शिक्षासँगै परीक्षा प्रणालीलाई पनि प्रभावकारी बनाउँदै परीक्षाफल समयमा नै प्रकाशन गर्ने लक्ष्य अनुरुप परीक्षा सम्पन्न भएको सातौं दिनमा तीनवटै संकायको पहिलो सेमेष्टरको परीक्षाफल प्रकाशन गरेको विश्वविद्यालय संरक्षक समितिका अध्यक्ष प्रा.डा चन्द्रमणि पौडेलले जानकारी दिए। []

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Curriculum Associates CEO Kelly Sia recently defended her company’s flagship i-Ready platform to Fordham readers. The program, used by millions of students, has come under fire from teachers, parents, and students as part of an ed-tech backlash sweeping the nation. To set the record straight, Sia stated that Curriculum Associates “welcome[s] honest scrutiny of our research.” She then pointed to a large correlational study out of Georgia State University that evaluated i-Ready use in one large Read More

Letters: A clear and structured curriculum will help raise academic achievement

Letters: A clear and structured curriculum will help raise academic achievement

Teacher shares how one interaction with a student led her to change her entire curriculum

I sat there and tried to speak openly about how I could never fully understand and went home and cried. The post Teacher shares how one interaction with a student led her to change her entire curriculum appeared first on Upworthy.

Communism, the Bible, and Personal Financial Literacy to Be Taught in Texas Schools

The Texas State Board of Education passed new measures, which were endorsed by Heritage Action, for K-8 schools that reaffirm the teachings of American history, Western values, Christianity, personal financial literacy, and the downsides of communism. The measures, which include teaching stories referenced in the Bible, will clearly paint the picture of America’s founding history...

Mississippi Focuses on Boosting Middle School Students’ Reading Scores

Fourth grade literacy gains earned Mississippi national acclaim. But that achievement tapers off as students advance to higher grades. Lawmakers are putting millions toward changing that. Mississippi has seen the least progress across subject areas in eighth grade reading scores, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and performs near the bottom compared to []

When the Record Doesn’t Follow the Learner

When the Record Doesn’t Follow the Learner quintina.barne Thu, 06/25/2026 - 03:00 AM What practitioners running prison education programs reveal about a failure that affects all learners. Byline(s) Quintina Barnett Gallion

‘Braver Angels really helped me to see the humanity in people from the other side’: One high schooler’s journey to better political conversations

Written Gabriella Kearns, Senior Fellow for Civic Storytelling and originally published on Braverangels.org (Mixed bias).Mia Dougherty has always been interested in politics.nbsp;“From the very beginning I wanted to talk about issues. Even when I was in first grade, I remember I did this announcement on the intercom about why people should save the environment and be vegetarian,” she said. “Which is hilarious, because I’m not even vegetarian now.”nbsp;Clearly open to changing her mind, Mia was ahead of the curve when it came to having productive political conversations. There was just one problem: “Kids my age didn’t really want to have the depth of discussion I always wanted to have,” she said. So, when she was just ten years old, her mom enrolled her in Braver Lens, a Braver Angels program that explored the political divide through photography. Here, she was talking to people she never could’ve imagined.“When we met, they showed their pictures, and explained their life stories, and

Education Dept. Issues Final Rule Tying Federal Student Aid to Graduates’ Earnings

“If a program cannot show that it leaves its graduates financially better off than if they had never enrolled, it should not be underwritten by federal taxpayers” The post Education Dept. Issues Final Rule Tying Federal Student Aid to Graduates’ Earnings first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

PRINCIPAL VOICE: Our off-track high school students weren’t terribly interested in school until we dug into hands-on learning

As a former teacher and now school leader, I know nothing is worse than missing the mark with your students. It is both disillusioning and frustrating to know that you are failing to provide them with the necessary tools to drive their own learning. It was this realization that convinced me that something needed to [] The post PRINCIPAL VOICE: Our off-track high school students weren’t terribly interested in school until we dug into hands-on learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

Local stories show demand for change in school patronage

Here, our Education Correspondent Emma O Kelly takes a look at the key takeaways from the survey on school patronage and the realities facing schools which may wish to change to multi-denominational.

ISTE Live 26: The Youngest Tech Team You’ll Ever Meet

Lynsy Curry gave some students in her class a mission — if they chose to accept it. The elementary media specialist at Timbers Elementary School taught the fifth graders technology tips a couple of years ago when she was their teacher. When they began showing other teachers what they learned in her class, she asked them if they would be interested in forming a technology team and being her student helpers. Challenge accepted. Click the banner below to find classroom modernization tools for your district. The tech team was born in the Humble Independent School District in Humble, Texas,

Zohreh Mehrnia: English Learning Is No Longer Limited to the Classroom

Zohreh Mehrnia, an English language teacher and translator, believes that today’s learners complete a major part of their learning journey through digital content, and that effective education happens when this content is combined with practice, repetition and planning. A few years ago, learning English was mostly associated with classrooms, textbooks and printed notes. Today, however, []

AI Is Overhauling the Way Professors Teach. Here's How.

Embrace it or reject it, the tool is forcing faculty to change the way they teach.By Beth McMurtrie For both adopters and resisters, the disruption is huge.

Educators share challenges, wins from 2025-26 school year

The 2025-26 school year presented educators with challenges such as declining student attention, classroom technology concern -More-

Linda McMahon Pretends She Cares About Sexual Deviants Being Punished

I guess as long as it's a teacher and not her husband, she's fine with it. Education Sec. Linda McMahon (who like most in the Trump administration, has no business being in that job in the first place) made an appearance on Fox's Saturday in America with Kayleigh McEnany, and actually managed to sit there with a straight face and pretend she is concerned about young people being exposed to sexual deviants. Here are her remarks after first bashing the teachers' unions and touting Mississippi as one of the states the rest of the country should be looking to for education reform. MCMAHON: One of the letters that I sent, excuse me, yesterday was about schools that are not taking action against teachers that have sexual misconduct charges against them. One stat that just astounded me was that one out of ten school students across the country have some sort of sexual misconduct against them, but treated, perpetrated on them by teachers or by school staffs. And what happens? read more

Raising the Standards

Texas is on the verge of a major education victory. The State Board of Education (SBOE) is expected to vote tomorrow on adopting improved Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards for social studies and the state’s first required literary works list. These proposals address two subjects that Texas students have largely struggled with in... The post Raising the Standards first appeared on Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Why teachers unions just said no to $6.5 billion for America’s failing students

Last month, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers sent a letter to the nation’s governors urging them to reject the opportunity to generate billions of additional dollars for K-12 education from the new Education Freedom Tax Credit. This followed a letter from 33 state teachers union leaders that also urged governors []

Differentiation Made Doable: The Teacher-led Station in the Station Rotation Model

Today’s classrooms are beautifully diverse. Students bring a wide range of skills, abilities, language proficiencies, learning preferences, and interests with them into the learning environment. While this diversity is a strength, it also makes whole-group, teacher-led, one-size-fits-all instruction problematic. Too often, teachers are given a curriculum that is designed this way, and as a result, [] The post Differentiation Made Doable: The Teacher-led Station in the Station Rotation Model appeared first on Dr. Catlin Tucker.

Ray Dalio was a ‘below average’ student who got into investing by caddying for Wall Street traders: Now he hires talent who have experienced hardship

“What I find quite often is the case is that that student who did really, really well—and in remembering all the things that they’ve learned and so on—hadn’t gone through anything like that, [and] may not be the most inventive, may not be the most determined.”