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9.9.2026

High Tech, Low Standards: High School in the Age of Distraction

Brian R. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.

A new national survey finds that school-issued devices, AI misuse, and grade inflation are undermining learning and leaving many students feeling unprepared for the future.

10.29.2025

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9.24.2026

Teach For America was once a movement. What happened?

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How states can slow the staffing surge

Aaron Garth Smith
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What teachers should learn: An alternative graduate school curriculum

Daniel Buck
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College or career? On false positives and negatives

Matthew Carr
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9.17.2026

The quickest way to expand school choice is to fill empty private school seats

Kathleen Porter-Magee
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9.17.2026

How money and time shape children’s early advantages

Kendall Rogers
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9.10.2026

Screens, AI, and grade inflation are hollowing out the American high school experience

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D., Michael J. Petrilli
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America’s high achievers are doing surprisingly well on PISA

Brandon L. Wright
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9.24.2026

How long should charter school contract terms be?

Jeff Murray
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9.18.2026

We’ve been treating college as a career plan, but it’s failing too many students

Patrick O’Donnell
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9.17.2026

Student AI use is about much more than school rules

Alicia Anderson
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9.17.2026

What state standards look like on the NAEP scale

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
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9.10.2026

What Massachusetts’s portrait of a learner gets right (and New York’s doesn’t)

Meredith Coffey, Ph.D.
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9.8.2026

Examining education sector mixing within homeschool families

Jeff Murray
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9.9.2026

I parented the opposite of “Young Sheldon.” Here’s how that worked out.

Alina Adams
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9.23.2026

Ohio’s feel-good school report card masks poor student outcomes

Aaron Churchill
9.22.2026

Will Ohio ever make a full academic recovery?

Aaron Churchill
9.21.2026

State report cards offer good news and bad news in reading

Jessica Poiner
9.16.2026

Ohio takes a big step forward in tracking students’ workforce outcomes

Jessica Poiner
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Ohio should tidy its high-priority IWIP industry credentials list, too

Aaron Churchill
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 9.18.26

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