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Education news, analysis, and opinion about the policies around and use of educational technology
Artificial Intelligence How to Stay Ahead of the AI Curve: Lessons From Two Very Different Districts
District leaders share lessons learned, challenges faced, and practical insights from AI rollouts.
Lauraine Langreo
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Classroom Technology Q&A How This District Is Using Esports to Increase Student Engagement
An education technology specialist discusses an esports development program she created.
Lauraine Langreo
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Classroom Technology From Our Research Center How Much Time Are Students Spending on Tech in Classrooms?
Schools are wrestling with the backlash against students' classroom screen time.
Lauraine Langreo
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Students at Loving Elementary School in Loving, N.M., participate in a science, technology, engineering and math lab on May 19, 2025. A rising number of school districts around the country are making decisions to cut back on the amount of time students spend using technology in the classroom.
Susan Montoya Bryan/AP Photo
Artificial Intelligence Anthropic Launches Claude for Teachers. Why Some Critics Are Concerned
The new AI tool for teachers joins others already in the market.
Lauraine Langreo
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7 min read
Anthropic Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger during the unveiling of Claude 4 during the Code with Claude conference, on May 22, 2025 in San Francisco.
Anthropic Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger unveils Claude 4 during the Code with Claude conference on May 22, 2025, in San Francisco. The company recently launched Claude for Teachers, joining other tech companies that already have AI tools for teachers in the market.
Don Feria/AP Content Services for Anthropic
Classroom Technology How Teachers Are Tackling the 'Techlash'
Some educators say they would like to pull back on digital tools, but lack alternative resources.
Jennifer Vilcarino
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1 min read
Students in Coach Harris' history class refrain from using tech, focusing instead on group activities using white boards and worksheets on April 7, 2026 at Sapulpa Middle School in Sapulpa, Okla
A middle school history class refrains from using tech, focusing instead on group activities using white boards and worksheets on April 7, 2026 in Sapulpa, Okla. Some teachers are paring down tech, while others feel they have limited options to do so, according to their responses to an EdWeek story.
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Artificial Intelligence Scathing Analysis Concludes Google Search's AI Tools Are Bad for Kids
Google’s "AI overview" and "AI mode" were each rated "Unacceptable" by a media watchdog.
Alyson Klein
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5 min read
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Google had a big presence in late June at the ISTELive 26 + ASCD Annual Conference in Orlando, Fla., which attracted thousands of educators. But a new report says the company's AI search tools have problems that educators should not ignore.
Marvin Joseph/Education Week

EdWeek Market Brief

Education Market Market Analysis New York’s K-12 Market: Districts Face New Policies, Priorities, and Pressures
School districts are facing new graduation requirements, a push for evidence-based literacy, and new financial pressures.
Alexandria Ng
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11 min read
Product Development Industry Insight One of The World's Largest Ed-Tech Competition Offers an Early Look at K-12's Next Wave of Innovation
A new report from the nonprofit Renaissance Philanthropy on its annual Tools Competition offers an early look at where ed tech — and increasingly artificial intelligence — is headed.
David Saleh Rauf
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11 min read
Meeting District Needs K-12 Insider The Next Stop For Building Districts AI Capacity? The Principal's Office
A K-12 administrator in Florida helped build a district's AI strategy from the central office, then stepped into a principal role to make it happen on the ground.
Emma Kate Fittes
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11 min read
Strategy & Operations K-12 Dealmaking ETS Sells Master Transcript Consortium to Assessment Platform Legend.org
ETS acquired Mastery in 2024.
Michelle Caffrey
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More Technology

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    Hundreds attend the ISTELive 26 + ASCD annual conference at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. on June 29, 2026. Some educators at the conference discussed how they introduce AI to elementary students, breaking down specific lessons to illustrate the technology's potential and limitations, and boost students' AI literacy.
    Marvin Joseph/Education Week
    Artificial Intelligence Lessons on AI for Elementary Students: 'Teach Them Good Habits Now'
    Teachers want to help their youngest students become familiar with AI's potential—and its limits.
    Arianna Prothero, July 8, 2026
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    Illustration of four shrinking human brains with a circuit board texture and binary code in the background.
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    Artificial Intelligence 3 Ways Teachers Can Help Students Think Critically About AI
    Student use of AI should always end with human reflection and analysis. Here's how to do that.
    Jennifer Vilcarino, July 8, 2026
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    Photo illustration of an elementary-aged Caucasian boy with outstretched legs and a laptop on his lap. He is sitting on a very large cellphone propped up by four orange construction cones. The background is a montage of overlapping rectangle shapes with some ghosted images of young elementary students using a variety of tech (headphones and cellphones).
    Photo illustration by Gina Tomko/Education Week + Canva
    Ed-Tech Policy Opinion Is the Backlash Against Tech in Schools Going Too Far?
    As schools rethink their relationship with tech, there are questions they should be asking.
    Lina Eroh, July 6, 2026
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    Artificial Intelligence Opinion In the Race to Build Smarter AI, We Forgot to Build Smarter Humans
    AI is accelerating. What schools must do to support student attention and judgment now.
    Laura BaKosh, July 6, 2026
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    Krista Wilkewitz (left) and Tara Menghini, teachers at Knox Gifted Academy in Chandler, Ariz., explain their interdisciplinary project in which students designed their fantasy school during the ISTELive 26 + ASCD annual conference at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., on June 29, 2026.
    Marvin Joseph/Education Week
    Classroom Technology Here’s What Happened When 6th Graders Designed Their Dream School
    A class project prodded students to use digital tools to fuel creativity, not passively consume content.
    Alyson Klein, July 1, 2026
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    Attendees at the ISTELive 26 + ASCD annual conference listen as Kate Meyer, left, an English teacher and instructional innovation coach for the Mount Desert Island, Maine, school district, discusses how she and other Maine educators are addressing teachers' concerns about AI use. Meyer and colleagues presented at the conference, held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., on July 1, 2026.
    Marvin Joseph/Education Week
    Artificial Intelligence How Educators Can Encourage AI Skill-Building Without Being Tech Cheerleaders
    State education leaders outline how they've tried to ease anxieties about the fast-evolving technology.
    Lauraine Langreo, July 1, 2026
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  • Chromebooks, to be loaned to students in the Elk Grove Unified School District, await distribution at Monterey Trail High School in Elk Grove, Calif., on April 2, 2020.
    Chromebooks, to be loaned to students at a high school in Elk Grove, Calif., on April 2, 2020. Students are taking laptops home during the summer and assistant principals share how their schools use this strategy to combat the summer slide.
    Rich Pedroncelli/AP
    Classroom Technology Do School Laptops Help Students With Summer Learning?
    School-provided computers can extend learning in the summer, but educators are weighing the best use.
    Jennifer Vilcarino, June 30, 2026
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    Educators, advocates, and tech company officials crowd the ISTELive 26 + ASCD Annual Conference at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., on June 29, 2026. EdWeek's reporters and visual journalists are producing a steady flow of dispatches from the event.
    Marvin Joseph/Education Week
    Classroom Technology Inside ISTE 2026: EdWeek’s Daily Updates
    EdWeek's reporters and visuals team are on the ground at the massive 2026 ed-tech show.
    Sean Cavanagh, June 30, 2026
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    Attendees gather for the ISTELive 26 + ASCD Annual Conference in Orlando, Fla., on June 29, 2026. Teachers and administrators at the show said there needs to be a balance between tech- and non-tech-based strategies in schools.
    Marvin Joseph/Education Week
    Classroom Technology Tech-Savvy Educators Weigh In on 'Techlash'
    Teachers and administrators attending the ISTELive 26 + ASCD Annual Conference were asked for their takes on major tech themes.
    Alyson Klein, Lauraine Langreo & Arianna Prothero, June 30, 2026
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    Roberta Freitas presents at the ISTELive 26 + ASCD Annual Conference in Orlando, Fla., on June 29. Freitas spoke about the concept of unplugged AI, in which educators teach students about the fundamentals of the tech without immersing them in it.
    Marvin Joseph/Education Week
    Artificial Intelligence Q&A How to Use Paper to Teach About AI and Cutting-Edge Tech
    Low-tech activities can help students develop a richer understanding of implications and mechanics of AI.
    Arianna Prothero, June 30, 2026
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    StretchAI is unveiled today at ISTELive 26 + ASCD Annual Conference at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida on June 30, 2026. This chatbot is aimed at providing educators with carefully vetted instructional resources.
    Marvin Joseph/Education Week
    Artificial Intelligence 'Building AI Apps is Not Easy': Stretch, ISTE's Chatbot, Is Finally Ready to Go
    ISTE spent the past three years testing and refining the tool, which is now ready for a wider audience.
    Alyson Klein, June 30, 2026
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    Attendees move between sessions at the ISTELive 26 + ASCD Annual Conference at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., on June 29, 2026. The backlash emerging from many school communities about tech's role in classrooms has been a major undercurrent at the show, the nation's largest ed-tech conference.
    Marvin Joseph/Education Week
    Classroom Technology There's a New Pledge for Schools to Show They're Deliberate About Tech Use
    ISTE and GreatSchools.org are urging schools to prove they're using tech in a "safe and purposeful" way.
    Alyson Klein, June 29, 2026
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