Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the past few years, what marketers and venture capital firms term “artificial intelligence” but is more often an advanced predictive text model of some
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Software Defined Retro ROM Makes 8-bit Easy
Reading Time: 2 minutesLike the rest of us, 8-bit hardware is not getting any newer, and failed ROMs are just a fact of life. Of course you can’t
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A Feast Of 1970s Gaming History, And An 8080 Arcade Board
Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes a write-up of a piece of retrocomputing hardware goes way beyond the hardware itself and into the industry that spawned it, and thus it
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Large Public Libraries Give Young Adults Across U.S. Access to Banned Books
Reading Time: 8 minutesYoung adults are finding it harder to borrow books reflective of their lived experiences in their schools and public libraries. It isn’t because these stories
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Supreme Court Ruling Highlights Continued Power Struggle Over LGBTQ+ Books in Schools
Reading Time: 4 minutesA Supreme Court ruling at the end of June handed a major victory to parents who want to opt their children out of lessons that
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Block by Block: The Student Skilling Journey
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs technology reshapes the workforce, digital and AI literacies are becoming essential for every student. From early problem-solving to advanced AI skills, learners build critical
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Could Podcasts Fix Screen Time Woes for Children?
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs Deborah Nichols traversed from Kansas City to Lawrence, Kansas, daily for her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Kansas, her preteen son in the
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An Edtech Pioneer Considers the Mixed Record of Her Field
Reading Time: 6 minutesWriting a history that you helped to create is awkward, as Anne Trumbore acknowledges in her new book “The Teacher in the Machine: A Human
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Inside a New Partnership to Help Schools Keep Students Safe Online
Reading Time: 5 minutesSchools increasingly find themselves on the front lines of managing the ripple effects of students’ online lives — from digital distractions that interfere with learning
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Why I Left the Classroom to Build a School Black Children Deserve
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’m entering my fifth year as the founder of a microschool, a small learning environment that currently serves approximately 20 students. After five years, this
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Forget Prestige. A New Ranking Shows Great Colleges May Be Close to Home.
Reading Time: 5 minutesFiguring out the best colleges is big business. College rankings stay in the headlines for weeks after each release, and schools proudly tout their positions
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Can the Most Populous State Pull Off Universal Pre-K?
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhen Wendy Lundeen began teaching transitional kindergarten over a dozen years ago, it was seen as an unconventional option to help prepare children to one
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