Month: March 2026

Hot Takes on AI and Education

Each week during the football season, ESPN’s Dan Graziano pens a column that reacts to the most popular hot takes of the moment, judging whether they’re overreactions or on-point. It’s a useful device I’ve occasionally borrowed. Well, as readers know, the emergence of AI has produced a bonfire of hot takes about what it all means for education. Three an...

In the News: Teacher Professional Development – Many Choices, Few Quality Checks – by Education Next

Teachers in most states need to earn a certain number of professional development credits in order to renew their licenses, but as Stephen Sawchuk explains in Ed Week’s Teacher magazine, what we have today is “a bewildering array of providers offering education credits” and nobody in charge of ensuring quality. Sawchuk’s article looks at the range of opt...

In the News: New D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Should Protect This Crucial Program – by Education Next

The D.C. public school system will soon have a new leader. Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews urges the new chancellor to protect a successful program that supports teacher visits to the homes of their students to talk with parents. Almost no other school districts do this. The vast majority fear that teachers don’t have time for it and that it would cost too much and be too...