Emily Tate

Getting back to normal may be a chief goal of cities, states and ordinary people as the pandemic subsides. But when it comes to the broken state of ...

A few weeks after Kali Klingler—and millions of other students across the country—had started remote learning last spring, her district announced that ...

The U.S. edtech industry is massive. By our estimate, startups and companies raised upward of $2.2 billion in 2020 alone. Yet, curiously, the amount ...

HAMILTON, Ohio — In the living room of his mother’s apartment, a threadbare two-story unit next to the train tracks, Ryder pulls out bulky plastic toys ...

At a time when a global pandemic has laid bare—and exacerbated—many of the inequities that exist in education, a new nonprofit organization has emerged ...

When educators describe their frenzied switch to remote learning in the spring, most talk about being caught off guard. Some mention how little they ...

Shocked. Outraged. Frustrated. Curious. Determined. Excited. Proud. Those are some of the emotions Mario Herrera’s high school students experienced as ...

Jamie Wong Baesa had been dreaming of her first year as a teacher since she was 7 years old, when she would line up her stuffed animals and launch into ...

He started his career as an elementary school teacher. Then he became a high school guidance counselor and dean of students. After that, he founded his ...

HAMILTON, Ohio — Suzanne Prescott first noticed the changes in children’s behaviors in 2015. She was fielding reports of kids knocking over ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It may have been the seventh time that the U.S. Department of Education hosted its annual ED Games Expo. But it was only the first ...

As venture capitalists and private-equity firms continue to invest billions of dollars in education, they’re increasingly directing their funds to ...

Kindra Locklear was tuned in to CNN one day last fall when she came across a segment about a nonprofit organization that aims to close the gender gap ...

Kevin Elgan believes that the best technology is the kind that gets out of the way—it doesn’t have to be on your wrist, in your hand or at your ...

It was 2007, and Marietta High School, part of Marietta City Schools outside Atlanta, had just come off Georgia’s “needs improvement” list for ...

After launching five years ago—and seeping into nearly half of all U.S. schools—Kahoot is offering the first premium version of its game-based learning ...

This is the second part of a two-part story looking at how one school is piloting MIT research on playful assessments to measure student growth. Read ...

There is a lot of talk these days about robots replacing humans in the workforce, but those conversations remain largely abstract. For students in ...