Author: Nola Jones

What you see when you watch a group of eighth graders argue with an AI tool during lunch is very telling. One student asks for a new version. Another person scans an X-ray into an app to see if the machine agrees with what his doctor says. A third is figuring out how to use it to make plans for her henna business. These kids aren’t waiting for a unit on AI to be added to their curriculum. It’s already inside them, where they build things, ask questions, and sometimes yell at the screen when it gives them something wrong.…

In schools across the country over the last two years, there has been a strange pattern. Administrators met to talk about rules for a technology that most of them had only used briefly. Updates to syllabi were made quickly by teachers. Parents asked things that no one could quite answer. In the middle of it all, there wasn’t much information about what ChatGPT was doing to students’ learning, habits, or ability to think through problems. The SCALE Initiative at Stanford and OpenAI are working together on new research to try to close that gap. The project, which is based at…

When something is wrong in the classroom but no one knows how to say it, there is a certain kind of quiet anger that builds. An 11th-grade U.S. history teacher in Bensenville, Illinois, saw that frustration play out slowly as a group of her students spent almost two weeks following a ChatGPT-directed research thread that led them to a yellow fever outbreak that happened many years before the time period they were supposed to be studying. The students were sure of themselves. The AI seemed sure of itself. Everyone moved forward. After that, everything broke down. The mistake is not…

There is something slightly silly about how AI is used in higher education right now. Policies have been written, consultants have been hired, and all-staff meetings have been held. They have changed the academic integrity handbooks, put disclaimers in assignment briefs, and put in detection software that most students already know how to get around. A proper, structured, and open pilot is something that almost none of them have done, but it might be the one thing that tells them what works. The Wonkhe and Kortext research team brought this up in their project called “Educating the AI Generation.” It’s…

In order to help AI learn, Thought Industries has just released AI Wave. Why it might have a bigger effect on business education than on higher education People who have had to go through a required corporate training module will understand a certain kind of frustration. It’s a forty-minute course. The writing was done three product cycles ago. After going through some slides and taking a quiz that doesn’t test anything, you close the browser. It doesn’t stick. Nobody expected it to. For decades, that experience—boring, impersonal, and having nothing to do with the work being done—has been the standard…

When a child flinches at a loud noise or freezes up near a stranger on the street, every parent knows what’s going on. Mostly, that’s just being careful as a child. But what happens when those times don’t just happen once in a while? What happens when the sound of sirens, loud voices, or worse is played over and over again in a child’s head? That question has been bothering researchers for years. Scientists are now beginning to understand what many families who live in areas with a lot of violence have known for a long time. A study in…

A parent’s face lights up with a certain kind of worry when the pediatrician talks about ADHD. It’s not really panic. What a child’s behavior is like when it goes from being a mystery to being explained is more like a door quietly closing. Often, not long after that, a prescription comes next. That’s what a study led by Stanford Medicine that came out in late August 2025 in JAMA Network Open made very clear. Researchers looked at the medical records of almost 10,000 kids ages 4 and 5 who were diagnosed with ADHD in eight pediatric health networks in…

Zendaya, one of the most famous performers of her generation, went through kindergarten more than once. This is something to think about. Not because she did badly in school, but because her parents wanted her to become more sure of herself. It’s not important and is simple to skip over. But it tells you a lot about the people who paid attention and the kind of base she was built on. Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman was born in 1996 in Oakland, California. She grew up in a home where school was just something that everyone did. Her dad and mom…

It’s pretty amazing that LeBron James, whose name is now on a school of education at a university, never went to college. In 2003, he skipped all the normal steps and went straight from St. Vincent–St. Mary High School to the NBA. And yet, not many people his age have done more to make education the most important thing in their public life. LeBron didn’t have a stable childhood in Akron, Ohio. Gloria, his mother, was only sixteen years old when he was born. The family moved around the city’s rougher areas, looking for a stable place to live. From…

When you walk onto a Canadian International School campus, the noise is the first thing you notice. This is true whether the campus is in Khalifa City in Abu Dhabi or on the western edge of Singapore. Not really chaos. That sound is more like a dozen different languages talking together. The kids shout at each other in French, English, Korean, and Arabic. It’s all done without a hitch by the teachers. It seems like this is more than just an international school. In practice, it really feels international. People often don’t realize how important that difference is. A lot…