The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

In an era when artificial intelligence increasingly shapes decisions in education, its critical to examine how these technologies impact historically marginalized communities. AI offers both promise and peril, and parents have the power to drive this change. By engaging with schools, collaborating with their communities and advocating for transparency and inclusivity, they can ensure that AI serves as a tool for empowerment rather than exclusion.

Advocacy 68

Advocacy Cultures High School Research 68

Living Geography

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

This new book by Rob Cowen is coming out in April and looks to be excellent. I have spent a good chunk of my life driving up and down the A1, particularly certain stretches at certain times in my life. The stretch between Newark and the M18 near Doncaster is a stretch I've driven along probably 1000 times. I used to cycle down it in my youth, to Clumber Park near Nottingham/Worksop.

History 52

History 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

BATON ROUGE, La. Alcide Simmons said he has only one word to describe what it was like for his daughter, Brooke, as she struggled to spell and read: torture. Spell duck, Brooke, Simmons recalled. And it would be, P, C, K, something, no matter how many times. His wife, Leslie Johnson-Simmons, said she saw her creative, smart and chatty daughter retreat into herself as she tried to learn to spell like other first graders in her class at a private school in Louisiana.

Charter School 84

Charter School Education Private School K-12 84