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September 4

Dyslexia Sep 4 A Reading Credential That Reaches Well Past Phonics, and Why It Matters A Pennsylvania university earned a top dyslexia-reading credential, and the coverage filed it as one more win for phonics. The credential's own definition tells a longer story: even the standard… AI in education Sep 4 Your Child’s AI Tutor: Teaching, or Only Keeping Them Busy? A new IBM study says AI is now a weekly fixture in most middle and high school classrooms. It measures how much AI children get and how parents feel about… Education policy Sep 4 New York Paused AI in Grade Schools. The Evidence Backs Caution. New York City paused generative AI for 600,000 students through 8th grade, and the coverage split into cheers and alarms. The more useful question is the one the city actually…

September 3

Education policy Sep 3 NYC Set New School Screen-Time Limits. The Ban-or-Embrace Fight Fails Parents. New York City moved to limit screen time in its schools, and the reaction split into two certainties: overdue protection, or technophobic panic. Both are missing the same thing. Here… Dyslexia Sep 3 A New Study Suggests Dyslexia Reaches Past Reading Itself Dyslexia has long been treated as a phonics problem to be drilled away. A new study found dyslexia-linked differences in a learning task that was not reading at all, and… Innovation Sep 3 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… Dyslexia Sep 3 Dyslexia Help Doesn’t Have to Wait for a Diagnosis A new British Dyslexia Association report puts hard numbers on the dyslexia diagnosis gap: only 1 in 3 were diagnosed at primary school. The push for earlier diagnosis is right.…

September 2

AI in education Sep 2 AI Makes Your Child’s Schoolwork Easier. That’s Exactly the Problem. A new study found that when people are mentally tired, even strong critical thinking stops protecting them from swallowing whatever AI hands over. The finding points at something bigger: when… ADHD Sep 2 This ADHD-and-Grades Study Points to a Lever, Not a Ceiling A genetic study found ADHD symptoms push a child’s grades down, and the headlines read it as a fixed ceiling. Look at the direction the study actually established, and it…

September 1

ADHD Sep 1 Two Kinds of Zoning Out, and Why ‘Try Harder’ Falls Short You have watched your child’s attention leave the room and read it as one thing, a shortage of effort. New research on zoning out suggests inattention is not one thing…