In the course of my life I have been fortunate enough to travel and to discover professionally different cultures educational cultures. Each of them taught me otherness and the encounter of the other.

The American dream has always hinged on education as the key to upward mobility. But today, rising tuition and diminishing returns have left millions of Americans trapped in debt with limited ...

As you read this, new kinds of schools are being designed, launched and expanded. Many are utilizing the power of Artificial Intelligence. Take for example, Synthesis School and their AI-powered math ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kerry McDonald writes about innovative K-12 learning models. A common criticism regarding microschools, learning pods, unschooling ...

Forest schools, microschools and worldschooling are just a few of the unconventional education models that are changing the face of traditional schools. From parents dissatisfied with conventional ...

There’s a greater appetite to try new educational models as schools try to adjust to the social and emotional needs of students returning from periods of pandemic lockdowns and other disruptions of ...

The recent release of the DeepSeek-R1 model by a Chinese AI startup has significantly impacted the education sector, providing high-level inference performance at a fraction of the typical training ...

Another day, another fresh proposal for the future of postsecondary education. The latest comes from five MIT professors, who imagine “a new institution that delivers high quality, affordable bachelor ...

The Rasch measurement model has emerged as a pivotal tool in educational assessment by transforming ordinal performance data into interval-level measures. This probabilistic model facilitates the ...