The emergence of artificial intelligence has raised questions about its impact on creativity and critical thinking. While some schools are banning the use of AI in classroomsone school district in Gwinnett County, Georgia, has gone all-in, launching a curriculum that brings the technology into classrooms, starting in kindergarten.
The approach goes beyond robotics and computer science classes. Teachers and students embrace artificial intelligence in nearly every subject taught, from English to art class. So far, the machines seem to be winning over students, parents and teachers, but there is still a lot to learn.
At Patrick Elementary School in Buford,… Read More
Kristin Robinson loves teaching kindergarten.
“I absolutely love being the children’s first teacher they will have in elementary school and setting the path for their educational career,” Robinson said in a statement to the Observer. “It is important to me that I instill a love for learning in my students that will last a lifetime.”
Robinson, who is Tomoka Elementary’s Teacher of the Year, is in her 18th year teaching.
She wanted to be a teacher for as long as she could remember, she said.
“As a child, I looked up to my mother who was an elementary school teacher… Read More
Six school districts and two educational associations are covering the state of Colorado over the Universal Preschool Program. The lawsuit states in part that the new program has not addressed concerns about violations of laws regarding the rights of children with disabilities.
The lawsuit also raises concerns about the adequacy and transparency of funding. Districts claim the program was rushed, poorly designed and confusing to parents and that the rollout of the program is causing damage and lost revenue.
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The plaintiffs include the Colorado Association of School Executives, Consortium of Directors of Special Education, Brighton School District… Read More
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*Update: On January 4, 2023, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed NJ Bill S588, more commonly known as the information and media literacy education bill, into law. The legislation will require information and media literacy to be taught across K-12, making it the most comprehensive media literacy bill in the nation.
New Jersey is set to become the first state in the nation to mandate teaching media literacy… Read More
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Kindergarten enrollment is down. Dropout rates are up. Public school enrollment still hasn’t rebounded to where it was in 2019, before COVID turned education upside down.
Where have the kids gone? A new analysis by The Associated Press and Stanford University’s Big Local News project found an estimated 230,000 students in 21 states absent from publicly available data on public and private school enrollment and home schooling. That tally includes… Read More
SPRINGFIELD — Students are talking about saving for retirement, learning how to invest in the stock market and creating a budget to decorate a dorm room — all in middle school.
Concerned children may be graduating with few financial skills, getting into debt and facing financial problems because of it, the school department has started a new program to teach students how to manage money before they graduate.
It is being implemented across the district in phases.
The program, which came from the long-term Portrait of a Graduate project, has been piloted in different schools over the past two years.… Read More
In a surprise announcement on Tuesday, Jan. 9, Alpine School District Superintendent Shane Farnsworth announced that the district will offer full-day kindergarten at every elementary school in the 2024-25 school year. The all-day expansion is several years ahead of the original projected schedule. State law requires that districts continue to offer half-day options, so parents may pick their children up at lunch each day if half-day is desired.
“I appreciate all the work of our elementary supervisors, physical facilities teams and business teams in looking at the financial support. All-day kindergarten has been funded by the state legislature, and we… Read More
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The School District of Philadelphia hopes parents will begin enrolling students in their kindergarten classes sooner rather than later.
A new campaign to bolster enrollment and increase early registration for kindergarteners for the upcoming school year kicked off Monday.
Superintendent Tony B. Watlington, Sr., joined staff and teachers at Ellwood School to announce their “Thrive At Five” campaign.
Children must be five years old by September 1 to start kindergarten in the fall.
The program encourages parents to… Read More
