How Teacher Residency Programs Work as an Alternative Certification Route
A residency pairs a year of paid classroom work with mentorship and coursework, but the details vary widely by program and state.
By Zara Nasser • October 30, 2026
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How to Choose a Career When Everything Interests You
A three-field test framework turns career indecision into small, fast real-world experiments backed by Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational data.
By Zara Nasser • October 30, 2026
Guides
How to Choose a Major: How to Choose a College Major With Coursework Sampling and Labor Data
You can choose a college major with evidence instead of a hunch by sampling real coursework, interviewing graduates, and reading federal data on degrees and occupations.
By Victor Petrov • October 30, 2026
Education News
Test Optional Admissions: How Colleges Are Settling the Question
A decade after the shift began, institutions are splitting into distinct camps — and applicants need to read each policy closely.
By Marta Kowalczyk • October 30, 2026
What Competency-Based Grading Means for Transcripts and College Admissions
When a school replaces letter grades with skill ratings, the transcript changes shape — and so does the conversation with admissions offices.
By Samuel Achebe • October 4, 2026
Statewide Reading Curriculum Adoption or Local Choice: How States Should Decide
Mississippi's widely studied NAEP reading gains followed a statewide push toward evidence-aligned early-reading instruction. NCTQ's teacher-prep research offers a way to weigh that model against the case for leaving curriculum choice to districts.
By Samuel Achebe • September 4, 2026
How Principals Should Weigh a Scripted Curriculum Mandate Against Teacher Autonomy
RAND's American Instructional Resources Survey has tracked a real tension in schools adopting highly scripted curricula: consistency gains that show up in the data, and morale costs that show up in exit interviews. A principal implementing a mandate from the district office has to manage both.
By Samuel Achebe • September 2, 2026
Expert Voice
What District Leaders Should Require Before Buying Cyber-Incident Insurance
K12 Security Information Exchange has tracked a steady stream of ransomware and data-breach incidents against school systems. A cyber policy bought without verifying the district's own baseline controls often costs more and covers less than leaders expect.
By Samuel Achebe • August 24, 2026
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How Districts Measure Learning Gains From Literacy Software: What the Data Actually Shows
Vendor dashboards often report growth. District leaders need a way to tell whether the software caused it.
By Victor Petrov • October 30, 2026
EdTech
Edtech AI — AI in the Classroom: What Teachers Need to Know Before Adopting a Tool
Separating the AI classroom tools likely to last from the ones built for a sales cycle.
By Marta Kowalczyk • October 20, 2026
EdTech
Edtech Career Guide: What an EdTech Degree or Bootcamp Actually Gets You
Credentials open some doors in education technology, but the field hires for many roles a diploma never covers.
By Victor Petrov • October 23, 2026
Careers
Careers in Psychology — A Career in Psychology: Degrees, Licenses, and Where Psychologists Work
Psychology careers run through graduate degrees and state licenses: PhD and PsyD tracks feed clinical work, schools form the second-largest employer group, and May 2024 median pay spanned $86,930 to $109,840 by specialty.
By Zara Nasser • October 22, 2026
Edtech Jobs Remote — How to Land a Remote Job in EdTech: A Practical Guide
Portfolios, skills, and channels that actually move candidates from application to interview.
By Marta Kowalczyk • September 23, 2026
FCC's New E-Rate Bidding Portal Sparks Pushback From School Groups
A rule meant to curb fraud in the $5.2 billion school-internet program is drawing warnings that small and rural districts will carry the heaviest new paperwork load.
By Marta Kowalczyk • August 15, 2026
How Districts Should Evaluate AI Tutors Before Buying
A due-diligence guide: the questions about evidence, data, accuracy, and pedagogy districts should put to every AI tutoring vendor.
By Marta Kowalczyk • July 24, 2026
What Are Open Educational Resources and How Should Districts Evaluate Them
Free, openly licensed curricula can cut textbook costs — if districts apply the same quality bar they use for commercial materials.
By Zara Nasser • July 19, 2026
What a Nevada Wildlife Segment Says About How Safety Education Reaches Adults
A local TV spot on hunter safety courses is a small example of a bigger pattern: state agencies teaching outside the classroom.
By Victor Petrov • October 28, 2026
Careers for Kids — Exploring Careers With Kids: Turning Curiosity Into Real Plans
A parent-and-teacher guide to career exploration that starts with what children actually wonder about, not with career-day stereotypes.
By Zara Nasser • October 7, 2026
Careers
Careers for Introverts: Jobs That Reward Deep Focus
Some jobs treat sustained, quiet concentration as the core skill. Here is how to find them, and what to weigh before you switch.
By Victor Petrov • September 25, 2026
Careers
Education: A Nashville Art Program Shows Two Career Paths in One Classroom
Gigi's Creative Corner pays artists with housing instability to teach — and gives a school a low-cost way to test what art instruction can do.
By Victor Petrov • September 22, 2026
Study Plan Guide: How to Write a Study Plan You'll Actually Follow
A schedule built around your energy, not your willpower, survives the week. Here is how to build one.
By Samuel Achebe • October 27, 2026
Homework Help Guide: How Parents Can Help With Homework Without the Nightly Battles
Parents can support homework with fixed routines, stop lines, question-based coaching, and factual notes to the teacher when the load runs past research thresholds.
By Samuel Achebe • October 18, 2026
Guides
Autry: What Kennesaw State's Overflow Meet Strategy Reveals About Roster Development
Five Owls ran unattached from the varsity plan at Georgia Tech's invitational, and the results show why coaches schedule meets like this.
By Zara Nasser • October 2, 2026
Guides
Note Taking Methods: The Student's Guide to Note-Taking Systems That Stick
Cornell, outline, mapping and charting compared across lectures, reading and seminars — with the honest limits of each.
By Samuel Achebe • September 28, 2026
Teacher Shortage Explained — Why Teacher Shortages Persist: Pay, Workload and the Pipeline Problem
The shortage is less about too few people who want to teach and more about how many trained teachers leave, and why.
By Marta Kowalczyk • October 10, 2026
Research — One Student's Summer in an REU Program: What the Story Shows and What It Doesn't
A UTC profile of junior Chloe Mondido is a useful window into NSF's undergraduate research program — read carefully.
By Marta Kowalczyk • October 1, 2026
Education News
Substitute Teacher Story: What Makes a Substitute Teacher the One Every School Requests First
The subs who become legends share a small set of habits, and none of them require a teaching credential.
By Marta Kowalczyk • September 30, 2026
Education News
Student Debt Policy — The Student Debt Conversation: Where Repayment and Forgiveness Stand
Repayment structures, forgiveness fights, and the policy choices that decide what borrowers actually pay.
By Marta Kowalczyk • September 28, 2026