We hear it all the time: AI is changing the world. It’s an easy thing to say, but when the hype is this loud, it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s just noise. Experts and opportunists start to ...

Allycia Uhrhan’s 6th graders at Truman Middle School in St. Louis started their field-science week collecting data on fish hatching at nearby Forest Park. But the trip really started the prior week, ...

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When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

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For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

Timothy E Shanahan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

My reading life informs my writing life in a way that shapes how I show up on the page. In 2025, I read several books by ...