Children & education

Here at The 74, we publish and syndicate more than 30 articles a week about how America’s education system is evolving in a bid to better serve its 74 million children. But with so much happening and changing every day, it’s easy for key headlines to slip through the cracks. That’s why our newsroom recently […]

What Parents of Young Kids Want: Insights from the 2026 National Parent Survey For over 25 years, New America’s insights and policy solutions have helped usher in sweeping, long-term change. Discover ...

New York school districts will soon begin revamping math instruction under a new law aimed at improving test scores — but the effort comes amid sharp debate over how math should be taught. “Back to Basics in Math,” passed as part of the state budget last month, requires school districts to use “evidence-based” methods in elementary […]

For years, the conversation around young children and screens has been dominated by a fear of too much time, too little interaction and too many missed opportunities for real learning. In many cases, those concerns are justified. After all, research consistently shows that children’s excessive or passive screen use, especially of entertainment-heavy content, can negatively […]

As schools consider AI guidelines, educators are also thinking about how they can adjust their assignments to accurately measure what students are actually learning.

Nearly 40 global leaders gathered at UNESCO this week for the Transforming Education Summit +4, reaffirming their commitment to SDG 4 as they confront a deepening global education financing crisis and ...

Developers' choices about what data a system collects, how it is used and shared, and what defaults govern user choices directly shape users' privacy experiences. Yet, developers often make problematic privacy-related design decisions without realizing the potential consequences. We introduce Privacy Detective, a narrative investigation game that leverages real-world legal documents to train developers' privacy awareness. In the game, players search for privacy violation evidence derived from le

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in general-purpose tasks, yet their capacity for fine-grained reasoning in knowledge-intensive domains (KIDs) remains largely unexplored. This study addresses this gap by investigating LLM performance in the specialized field of food chemistry. We introduce a novel benchmark comprising two core tasks: Molecular-to-Food Prediction (MFP) and Food-to-Molecular Prediction (FMP). To support this benchmark, we curated and standardiz

Despite challenges, teachers believe AI can broaden students’ horizons.

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Last week, the House voted on the KIDS Act , a disjointed package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package combines a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act ( KOSA), with several other internet bills, study bills, reporting requirements, and new regulations. Different parts of the bill pressure online services to impose different age-gating schemes, using different standards. EFF opposed this bill , along with many of our members and

This afternoon, the Massachusetts Senate passed the Protecting Children from Addictive Social Feeds Act, which provides kids with important protections from harmful and invasive platform features. EPIC applauds Massachusetts’ Senators for committing to protecting kids online by regulating social media platform design. “For too long, social media companies have relied on invasive data collection and manipulative design practices to drive engagement, often at the expense of young people’s safety a

All 50 states have now joined "Home for Every Child," an initiative that uses new digital technologies with the aim of improving child welfare.

Public schools continued to serve more than 1.5 million students across North Carolina in the 2025-26 school year — or about 84% of market share, a percentage that is about the same as previous years. Market share is a term used to describe how many students are served by different sectors of schools, including public […]

Despite rapid AI adoption in education, rigorous evaluation of AI-powered educational (AIED) systems remains critically underdeveloped, particularly in second language (L2) education, one of the most common yet least evaluated AI applications. We introduce L2-Bench, an open-source benchmark of 1,000+ task-response pairs to aid the pedagogy-led evaluation of LLM capabilities relating to language learning and assessment. Crucially, L2-Bench measures model performativity on the application of learn

Education is the most powerful investment countries can make, yet it is being systematically underfunded. Our projections show that global aid to education will decline by up to 30% between 2023 and ...

Class Disrupted is an education podcast featuring author Michael Horn and Futre’s Diane Tavenner in conversation with educators, school leaders, students and other members of school communities as they investigate the challenges facing the education system in the aftermath of the pandemic — and where we should go from here. Find every episode by bookmarking […]

Top-level pressure and obscure procedures breathe new life into a controversial proposal to allow scanning for online child sexual abuse material.

Alexis Chavez coerced multiple girls to commit self harm and produce child sexual abuse material for notoriety in a sprawling violent extremist collective affiliated with the Com. The post 764 splinter group leader sentenced to 40 years in jail appeared first on CyberScoop .

The last time I interviewed Dr. Dana Suskind, we discussed the three T’s strategy outlined in her book “Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child’s Potential, Fulfilling Society’s Promise”: Tune in. Talk more. Take turns. “It doesn’t require fancy gadgets,” she told me, “or a specialized degree.” Though it was only a few years ago, the fancy […]

Today, 9 July, the European Parliament voted to revive the interim derogation from the ePrivacy Directive, commonly known as “Chat Control 1.0” (Regulation (EU) 2021/1232), which provides the legal basis for the voluntary, indiscriminate scanning of private communications for known and new Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), and for the solicitation of children. This vote […] The post Return of Mass Scanning of Private Communications through Undemocratic Procedure appeared first on Center for De

This may sound strange coming from the co-founder of an education technology company, but I think paper is a powerful technology in a classroom. Research on the science of learning consistently says so. So do the piles of paper that good teaching produces, the piles that bury the teachers who produced them. The real question […]

Call for Tenders: EU Code Week 2027-2030 dumimar Thu, 07/09/2026 - 14:10   Opening: 09 July 2026   Closing: 15 September 2026 This call for tenders aims to expand education around coding, resources, outreach and community support across Europe from 2027 to 2030. Code Week The EU Code Week call for tenders will fund the continuation and upscaling of initiative for the period 2027-2030. Opening : 10 July 2026 Closing : 15 September 2026  EU Code Week is a grassroots initiative suppo

Ofcom has fined a slew of sites it says are failing to prevent children accessing their adult content.

The vote means member countries must now decide whether to accept the updated proposal.

An evolutionary psychologist is challenging the popular understanding of kids and technology.

Public schools are beginning to imagine ways they can benefit from the new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, after the Treasury Department clarified last month that district students will be eligible for scholarships. But for microschools, a growing segment of the private school market, the initial guidance from federal officials has left school leaders worried they […]

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Large language models increasingly serve as teachers generating training data for smaller students. Prior multi-teacher knowledge distillation methods merge outputs without determining which frontier model teaches best, often relying on an LLM judge biased toward its own outputs. We introduce a compete-then-collaborate framework where four frontier AI teachers (Claude, Codex-GPT, Grok, Gemini) are ranked head-to-head by an execution-based judge (unit tests and stdin-stdout checks) with fairness

Europe faces a critical "translation gap" where doctoral excellence in academia often fails to convert into industrial impact. While Industry 5.0 demands a blend of technical depth, sustainability, and human-centric design, traditional higher academic education remains siloed. This paper presents an approach from the Horizon Europe INSIGHT initiative to co-design modular competency pathways for early-stage researchers. Using a multi-methodological analysis framework, including expert interviews

We introduce a Bloom-aligned framework for measuring educational control in Large Language Models (LLMs): the ability to preserve a task's instructional intent while shifting its cognitive demand toward specified learning objectives. We apply this framework to programming tasks in computer science education to study the gap between solving tasks and adapting them for learners. Using revised Bloom's Taxonomy as an operational scale of cognitive demand, we evaluate two intervention settings: gener

The African Union Commission (AUC), through its Department of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (ESTI), has successfully concluded the Peer Review and Knowledge Exchange Meeting on Higher ...

A 13-year-old boy charged with plotting a school massacre in Queensland, allegedly told police he "wanted to kill people for months", and had asked AI to write him a Bondi-style "mass-shooting story". According to police, the teenager firs ... (report_number: 7499)

Notice is hereby given, in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act of October 6, 1972, that the President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (PBAHBCU), Department of Education, has been renewed for a 2-year period through April 9, 2028.

IntroductionThe accelerating diffusion of Generative AI (GenAI) in education has sparked interest in understanding how preservice teachers adopt it as instructional media. Drawing on the “Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2)” as a guided framework, this study examined cognitive, motivational, and contextual drivers of Generative AI use among preservice teachers in Ghana.MethodsThe descriptive cross-sectional survey design was used and data were collected from 783 preserv

What would chemistry look like if students could do more than read about it?

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and of generative AI, in particular, has become a significant focus in education. While generative AI tools offer many benefits for educational ...