Educators

NEWPORT NEWS — The Newport News Education Association President condemned the premise of the school division’s motion to dismiss Abigail Zwerner’s pending $40 million lawsuit. The motion was filed last week by attorneys representing the…

Julia Rafal-Baer explains, “Fundamentally, we are failing to fully leverage the leadership talent of ... half of our population."getty It is lonely at the top for women in business leadership. In 2023, just 12 percent of C-suite and…

An education software company has developed a program it says schools and universities can use to detect whether students are using AI to complete their tests and essays, according to a new report.The company, Turn It In, has a long history…

When Lindsey Horowitz, a special education teacher in Los Angeles, made the career switch from nonprofit work to teaching, she knew it wouldn’t be an easy job.Horowitz, like many educators of color, entered the profession because she did…

The artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT, the homework-drafting chatbot that some schools have banned, is coming to more students via the company Chegg Inc .The US educational software maker has combined its corpus of quiz answers with…

9,000 Rutgers University faculty members set to strike Monday…

For the first time in a decade, California schools are staring down a drop in funding. In January, Gov. Gavin Newsom released his proposed budget, projecting $1.5 billion below last year’s school funding. And that proposal assumes there…

Shawn Lee, a high school social studies teacher in Seattle, wants to see lessons on the internet akin to a kind of 21st-century driver's education, an essential for modern life.Lee has tried to bring that kind of education into his…

SAN MATEO – Peninsula educators are suing Snap, TikTok and YouTube over allegations they intentionally designed their platforms to be addictive and to deliver harmful content to children. The 107-page lawsuit was filed Monday by Cotchett,…

Three out of four teenagers have seen online pornography – often before they even became a teenager. That’s according to a new report from Common Sense Media that examines the role pornography plays in the lives of today’s youth. Some…