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Duolingo Lawsuit Highlights How App Ads and AI Affect Learning
A Duolingo lawsuit shows how aggressive app ads and cheap AI disrupt student focus. Learn how parents and teachers can protect their children's learning.
New Free Finance Lessons Help Students Earn National Certification
Intuit for Education aligns its free classroom curriculum with W!se credentials. Learn how this impacts high school financial literacy and student privacy.
How Third-Party School Software Is Exposing Millions of Students' Data
Learn how massive third-party data breaches at Frontline Education and ETS compromise millions of student records, and how schools can secure pupil privacy.
How Social-Emotional Learning Programs Reduce School Conflict
Discover how social-emotional learning programs like Second Step impact classroom behavior and academic success, and learn how to apply these skills at home.
Teaching Kids Sorting Algorithms: Why Physical Play Beats Raw Code
Learn how screen-free activities can teach sorting algorithms to kids. Discover why physical play is the best way to build early computational thinking.
Why Teaching Sorting Algorithms to Young Kids Requires Care
Learn why teaching complex sorting algorithms to young kids may clash with educational standards, and discover age-appropriate ways to introduce coding.
Why Screen-Free 'Sorting' Activities Are the Perfect Coding Gateway
Discover how unplugged computer science activities like sorting boost children's logical reasoning and prepare them for coding, according to new research.
Testing Vendor Breach Exposes Millions of California Student Records
Learn how the California student data breach impacts your family, what data was exposed by testing vendor ETS, and how to protect your child's identity.
Michigan Looks to Mississippi Playbook to Solve Early Literacy Crisis
Michigan is spending $123 million to replicate Mississippi's reading turnaround. Learn what this science of reading shift means for your child's classroom.
Can Software Replace Subject-Specialist Teachers? An IGCSE Case Study
Learn how one international school replaced subject-specialist teachers with software, and what research says about the limits of self-paced digital learning.
New College Venture Challenge Fights Misinformation With $1M Prize
Learn how xFoundry’s new $1M student competition challenges college teams to fight online misinformation, and what the 18-month commitment means for families.