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Over the shoulder view of child (8-9) using a pencil to practice handwriting the letters of the alphabet in cursive script

The 25 states still requiring kids to learn cursive

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Charter school is replacing teachers with AI

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How to talk to your ‘skeptic’ family about science misinformation

By Lauren Leffer

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This is your brain. This is your brain on screens.

By Jill Barshay / The Hechinger Report

Students testing ChatGPT AI tutor on computers

A version of OpenAI’s GPT-4 will be ‘teaching’ thousands of kids this fall

Copy of Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' behind glass case

School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books

A notebook with Spanish verb conjugations, written probably in the process of learning two languages simultaneously

You should learn two languages at once

By Amanda Svachula

space shuttle endeavour blasts off

What it takes to display a 176,000-pound space shuttle in a launch configuration

Student at desk doing math homework during COVID-19 lockdown.

US schools aren’t ready for another pandemic

By Katherine Reynolds Lewis/Undark

Coping advice from people with the world’s most stressful jobs

Coping advice from people with the world’s most stressful jobs

By Rob Verger, Erik Olsen

Kids dressed in bright raingear during a forest school class in Sweden

Young kids learn the realities of climate change in forest schools

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Volunteer astronomers bring wonders of the universe into prisons

By Briley Lewis

Person lying on couch covering their face with a book about Spanish grammar

Learning a new language? Here’s how to perfect your pronunciation.

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Born of eugenics, can standardized testing escape its past?

Born of eugenics, can standardized testing escape its past?

By Deborah Blum / Undark

A young girl feeding a brown-and-white goat over a wire fence on a farm.

7 ways to support a kid who wants to care for animals

By Noah Lederman

Close up of library books on shelf

In school districts that ban books, e-readers offer a workaround

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Ransomware hackers hit a massive Los Angeles School system over the weekend

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The Opt Out: School devices are sharing your family’s data, but you can stop them

By Karina Montoya

How a ‘digital twin’ of an Apache helicopter could help keep these old birds flying

How a ‘digital twin’ of an Apache helicopter could help keep these old birds flying

Not a math person? Duolingo wants to help.

Not a math person? Duolingo wants to help.

By Charlotte Hu