Higher education leaders and public-school superintendents say they depend on skilled foreign workers to fill critical roles.
Category: Teachers and School Employees
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It’s Time for That Often-Dreaded Task: Buying Back-to-School Supplies
Parents of children in kindergarten through high school are spending an average of $144, and that’s coming as families are feeling financial stress.
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Bangladesh Mourns After Deadly Plane Crash During School Lunch Break
Nearly all of the 31 killed when a Bangladeshi fighter jet crashed were children. Dozens more were being treated in burn centers as the nation declared a day of mourning.
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This Math Tutor Keeps Popping Up in Wes Anderson Films
Michael Maggart, a high school friend of Anderson’s, has no training or aspirations to be an actor. The director keeps casting him anyway.
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Microsoft Pledges $4 Billion Toward A.I. Education
Microsoft said it would provide cash, artificial intelligence tools and computing services to schools, colleges and nonprofit groups.
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OpenAI and Microsoft Bankroll New A.I. Training for Teachers
The American Federation of Teachers said it would use the $23 million, including $500,000 from the A.I. start-up Anthropic, to create a national training center.
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How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future
After initially banning artificial intelligence chatbots, schools are embracing the tools. Miami, the third-largest U.S. school district, shows how.
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The Brave New World of A.I.-Powered Self-Harm Alerts
New technology alerts schools when students type words related to suicide. But do the timely interventions balance out the false alarms?
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Steve Mariotti, Whose Trauma Led Him to Help Youths at Risk, Dies at 71
After he was mugged, he took a therapist’s advice to work with “difficult students at a difficult school.” They ignored him until the lessons turned to business.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Had a Crush on the Teacher’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.