Author: Nelson Rosario

Chance Nadritch had no intention of turning into a nurse. He was studying accounting at the time. He thought he was pretty good at it, but he would be the first to admit that numbers aren’t really his thing. Then his grandmother had a heart attack that killed her. He was there when it took place. A nurse saw it first and told the doctors what was wrong before they could even look at her chart. Everything changed at that moment. Nadritch changed his major and went to St. John Fisher University. He later got a job in the cardiac…

Most parents in Houston have been to the point where they sit at the kitchen table, ask their child how school was, and get a shrug in response. This makes them wonder what happened during those seven hours. Part of the point of PowerSchool HISD is to help with times like those. Not very exciting. Doesn’t make the news. But it is really helpful for keeping track of a child’s schoolwork every day. As the official student information system for the Houston Independent School District, HISD Connect by PowerSchool does its job. It has all of a student’s contact information,…

Today, if you go to any college library, you’ll notice something. Some students have six tabs open, with AI tools that help them cross-reference their research, summarize their lecture notes, and make practice problems. Some people are working the same way that students did ten years ago. It’s not effort or intelligence that makes a difference anymore. The key is getting in and knowing where to look. Many AI companies have been giving students discounts that most college freshmen don’t know about. Some of them are free for a whole year. Some cut the cost in half every month. Students…

When worried about their child’s mental health, most parents go to the pediatrician’s office instead of the therapist’s. This is a rather telling fact. They go there because that’s where they normally go, not because they don’t know the difference. They trust that door. The mental health system didn’t wait behind it for a long time. That’s slowly and unevenly changing, but in ways that feel more permanent than the usual cycle of campaigns to raise awareness and projects that don’t have enough money. Psychologists all over the country are questioning a basic idea that has shaped their field for…

One kind of technology used in education is mostly found in meeting rooms and pitch decks. It makes a lot of noise when it comes in, sounds good, and then goes away quietly after two academic years. This type of teacher shows up in classrooms in Checotah, Oklahoma, and Burke County, North Carolina, where budgets are getting smaller, students are getting distracted, and expectations are going up all at the same time. In that direction, Discovery Education looks like it’s moving. The company announced the winners of its third annual Discovery Education Awards this year. The awards were given to…

In a perfect America, every student, no matter where they live, comes to school ready to learn about AI and be able to question it, work with it, and maybe even make something with it. Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, is putting $2.5 million on the idea that this kind of America is possible. It’s a big idea that needs to happen now. The project, which has federal funding, aims to close what more and more teachers are calling the “rural AI education divide.” This is the growing gap between students in well-resourced urban and suburban schools and those…

A newsletter is not a very exciting thing. There was no algorithm, viral moment, or big name pushing it to millions of followers. Still, OMEP Spain has been doing something very interesting behind the scenes for years: they have been sending carefully thought-out messages to families, teachers, and policymakers, and these messages have been slowly, almost imperceptibly, changing how people in Spain talk about early childhood education. OMEP has been around since 1948. It stands for the World Organization for Early Childhood Education. It works in over 60 countries, and its main goal has always been to protect children’s rights…

After that, there must have been a certain kind of stillness. In a Cessna 150, two people are cruising over Toledo, Argentina, at one point. There is one after that. The door was open, the seatbelt was undone, and the headset was set down. The instructor then left the plane, which was about 820 feet above the ground. What the student pilot, who was 22 years old, did next is the most important part of the story. The plane went back. She made it. Even though the situation she was in was not something that anyone has ever been trained…

Ask a teacher at almost any public school in North America how they keep track of students’ progress, talk to parents, or keep track of attendance. They will probably talk about PowerSchool. The platform is so much a part of daily school life that most students use it without even thinking about it, like how adults use email. It’s not there. It works without any problems. Most of the time. It’s hard to believe that PowerSchool helps more than 60 million students in 90 countries. You can’t call that niche software. That’s the building blocks. Knowing what the PowerSchool student…

All through August, something cool takes place. The makeup aisles get a little busier, beauty forums get busy with questions about money, and people keep talking about the same brand: Morphe. There’s no chance about it. Morphe has quietly become one of the best options for students who want to build a real makeup kit without spending all their money. There’s something that stands out as soon as you walk into a Morphe store before the new school year starts. The people there are young, mostly students, and they’re not just looking around for no reason. They know why they…