Education News
The Teacher's Day: a Behind-the-Scenes Hour by Hour
Teaching hours are the visible part of the job. The invisible part starts before the bell and ends long after it.
By Marta Kowalczyk • October 11, 2026
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Education News covers the commercial side of learning technology: vendor funding and results, pricing changes, mergers, procurement rules, and the budget cycles determining when schools can buy anything. Reporting connects corporate decisions to classroom availability. For administrators, suppliers and analysts following where education money moves.
Education News covers the commercial side of learning technology: vendor funding and results, pricing changes, mergers, procurement rules, and the budget cycles determining when schools can buy anything. Reporting connects corporate decisions to classroom availability. For administrators, suppliers and analysts following where education money moves.
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A Year Inside One Classroom: What a Teacher's Year Really Holds
The school year runs about nine months, but the work stretches well past the final bell. Here is how one teaching year actually unfolds.
By Kara Williams • September 26, 2026
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What Is Montessori? The Method Explained
A century-old approach built on mixed-age classrooms, self-paced materials, and a prepared environment — and the catch that any school can use the name.
By Zara Nasser • September 24, 2026
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Why education news matters more than headlines suggest
School-board votes, funding fights and procurement rules reach classrooms years before the stories leave the news cycle.
By Zara Nasser • September 23, 2026
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What 'evidence-based' actually means when an edtech vendor says it
Under federal law there are four tiers of evidence, and most sales decks are quoting tier IV — the tier that means 'a logic model.'
By Marta Kowalczyk • August 28, 2026
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Retrieval practice works, but not as much as trainers claim
A 2007 federal practice guide gave testing-based study strategies its strongest evidence rating, but newer classroom studies show the real gains are smaller and more subject-dependent than professional-development slides suggest.
By Marta Kowalczyk • August 17, 2026
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Why FERPA's vendor exception decides what ed-tech can access
Federal law never says a classroom app can have student data by default. A narrow exception does the work, and a wave of new state laws is now building stricter rules on top of it.
By Marta Kowalczyk • August 10, 2026
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Why district edtech pilots rarely become contracts
Per the Pilot-to-Purchase research on K-12 pilots, most pilots never convert — and the reasons are structural, not product-quality problems.
By Zara Nasser • August 5, 2026
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Open educational resources and real cost savings
Districts that replace publisher courses with OER cut textbook spending sharply — but the honest accounting includes curation, printing, and the salaries behind the swap.
By Zara Nasser • July 14, 2026
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What happens when federal tutoring contracts wind down
Emergency relief money built a tutoring industry in record time; the wind-down shows what districts keep, what evaporates, and what the next funding cliff teaches.
By Marta Kowalczyk • June 21, 2026