Named after the hundred-eyed watchman of Greek myth, Argus watches the education landscape: spotting new opportunities, pressure-testing the ventures we're building, and tracing every read back to the real-world signals behind it.
The evidence library: the raw signals the pipeline is watching across the education ecosystem. Every idea is built from these.
Anthropic, one of the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence companies, is launching a version of its AI-powered assistant Claude for teachers, entering a race by technology companies to infuse AI into education. Anthropic boasts that its product can incorporate academic standards from all 50 states, and teachers can use it to help devise lesson plans, […]
K-12 administrators share how they’re navigating responsible technology use in schools when communities want less of it.
Family preferences on childcare arrangements vary, sometimes wildly, but many parents consistently report a desire to be able to care for their young children themselves and for trusted family, friends and neighbors to be able to do so. Childcare policy, though, has historically been designed without fully accounting for what families actually say they want. […]
Research suggests school closures disproportionately impact majority-Black schools. Community engagement and stakeholder trust are key, experts say.
Indiana K-12 schools must meet new standards before seeking approval to implement a four-day school week. The model, once favored by rural schools due to a shortage of bus drivers, is spreading nationwide to urban and suburban districts seeking to recruit teachers and students by extending the school day, so students and staff can take […]
Teachers should plan the tone and sequence of queries carefully while being prepared to adjust when called for, pedagogy experts say.
Some math educators want to see more pathways considered when weighing math achievement and looking to college admissions.
Picture a second grader who is struggling to read at a school trying hard to fix that. He gets his regular classroom lessons, is pulled out for intervention during the day and works with a tutor. On paper, he is a child surrounded by support. But here’s what it feels like from his seat. In […]
I run into a former student of mine, outside of school. “How are you, miss?” he asks. I respond in our native tongue, “Muy bien, ¿y tú?” We chat briefly about students from our class, and I ask about Camila — a silly ninth grader who always brightened our days. “Hay … la deportaron, miss,” […]
A positive behavioral interventions and supports model boosted attendance for one Rhode Island school significantly, an assistant principal says.
Jaleel is attending his first day of classes this month at a middle school opening its doors for the first time that specializes in air traffic control, commercial drones and engineering. His parents decided not to send him to the majority-Black, F-rated campus closer to their home in Fort Bend ISD. Still, they fear their […]
The lawsuit seeks to vacate the agency’s exclusion of advanced degree programs in fields like education, which caps student loans at $100,000.
Countless times over the last few years, district leaders have reached out to my organization with a problem: They rolled out a new evidence-based curriculum and trained all their teachers, but many didn’t use it properly — or at all — and the school saw only pockets of success. Talking through what happened, they inevitably […]
Three years ago, a handful of Maine school districts struggling with student mental health needs applied for a federal grant to help them hire school counselors and social workers. The grant applications included a commitment to hiring staff that represented their particular community and understood its needs. The grant — part of the Bipartisan Safer […]
Open-ended experiments that engage students with a “need to know” factor rather than a “cookie-cutter” approach are key, say veteran science teachers.
Bringing the technique into the classroom can expand conversations and provide students a layer of safety in responding, educators say.
Nearly 25 years ago, I walked into the U.S. Department of Education at what felt like a remarkable moment in the history of reading instruction. The National Reading Panel had just been released, and for the first time in my professional life, there was broad agreement that educational policy should be grounded in scientific evidence. […]
On the brink of looming insolvency, Los Angeles Unified could have prevented its financial crisis by leaving vacated positions empty, making thousands of district employee layoffs unavoidable to address a $3.6 billion deficit, a top state fiscal watchdog said. “They’re overstaffed significantly,” said Michel Fine, CEO of California’s Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team of […]
The model has become a popular school choice option post-pandemic, and calls for policymakers to give the sector more structure are growing.
A senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress breaks down how and why the nation’s third-largest district lost access to district-wide free meals.
About two-dozen Hoosier childcare providers and advocates overwhelmingly opposed looser statewide staff educational requirements during a Monday public hearing. “This is a profession. This is not just a babysitting job,” said Hanna Wetzel, the director of the Children’s Learning Center of Posey County. She spoke to representatives of the Family and Social Services Administration, the […]
Religious schools accepting public funds are required to follow Maine laws that protect against discrimination based on faith, gender identity and sexual orientation, a federal court has ruled. Crosspoint Church, which runs Bangor Christian Schools, and St. Dominic Academy in Auburn filed separate appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit […]
Local technology companies may have solved some of their biggest problems after hearing from North Carolina high school students during the annual Teamship Showcase in Durham on June 25. Teamship is an internship experience through the College Board where students are paired in groups to solve real-world problems for the businesses they are assigned to. […]
An American Bankers Association executive said more public-private partnerships and hands-on experiences are crucial.
Having students interpret visual art can strengthen analytical and interpretive skills for reading, veteran English educator Carol Jago says.
I have been a high school teacher for almost three decades, spending almost all that time teaching seniors about American civics. My teaching tenure has overlapped with the rise of the very trends now engulfing our educational system: I have watched my students embrace smartphones, social media, online learning and now artificial intelligence. But recently […]
The science of reading has largely won the policy debate. Over the last decade, state after state has embraced evidence-based reading instruction. Legislatures have passed literacy laws, and teacher preparation programs are (slowly) shifting their coursework. Those changes are paying off: According to national data from the DIBELS early reading screener, 30% of second graders […]
If accepted, a ruling could impact other cases challenging diversity efforts in major urban school systems, such as those in New York, Boston and Philadelphia.
The Center for American Progress warns that legislative cuts to safety net programs could prevent Community Eligibility Provision participation.
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said Thursday the state would provide an $800 credit and expedited admission processing for any of the hundreds of incoming Howard University freshmen who were abruptly told last week that they no longer had a place at the school. The governor said in a statement that he directed the Maryland […]
Three other bills aimed at protecting youth online also won approval Wednesday from the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.
Artificial Intelligence will soon help teachers rate students’ academic and “soft” skills at schools using nontraditional report cards that skip A-F grading after an AI company purchased the non-profit Mastery Transcript Consortium last month. The New York-based company Legend.org is developing AI tools to give teachers and students immediate feedback on papers, exams, recorded presentations […]
Roughly 2,000 families received offers for a spot in the inaugural year of 2-K, New York City’s new free childcare program for 2-year-olds, officials announced Tuesday. Around 5,700 families applied for the initial 2,000 seats, which were restricted to priority neighborhoods in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. “Today represents a monumental step on the […]
As Google AI overviews become the norm, educators should push students to dig deeper and do their own sourcing, a prominent school librarian says.
Through a summer institute, New York City’s Tenement Museum is providing “turnkey” ideas that make lessons more relevant to students, participants say.
A first grader reads an entire page on her own after months of specialized instruction. A middle school student with autism delivers his first classroom presentation. These moments are not medical breakthroughs, they are educational ones. Unfortunately, our history — and too often our present — shows that many students still do not experience classrooms […]
These adolescents face distinct hurdles, including frequent moves and parental deployments, not experienced by "civilian" teens.
As millions of kids across the country prepare to head back to school — and many have already returned — the national count of measles cases continues to climb, reaching its highest number in 35 years. Utah and South Carolina, which both allow for various exemptions to school-based vaccine mandates, carry most of the disease burden, accounting […]
School and community partnerships to improve pregnancy and STI prevention are under threat after HHS suddenly cut 53 of 66 existing grants.
In concert, state bodies governing public pre-K through Ph.D. students are implementing policies addressing safety and classroom use of artificial intelligence. Next week, the Florida Board of Governors, which controls Florida’s 12 state universities, will review language directing each campus to “establish policies requiring all course syllabi to include a disclosure of faculty use and […]
Ed tech leaders worry the one-year artificial intelligence ban in the nation's largest school system could have national implications.
California lawmakers agreed to a deal that will allow many survivors of childhood sexual assault at public institutions to continue to sue the public bodies they say are responsible for their trauma. The compromise released Thursday is a partial win for some victims’ advocates, who opposed capping the amount of damages a survivor could seek […]
Summer is an exciting time for NBA fans with a flair for analytics. The free-agency period has my news feed full of trades, signings and salary dumps. One aspect of professional sports leagues that has always fascinated me is the way they build in financial safeguards to increase competition. Education finance could learn a thing […]
Though the technology succeeds in evaluating students’ work for some components of critical thought, it falls short on others, research shows.
Laura Bornfreund opens her new book, “Rediscovering Kindergarten: Embracing Play & Joy in Kindergarten” by bringing readers inside her daughter Ainsley’s experience entering kindergarten in August 2017. The fact that Ainsley just started high school shows the long and thoroughgoing journey that the book represents. Bornfreund — a senior fellow at New America, where she […]
Still, 23 million children don’t have access to after-school programming and thus are missing out, an Afterschool Alliance report says.
The children’s author Mac Barnett does not pull punches when it comes to his chosen profession: “If you don’t think children’s books are real books,” he writes, “on some level you don’t think children are real people.” The author of more than 70 books, Barnett has become a key evangelist for high-quality children’s literature, particularly […]
A majority of respondents across the political spectrum want clear guardrails on technology use in classrooms, a Century Foundation survey shows.
Treat communications as safety infrastructure and work with IT departments to ensure systems work as needed, these experts say.