Karen Vaites, a learning scientist working with Alpha School, explains her shift from skepticism toward EdTech to supporting its AI-enabled, book-rich curriculum development. Her weekly-style literacy roundup digests recent research and policy news on reading, curriculum, and screen time in K-12 education.
Website: https://www.karenvaites.org
A free weekly local newsletter covering Washington Heights in New York City with original reporting on neighborhood issues. Readers get in-depth stories on immigration enforcement, schools, and local institutions such as nursing homes.
InvestigateWest is a nonprofit newsroom publishing investigative and accountability reporting on the Pacific Northwest, often in collaboration with other outlets. Readers get in-depth stories on institutional failures, local government, media and justice issues in Washington state.
A newsletter by an options trader that applies financial theory, especially volatility and risk, to trading, AI tools, education, and parenting. Issues mix detailed trade write-ups and educational explainers with curated links and commentary on AI and games.
Ethan Mollick, a business school professor, writes about how fast AI is advancing and what it means for work, education and daily life. Issues combine hands-on experiments with current AI models and analysis of broader trends such as agents, the Bitter Lesson and the gap between capability and adoption.
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