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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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9.10.2026

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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9.10.2026

Is this the post-homework era?

Alicia Anderson
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9.10.2026

Fewer students, more dollars, and harder choices

Mike McShane
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9.3.2026

America’s oldest school model may be its future

Stephanie Saroki de Garcia
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9.3.2026

Education got there first? The breakdown of traditional left-right delineations.

Andrew J. Rotherham
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8.28.2026

The three prongs of education reform success: Policy, programs, and political perseverance

Patricia Levesque
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8.27.2026

New York’s portrait of a graduate is a disaster in the making. Here’s how to minimize the damage.

Meredith Coffey, 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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9.3.2026

Don’t just defend or destroy the National Center for Education Statistics. Rebuild it.

Bruno V. Manno
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9.3.2026

Examining outcomes-based contracting in eight pilot districts

Jeff Murray
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8.27.2026

The loophole quietly undoing America's third-grade reading laws

Harry Anthony Patrinos
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8.27.2026

The supply side of school choice: Who participates? Who doesn’t?

Mike McShane
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8.20.2026

Education’s ambulance-at-the-bottom problem

Dale Chu
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Ohio

9.8.2026

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

Aaron Churchill
9.8.2026

Three lessons Ohio could learn on career advising from Texas

Jessica Poiner
9.3.2026

What to know about 3-year bachelor’s degrees

Aaron Churchill
8.25.2026

The “state share” of school funding and the 20 mill property tax floor

Aaron Churchill
8.24.2026

Ohio takes its eye off the teacher shortage ball

Jessica Poiner
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 9.11.26

Jeff Murray
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