Free screener
Screener
Home / Education News

Innovation news

163 stories

Articles, news and infographics about Education - Innovation, written for parents and grounded in the science of learning.

All Innovation news

Today · October 11
DC Rewards Kids for Showing Up. What Keeps Them Coming Back? Innovation DC Rewards Kids for Showing Up. What Keeps Them Coming Back? DC will reward better attendance with game tickets, team gear and gift cards. A prize helps a reluctant child walk back in. What keeps her coming is a harder question.…
September 15
Delaware Measures How Far Kids Move, Not Only Where They Land Innovation Delaware Measures How Far Kids Move, Not Only Where They Land For years, one proficiency cut-score has passed for a verdict on a child. On September 15, Delaware started publishing a second number that measures movement instead, and its lowest scorers…
September 5
Speechify Reads to Your Child. Reading Still Has to Be Taught. Innovation Speechify Reads to Your Child. Reading Still Has to Be Taught. Speechify won a 2025 Apple Design Award for reading schoolbooks aloud to children who struggle to read, and that access is worth having. But an app that reads to a…
September 3
AI Is Flooding Your Child’s Learning. Design Decides If It Teaches. Innovation AI Is Flooding Your Child’s Learning. Design Decides If It Teaches. AI is pouring into your child’s fall this year, and the coverage keeps asking whether screens help or hurt. The learning science says that was never the question. What decides…
Free weekly email

The Learning Success Weekly Blueprint

Neuroscience in plain language, one quick-win strategy and a 5-minute activity. Every week, free.

Get the free weekly email Free every week · Unsubscribe anytime
August 8
Oklahoma’s $40,000 AI School Pays Six Figures for Human Motivation Innovation Oklahoma’s $40,000 AI School Pays Six Figures for Human Motivation Alpha School opens in Edmond and Tulsa on August 12, selling core academics in two hours a day for $40,000 a year. The overlooked detail: the AI school pays humans…
July 13
Innovation Rural Schools Start Credentialing Emotional Intelligence and Problem-Solving This Fall Rural employers demanded soft skills for years. This fall, 120+ Kansas schools are credentialing them. Research on learning differences explains why parents of struggling kids should pay attention now. Innovation Most Schools Were Not Built for How Your Child Actually Learns Wyoming’s CHANGE Playbook reached 43% of the state’s students by replacing rigid curriculum with internships, life skills, and flexible schedules. Learning science documented the need for this approach decades ago.…
July 12
Innovation Schools Cut Chronic Absenteeism 35 Percent When Parents Became Partners, Not Spectators Lowell educators showcased a 35% drop in chronic absenteeism and 230%+ rise in family engagement. Harvard says the effect rivals poverty. Most schools still design families out of learning.
July 5
Innovation Nevada College Program Shows At-Risk Labels Are Part of the Problem A Nevada college program stopped calling Native students “at-risk” and gave them five days on campus instead. Three peer-reviewed research streams explain exactly why that order matters—and what it means… New Missouri Virtual School Offers Credits Without Fixing Why Students Fell Behind Innovation New Missouri Virtual School Offers Credits Without Fixing Why Students Fell Behind Missouri's new K12-powered virtual high school targets teens who fell behind. Research shows online credit recovery doesn't improve graduation rates, and the program structurally cannot deliver IEP services requiring in-person…