Families are increasingly choosing online public schools, even as research has raised concerns about their academic results.

Researchers found that simply giving students access to a capable AI tutor did little to ensure they used it for learning. More structured use of the technology showed greater promise.

A new paper traces how family income, test scores, and educational spending rise together — leaving the least advantaged students in the least-resourced colleges.

State officials say their review has not found the issues critics have raised.

Low- and high-poverty districts tend to spend more than those in the middle. This Chalkbeat Ideas roundup also examines where COVID relief went, why testing moved online, and whether “college for all” was ever really the message.

Technology was often sold as a shortcut to better learning, but now amid a backlash, schools risk abandoning useful tools along with the bad ones, says ISTE leader Richard Culatta

Studies tracking nearly identical students on opposite sides of admissions cutoffs find sizable economic gains, even among those without top grades or test scores.

Teacher attrition peaked in many places around 2022 and has since declined. But years of churn have reshaped faculties, strained school leaders, and may have slowed academic recovery.

About 1 in 10 Indiana educators had significant apprehension teaching math. Their students made less progress, and struggling students faced the greatest risks.

The Brown’s Promise founder says segregated schools remain unequal — and that voluntary, cross-district programs can help change that.