Instead, institutions moved on. “We essentially aged out of it,” said Levine, speaking at the American Enterprise Institute in January about higher education’s challenges. “Pretty soon the people who were home weren’t in college anymore. It’s a relatively short number of years.” There were innovations. In what we would now call remote learning, colleges expanded…
Recent data suggests educators may be embracing AI more than they’re eschewing it, like Bond has. Roughly 60% of surveyed teachers said they used AI at least a little in their classroom, according to a July 2025 poll from the EdWeek Research Center. Initially, Bond says she tried to incorporate AI into her teaching. She…
For decades, economists could rely on a comforting graph about happiness over a lifetime: It followed a U-shape, like a smile. Young people were carefree and happy. Middle age was rough but joy returned again in old age. This wasn’t a flimsy finding. More than 600 academic papers, published from 1980 to 2020, documented this…
After the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision banning affirmative action in college admissions, the Trump administration suspected that colleges might covertly continue to give racial preferences. To police compliance, the White House directed the Department of Education to collect detailed admissions data from colleges nationwide. The data collection was unusual not only in its scope, but…
Artificial intelligence has already entered K–12 classrooms, whether schools are ready for it or not. From lesson planning and grading to essay writing and research, AI tools are changing how teachers teach and how students learn. Some educators see endless possibilities for innovation, while others worry that these same tools could weaken students’ ability to…
Whole milk is heading back to school cafeterias across the country after President Donald Trump signed a bill Wednesday overturning Obama-era limits on higher-fat milk options. Nondairy drinks such as fortified soy milk may also be on the menu in the coming months following adoption of the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which cleared…
School mental health programs faced rapid whiplash after President Donald Trump’s administration abruptly canceled up to $2 billion in mental health and addiction treatment grants this week, only to reinstate them the next day. The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration notified thousands of grantees late Jan. 13 that it had terminated their…
The number of students using public funds to enroll in private school or pay for home-school expenses has been growing rapidly following a wave of state policies that have launched new private school choice programs or expanded existing ones. Their impact on academics and public school enrollment, though, remains far from clear—partly a result of…
Education technology—including school districts’ 1-to-1 computing initiatives—impedes students’ ability to learn and offers a portal to platforms that harm children’s mental health, experts told lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee during a Jan. 15 hearing on technology’s impact on kids. They urged policymakers to rein in schools’ use of digital devices and platforms, including those…
Education Week Staff Writer Caitlynn Peetz Stephens served as moderator of the Jan. 8 panel discussion described below among the four finalists for AASA’s National Superintendent of the Year award. School district leaders are making contingency plans for federal funds that could be stripped by President Donald Trump’s administration in its quest to “return education…
