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FILE - New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham gestures during a virtual news conference from the state Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M., on July 23, 2020. A New Mexico judge has put on hold a new mandate imposed by Grisham's administration that requires school districts across the state to adopt calendars that consist of at least 180 days. The ruling came Monday, May 13, 2024, as dozens of school districts and superintendents challenged the state Public Education Department over the legality of the change. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)

New Mexico judge halts state mandate for school districts to adopt calendars with more school days

FILE - Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves is surrounded by legislative supporters after signing a bill to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls' or women's sports teams on March 11, 2021, at the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss. On Monday, April 29, 2024, Mississippi House and Senate negotiators quietly killed two bills that would have further restricted recognition of transgender people by limiting which bathrooms they could use in public buildings and by specifying that "there are only two sexes, and every individual is either male or female." (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Mississippi governor signs law restricting transgender people’s use of bathrooms and locker rooms

Amanda Householder, center, speaks outside the St. Louis office of Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey on Monday, May 13, 2024, as David Clohessy, right, listens. They were among a group of people urging Bailey to take action in response to allegations of child abuse at Christian boarding schools in southern Missouri. (AP Photo/Jim Salter)

Abuse victim advocates pushing Missouri AG to investigate Christian boarding schools

FILE - Students work on assignments and listen to organizers as they sit inside the encampment protest in Polk Place on University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C., April 29, 2024. On Monday, May 13, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees approved a change that would divert $2.3 million of diversity funding to go toward public safety and policing. The vote to shift more funding to public safety comes as continued pro-Palestinian protests on UNC's campus have resulted in several arrests in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera, File)

UNC board slashes diversity program funding to divert money to public safety resources

CORRECTS PHOTOGRAPHER'S NAME TO JARED LAZARUS FROM BILL SNEAD - In this photo provided by Duke University, commencement speaker Jerry Seinfeld laughs on stage during the school's graduation ceremony, Sunday, May 12, 2024, in Durham, N.C. A tiny contingent of Duke graduates opposed the pro-Israel comedian speaking at their commencement Sunday, with about 30 of the 7,000 students leaving their seats and chanting “Free Palestine!” amid a mix of boos and cheers. (Jared Lazarus/Duke University via AP)

Dozens of Duke University graduates walk out in protest at pro-Israel speaker Jerry Seinfeld

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Pro-Palestinian students hold white t-shirts stating the message, "DIVEST," as they protest during the UC Berkeley graduation at California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday, May 11, 2024. (Yalonda M. James/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Pro-Palestinian protests dwindle on campuses as some US college graduations marked by defiant acts

Police clash with pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the Shrine Auditorium, where a commencement ceremony for graduates from Pomona College was being held Sunday, May 12, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Pro-Palestinian protests dwindle on campuses as US college graduations are marked by defiant acts

ZeroEyes analyst Mario Hernandez demonstrates the use of artificial intelligence with surveillance cameras to identify visible guns at the company's operations center, Friday, May 10, 2024, in Conshohocken, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Schools turn to artificial intelligence to spot guns as companies press lawmakers for state funds

West Virginia University Muslim Student Association President Omar Ibraheem leads a chant during a pro-Palestinian protest at Woodburn Hall in Morgantown, W.Va., Saturday, May 11, 2024. (William Wotring/The Dominion-Post via AP)

Small pro-Palestinian protests held Saturday as college commencements are held

First lady Jill Biden speaks at the Mesa Community College commencement Saturday, May 11, 2024, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Jill Biden tells Arizona college graduates to tune out people who tell them what they ‘can’t’ do

FILE - People gather to protest against the Israel-Hamas war at a plaza at the University of Texas at Dallas, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Richardson, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

What’s the history of ‘outside agitators’? Here’s what to know about the label and campus protests

FILE- An immigrant family show their paperwork to security guards at the Roosevelt Hotel, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, in New York. A New York City policy imposing 60-day limits on shelter stays for migrant families has been rolled out haphazardly over the past six months — with the city failing to notify pregnant women that they may be exempt, a new audit by the city's comptroller has found. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

NYC policy on how long migrant families can stay in shelters was ‘haphazard,’ audit finds

Virginia budget leaders reach compromise with governor on state spending plan.

FLE - A statue of confederate general Stonewall Jackson is removed on July 1, 2020, in Richmond, Va. Shenandoah County, Virginia's school board voted 5-1 early Friday, May 10, 2024, to rename Mountain View High School as Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary as Ashby Lee Elementary four years after the names had been removed. AP Photo/Steve Helber)

In reversal, Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schools

Protesters stand on the University of Pennsylvania campus, in Philadelphia, on Friday, May 10, 2024. (Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

Police arrest dozens as they break up pro-Palestinian protests at several US universities

Pro-Palestinian supporters demanding divestment from companies that profit off the Israel-Hamas war, hold signs outside as the University of Minnesota's Board of Regents meet on Friday, May 10, 2024, in Minneapolis. The University of Minnesota disclosed this week that about $5 million of its $2.27 billion endowment investments — or less than a quarter of 1% — are tied to Israeli companies or U.S. defense contractors. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed)

Pro-Palestinian protesters demand endowment transparency. But it’s proving not to be simple

FILE - A Pac-12 logo is shown on the floor of Haas Pavilion as California forward Fardaws Aimaq (00) looks to pass while being defended by UCLA guard Brandon Williams during an NCAA college basketball game in Berkeley, Calif., Feb. 10, 2024. The University of California Board of Regents is expected to accept a recommendation that UCLA pay University of California at Berkeley $10 million a year for six years as a result of the Bruins’ upcoming move to the Big Ten and the demise of the Pac-12. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

UC president recommends UCLA pay Cal Berkeley $10 million per year for 6 years

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event in Elkins Park, Pa., Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Harris congratulates HBCU graduates in video message for graduation season

FILE - Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, center, confers with Mississippi House Speaker Jason White, R-West, left, and Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, after his State of the State address to a joint session of the Mississippi State Legislature, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, at the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss. Reeves signed legislation Wednesday, May 8, 2024, to change Mississippi's school funding formula beginning July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Mississippi governor signs law to set a new funding formula for public schools

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators wave flags outside the Stata Center at MIT, Thursday, May 9, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

Several people detained as protesters block parking garage at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

FILE - United States Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield addresses members of the U.N. Security Council, April 24, 2024, at United Nations headquarters. Xavier University has reversed course and canceled a planned commencement address on Saturday, May 11, 2024 by Thomas-Greenfield after news of her appearance sparked outrage among some students. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Xavier University cancels UN ambassador’s commencement speech after student outcry

This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo)

Militants bomb a girls school in northwestern Pakistan, once a Taliban stronghold. No one was harmed

Arizona state university scholar on leave after confrontation with woman at pro-israel rally.

FILE - The then Prime Minister of Fiji Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 23, 2022, at the U.N. headquarters. Former Prime Minister Bainimarama was sentenced on Thursday, May 9, 2024, to a year in prison for interfering in a criminal investigation while he headed the government of his South Pacific island nation. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

Fiji’s ex-leader, Frank Bainimarama, sentenced to prison for interfering in police investigation

FILE - Members of the New York City Police Department listen to a news conference, Jan. 4, 2017, in New York. New York City's watchdog agency has launched an investigation into allegations that the city's police department improperly used its official social media accounts to target public officials and private citizens. The city Department of Investigation confirmed the probe in a statement Wednesday, May 8, 2024, saying it was prompted by recent requests from City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and the Legal Aid Society asking it to look into the NYPD's social media policies and practices. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

New York City’s watchdog agency launches probe after complaints about the NYPD’s social media use

FILE - Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost speaks during an election night watch party, Nov. 8, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio's top lawyer has advised the state's public universities that a law written to deter Ku Klux Klan demonstrations could be used to impose felony charges on students who wear face coverings while protesting the war in Gaza. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)

Ohio attorney general warns student protesters in masks could face felony charges under anti-KKK law

Court rules north carolina catholic school could fire gay teacher who announced his wedding online, some xavier university students upset with planned commencement address by un ambassador.

FILE - Missouri Gov. Mike Parson delivers the State of the State address on Jan. 18, 2023, in Jefferson K-12 students from low-income families across Missouri soon will have access to private school scholarships under legislation signed Tuesday, May 7, 2024, by Parson. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Missouri’s GOP Gov. Mike Parson signs law expanding voucher-like K-12 scholarships

FILE - Students make their way into Little Rock Central High School on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, for the first day of classes in the Little Rock School District. A federal judge ruled, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, that Arkansas cannot prevent two high school teachers from discussing critical race theory in the classroom, but stopped short of more broadly blocking the state from enforcing its ban on “indoctrination” in public schools. The prohibition is being challenged by two teachers and two students at Little Rock Central High School, site of the 1957 desegregation crisis.(Tommy Metthe/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP, FIle)

Arkansas cannot prevent 2 teachers from discussing critical race theory in classroom, judge rules

B Rosas, left, Lucia Everist, center, and Libby Kramer, of Climate Generation, speak to the Minnesota Youth Council, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in St. Paul, Minn. The advocates called on the council, a liaison between young people and state lawmakers, to support a bill requiring schools to teach more about climate change. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

High school students, frustrated by lack of climate education, press for change

Demonstrators clash with the officers from the Metropolitan Police Department at George Washington University in Washington, early Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the university and arrested demonstrators early Wednesday, hours after dozens marched to the home of the school’s president. (Sage Russell/GW Hatchet via AP)

Police clear pro-Palestinian protest camp and arrest 33 at DC campus as mayor’s hearing is canceled

David Banks, chancellor of New York Public schools, answers a question during a House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education hearing on antisemitism in K-12 public schools, Wednesday, May 8, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

K-12 school leaders reject allegations that they let antisemitism run rampant

Alabama lawmakers approve tax breaks for businesses that help employees afford child care.

FILE - Bonneville Elementary School parents and students gather during a block party supporting trans and non binary students and staff on April 29, 2024, in Salt Lake City. Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could threaten their safety. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Transgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom law enforcement

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New advances in technology are upending education, from the recent debut of new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like ChatGPT to the growing accessibility of virtual-reality tools that expand the boundaries of the classroom. For educators, at the heart of it all is the hope that every learner gets an equal chance to develop the skills they need to succeed. But that promise is not without its pitfalls.

“Technology is a game-changer for education – it offers the prospect of universal access to high-quality learning experiences, and it creates fundamentally new ways of teaching,” said Dan Schwartz, dean of Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE), who is also a professor of educational technology at the GSE and faculty director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning . “But there are a lot of ways we teach that aren’t great, and a big fear with AI in particular is that we just get more efficient at teaching badly. This is a moment to pay attention, to do things differently.”

For K-12 schools, this year also marks the end of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funding program, which has provided pandemic recovery funds that many districts used to invest in educational software and systems. With these funds running out in September 2024, schools are trying to determine their best use of technology as they face the prospect of diminishing resources.

Here, Schwartz and other Stanford education scholars weigh in on some of the technology trends taking center stage in the classroom this year.

AI in the classroom

In 2023, the big story in technology and education was generative AI, following the introduction of ChatGPT and other chatbots that produce text seemingly written by a human in response to a question or prompt. Educators immediately worried that students would use the chatbot to cheat by trying to pass its writing off as their own. As schools move to adopt policies around students’ use of the tool, many are also beginning to explore potential opportunities – for example, to generate reading assignments or coach students during the writing process.

AI can also help automate tasks like grading and lesson planning, freeing teachers to do the human work that drew them into the profession in the first place, said Victor Lee, an associate professor at the GSE and faculty lead for the AI + Education initiative at the Stanford Accelerator for Learning. “I’m heartened to see some movement toward creating AI tools that make teachers’ lives better – not to replace them, but to give them the time to do the work that only teachers are able to do,” he said. “I hope to see more on that front.”

He also emphasized the need to teach students now to begin questioning and critiquing the development and use of AI. “AI is not going away,” said Lee, who is also director of CRAFT (Classroom-Ready Resources about AI for Teaching), which provides free resources to help teach AI literacy to high school students across subject areas. “We need to teach students how to understand and think critically about this technology.”

Immersive environments

The use of immersive technologies like augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality is also expected to surge in the classroom, especially as new high-profile devices integrating these realities hit the marketplace in 2024.

The educational possibilities now go beyond putting on a headset and experiencing life in a distant location. With new technologies, students can create their own local interactive 360-degree scenarios, using just a cell phone or inexpensive camera and simple online tools.

“This is an area that’s really going to explode over the next couple of years,” said Kristen Pilner Blair, director of research for the Digital Learning initiative at the Stanford Accelerator for Learning, which runs a program exploring the use of virtual field trips to promote learning. “Students can learn about the effects of climate change, say, by virtually experiencing the impact on a particular environment. But they can also become creators, documenting and sharing immersive media that shows the effects where they live.”

Integrating AI into virtual simulations could also soon take the experience to another level, Schwartz said. “If your VR experience brings me to a redwood tree, you could have a window pop up that allows me to ask questions about the tree, and AI can deliver the answers.”

Gamification

Another trend expected to intensify this year is the gamification of learning activities, often featuring dynamic videos with interactive elements to engage and hold students’ attention.

“Gamification is a good motivator, because one key aspect is reward, which is very powerful,” said Schwartz. The downside? Rewards are specific to the activity at hand, which may not extend to learning more generally. “If I get rewarded for doing math in a space-age video game, it doesn’t mean I’m going to be motivated to do math anywhere else.”

Gamification sometimes tries to make “chocolate-covered broccoli,” Schwartz said, by adding art and rewards to make speeded response tasks involving single-answer, factual questions more fun. He hopes to see more creative play patterns that give students points for rethinking an approach or adapting their strategy, rather than only rewarding them for quickly producing a correct response.

Data-gathering and analysis

The growing use of technology in schools is producing massive amounts of data on students’ activities in the classroom and online. “We’re now able to capture moment-to-moment data, every keystroke a kid makes,” said Schwartz – data that can reveal areas of struggle and different learning opportunities, from solving a math problem to approaching a writing assignment.

But outside of research settings, he said, that type of granular data – now owned by tech companies – is more likely used to refine the design of the software than to provide teachers with actionable information.

The promise of personalized learning is being able to generate content aligned with students’ interests and skill levels, and making lessons more accessible for multilingual learners and students with disabilities. Realizing that promise requires that educators can make sense of the data that’s being collected, said Schwartz – and while advances in AI are making it easier to identify patterns and findings, the data also needs to be in a system and form educators can access and analyze for decision-making. Developing a usable infrastructure for that data, Schwartz said, is an important next step.

With the accumulation of student data comes privacy concerns: How is the data being collected? Are there regulations or guidelines around its use in decision-making? What steps are being taken to prevent unauthorized access? In 2023 K-12 schools experienced a rise in cyberattacks, underscoring the need to implement strong systems to safeguard student data.

Technology is “requiring people to check their assumptions about education,” said Schwartz, noting that AI in particular is very efficient at replicating biases and automating the way things have been done in the past, including poor models of instruction. “But it’s also opening up new possibilities for students producing material, and for being able to identify children who are not average so we can customize toward them. It’s an opportunity to think of entirely new ways of teaching – this is the path I hope to see.”

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Dependence on Tech Caused ‘Staggering’ Education Inequality, U.N. Agency Says

Heavy reliance on online remote learning during the pandemic drew attention away from more equitable ways of teaching children at home, a UNESCO report says.

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Natasha Singer has chronicled the growth of online learning in U.S. public schools for more than a decade.

In early 2020, as the coronavirus spread, schools around the world abruptly halted in-person education. To many governments and parents, moving classes online seemed the obvious stopgap solution.

In the United States, school districts scrambled to secure digital devices for students. Almost overnight, videoconferencing software like Zoom became the main platform teachers used to deliver real-time instruction to students at home.

Now a report from UNESCO , the United Nations’ educational and cultural organization, says that overreliance on remote learning technology during the pandemic led to “staggering” education inequality around the world. It was, according to a 655-page report that UNESCO released on Wednesday, a worldwide “ed-tech tragedy.”

The report, from UNESCO’s Future of Education division, is likely to add fuel to the debate over how governments and local school districts handled pandemic restrictions, and whether it would have been better for some countries to reopen schools for in-person instruction sooner.

The UNESCO researchers argued in the report that “unprecedented” dependence on technology — intended to ensure that children could continue their schooling — worsened disparities and learning loss for hundreds of millions of students around the world, including in Kenya, Brazil, Britain and the United States.

The promotion of remote online learning as the primary solution for pandemic schooling also hindered public discussion of more equitable, lower-tech alternatives, such as regularly providing schoolwork packets for every student, delivering school lessons by radio or television — and reopening schools sooner for in-person classes, the researchers said.

“Available evidence strongly indicates that the bright spots of the ed-tech experiences during the pandemic, while important and deserving of attention, were vastly eclipsed by failure,” the UNESCO report said.

The UNESCO researchers recommended that education officials prioritize in-person instruction with teachers, not online platforms, as the primary driver of student learning. And they encouraged schools to ensure that emerging technologies like A.I. chatbots concretely benefitted students before introducing them for educational use.

Education and industry experts welcomed the report, saying more research on the effects of pandemic learning was needed.

“The report’s conclusion — that societies must be vigilant about the ways digital tools are reshaping education — is incredibly important,” said Paul Lekas, the head of global public policy for the Software & Information Industry Association, a group whose members include Amazon, Apple and Google. “There are lots of lessons that can be learned from how digital education occurred during the pandemic and ways in which to lessen the digital divide. ”

Jean-Claude Brizard, the chief executive of Digital Promise, a nonprofit education group that has received funding from Google, HP and Verizon, acknowledged that “technology is not a cure-all.” But he also said that while school systems were largely unprepared for the pandemic, online education tools helped foster “more individualized, enhanced learning experiences as schools shifted to virtual classrooms.”

​Education International, an umbrella organization for about 380 teachers’ unions and 32 million teachers worldwide, said the UNESCO report underlined the importance of in-person, face-to-face teaching.

“The report tells us definitively what we already know to be true, a place called school matters,” said Haldis Holst, the group’s deputy general secretary. “Education is not transactional nor is it simply content delivery. It is relational. It is social. It is human at its core.”

Here are some of the main findings in the report:

The promise of education technology was overstated.

For more than a decade, Silicon Valley tech giants as well as industry-financed nonprofit groups and think tanks have promoted computers, apps and internet access in public schools as innovations that would quickly democratize and modernize student learning.

Many promised that such digital tools would allow schoolchildren to more easily pursue their interests, learn at their own pace and receive instant automated feedback on their work from learning analytics algorithms.

The report’s findings challenge the view that digital technologies are synonymous with educational equality and progress.

The report said that when coronavirus cases began spiking in early 2020, the overselling of ed-tech tools helped make remote online learning seem like the most appealing and effective solution for pandemic schooling even as more equitable, lower-tech options were available.

Remote online learning worsened education disparities.

UNESCO researchers found the shift to remote online learning tended to provide substantial advantages to children in wealthier households while disadvantaging those in lower-income families.

By May 2020, the report said, 60 percent of national remote learning programs “relied exclusively” on internet-connected platforms. But nearly half a billion young people — about half the primary and secondary students worldwide — targeted by those remote learning programs lacked internet connections at home, the report said, excluding them from participating.

According to data and surveys cited in the report, one-third of kindergarten through 12th-grade students in the United States “were cut off from education” in 2020 because of inadequate internet connections or hardware. In 2021 in Pakistan, 30 percent of households said they were aware of remote learning programs while fewer than half of this group had the technology needed to participate.

Learning was hindered and altered.

Student learning outcomes stalled or “declined dramatically” when schools deployed ed tech as a replacement for in-person instruction, the UNESCO researchers said, even when children had access to digital devices and internet connections.

The report also said students learning online spent considerably less time on formal educational tasks — and more time on monotonous digital tasks. It described a daily learning routine “less of discovery and exploration than traversing file-sharing systems, moving through automated learning content, checking for updates on corporate platforms and enduring long video calls.”

Remote online learning also limited or curtailed student opportunities for socialization and nonacademic activities, the report said, causing many students to become disengaged or drop out of school.

The report warned that the shift to remote learning also gave a handful of tech platforms — like Google and Zoom — extraordinary influence in schools. These digital systems often imposed private business values and agendas, the report added, that were at odds with the “humanistic” values of public schooling.

Regulation and guardrails are needed.

To prevent a repeat scenario, the researchers recommended that schools prioritize the best interests of schoolchildren as the central criteria for deploying ed tech.

In practical terms, the researchers called for more regulation and guardrails around online learning tools. They also suggested that districts give teachers more say over which digital tools schools adopt and how they are used.

Natasha Singer writes about technology, business and society. She is currently reporting on the far-reaching ways that tech companies and their tools are reshaping public schools, higher education and job opportunities. More about Natasha Singer

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In its annual ranking of the nation’s “best states,” U.S. News and World Report gave Florida a noteworthy distinction: the top state for education.

Calling Florida the state with the best educational opportunities may have been surprising to many, as the state has been riven in recent years by debates over book bans, teacher pay and diversity initiatives on college campuses.

But the Sunshine State nonetheless won the top education spot in the national magazine’s ranking, just as it did last year.

Based on No. 1 rankings in both education and the economy, Florida rose to the No. 9 spot on U.S. News' overall list of “best states.”

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So how did it claim the top education spot?

Primarily thanks to the strength of its colleges and universities.

U.S. News based its education rankings on a series of statistics measuring the performance of each state’s preK-12 schools and institutions of higher education.

Florida’s preK-12 schools performed well based on the metrics the magazine uses, ranking at No. 10 nationwide. The magazine examined each state’s preschool enrollment rate, high school graduation rate, middle school reading and math test scores, and how well high school students do on the SAT and similar college-admissions tests.

But where the state shined was in the realm of higher education, where Florida topped the nation in the magazine’s ranking.

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Overall, Florida scored highest in the nation under those metrics. (Read the complete education rankings here .)

With its No. 1 ranking in the higher education realm and No. 10 ranking in preK-12, Florida managed to take the top spot for education overall.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A new mandate that requires school districts across New Mexico to adopt calendars that consist of at least 180 days was put on hold by a judge on Monday while he considers the change’s legality.

Dozens of school districts and superintendents have been challenging the state Public Education Department over the change. Teacher unions and Republican lawmakers also have raised concerns about the rule.

In granting the school districts’ request for a preliminary injunction, Judge Dustin Hunter said the rule undermines the Legislature’s intent when it adopted legislation in 2023 that called for extending the number of hours children spend in the classroom and the time teachers have for professional development.

“If the Legislature had intended to expand the number of days with all the accompanying costs — such as transportation and food and specialty providers such as special education and everything else — it necessarily would have provided the funding or given clear guidance as to why it was unable to,” Hunter said.

The plaintiffs had argued that the requirement would result in budget shortfalls, particularly for districts that have operated on four-day weeks for decades.

“There are 89 different stories in 89 different districts and 89 different ways of getting good education to kids,” testified Stan Rounds, executive director of the New Mexico Coalition of Education Leaders. “They are very different. One size does not fit all.”

State officials contend the change will ultimately improve educational outcomes.

Holly Agajanian, the chief general counsel for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, argued that the school districts would not be harmed if the state is allowed to move forward with implementing the mandate pending a ruling on the merits of the case.

She said the districts could submit budgets with two alternative calendars — one complying with the 180-day rule and one assuming the school does not need to meet the mandate if the districts win their case.

Agajanian told the court that although there have been substantial comments about the rule, the court “should not view it as the opinion of the public, especially when balancing harms.”

Attorneys for the school districts said 98% of the thousands of public comments were against the rule.

Hunter acknowledged that the state has created a Catch-22 in that it is requiring districts to submit budgets and schedules and apply for waivers even though they won’t have the student performance data needed to determine if they are eligible for an exemption.

The courtroom in Roswell was packed Monday, and dozens of school officials, lawmakers and district attorneys tuned into the livestream.

Consideration of the 180-day rule began last year, spurring much opposition. It wasn’t until this year’s legislative session wrapped up that the Public Education Department announced it would be implementing the rule that would take effect July 1.

Public Education Secretary Arsenio Romero told reporters in March that the change was just one of many things his agency was implementing as it works to pull New Mexico up from the bottom of national education rankings. He pointed to structured literacy programs in kindergarten and earlier grades, technical education and internship opportunities for older students and summer programs that can help keep students on track.

Romero had said the agency listened to those who spoke out during a public comment period and that flexibility was built in to allow for four-day weeks — as long as districts could show increases in academic performance.

As for the legislation passed in 2023, New Mexico increased the number of hours students needed to be in school from roughly 1,000 hours to 1,140 hours. The change meant several districts around the state had to lengthen the school day or add more days to meet the requirement. The legislation also allowed space for professional development for teachers within a normal school day.

In the community of Logan, Superintendent Dennis Roch testified that the new rule will result in “astronomical” costs for the tiny district to add 33 days to its calendar to come into compliance. He said the additional cost for teacher salaries, not including any support staff, would total around $388,000 — which exceeds what the district pays to heat, cool and power its buildings.

“It’s just unworkable,” he said of absorbing the costs.

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Did Florida receive all A's on its latest report from U.S. News & World Report? Kind of.

The U.S. News released its ranking of all 50 states , using 71 metrics across eight categories to determine the best states to live in.

Florida placed within the top ten overall best states to live in, particularly excelling in the " Education " category for the second year in a row. In evaluating the best states for education, the U.S. News examined metrics tied to both higher education and the space from pre-kindergarten through high school.

"The quality of a community’s schools can be central to a family’s aspirations," U.S. News writes. "And though public education has largely been a local matter for school boards and states that allocate most of schools’ funding, the federal government has played a large role for the past several decades."

Why is Florida the top state for education?

Out of all 50 states, Florida saw the top spot for education. It was also named the ninth best state to live in overall, going up from last year's placement.

U.S. News highlighted the state's higher education, placing first in the specific subcategory. It's metrics reflect the share of citizens in each state holding college degrees, as well as college graduation rates, the cost of in-state tuition and fees, and the burden of debt that college graduates carry.

"With several large cities, the state also has a sizable system of state universities and community colleges. The University of Florida in Gainesville and Florida State University in Tallahassee have been rivaled in enrollment by the University of South Florida in Tampa, University of Central Florida in Orlando, and Florida International University in Miami. Among the best known private institutions: University of Miami."

As for Pre-K through 12th grades, the state placed 10th overall. This subcategory measures state performance across the life cycle of a young person’s education, encompassing preschool enrollment, standardized test scores among eighth-graders, high school graduation rate and college readiness.

It also notes the state's average high school graduation rate is 87.3%, higher than the country's average of 85.9%.

DeSantis' legislation not reflected in 2024 ranking, U.S. News shares

In a further analysis of the results, U.S. News said addressed the debate around education in Florida and Gov. Ron DeSantis' stance on "woke politics" in schools.

The education metrics used by U.S. News to rank the states tend to focus on aspects of affordability, accessibility and achievement, and the controversial moves DeSantis has made so far may not be reflected there," U.S. News said. "The data used also can lag behind more recent developments due to when it’s released by a source and to the time needed for analysis. Many education metrics are tied to the year 2022, for example, and policy shifts may take time to play out."

While DeSantis' message of "Make America Florida" didn't pander to other states in terms of education, the state sees high marks in the category. For example, in metrics reflecting pre-K through high school, Florida excelled the most in college readiness – an assessment of the share of 12th-graders who scored highly on the SAT, ACT or both. 

However, the analysis mentions critics contend DeSantis’ moves could have lasting effects on the education system and those within it.

What have Florida officials said about the ranking?

In a press release , the Florida Department of Education highlighted the ranking.

“Under Governor DeSantis’ leadership, Florida again ranks number one in education,” Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz, Jr said. “By focusing on core academic subjects and excellence in the classroom, Florida stands ahead of the rest.”

Back in April, DeSantis made a comment about Florida's education while signing HB 1285, which seeks to make it easier for underperforming schools to become charter schools, among other things.

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“Florida is the No. 1 state in the country for education,” DeSantis said . “By focusing on core academic subjects and rejecting indoctrination in the classroom, we have become a standard-bearer for educational excellence. The legislation I signed today continues to build on Florida’s previous accomplishments.”

How did Florida rank in other categories?

The other individual rankings for Florida included the following: 

  • Economy - 1
  • Crime & Corrections - 13
  • Natural Environment - 13
  • Fiscal Stability - 20
  • Infrastructure - 20
  • Health Care - 26
  • Opportunity - 45

What are the top 10 best states for education in the country?

Here is what states follow Florida in education:

  • Massachusetts
  • Connecticut
  • New Hampshire

What is the 'worst' U.S. state for education?

New Mexico placed 50th in overall education for the country, getting last place for Pre-K through 12 and 21th place for higher education.

New Mexico is home to only about a dozen four-year, degree-granting institutions but the ranking notes Albuquerque, the largest city in New Mexico, is home to one of the state's largest universities and employers, the University of New Mexico.

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“We’re already all pinching pennies. It was that big health insurance cost every month that I thought was the one place where, at least for now, fingers crossed, I can do without so that I can tackle this loan payment,” said Grace, who is 39 and works in marketing communications in Nebraska. “Of course, that could change in an instant, and that’s scary.”

But this week, Grace got the news she'd been in financial limbo over for months — her federal loans were being forgiven, wiping out a roughly $300 a month payment, under a Biden administration plan to clear the loan balances for those who have been making payments for at least 20 years.

After the Supreme Court rejected President Joe Biden’s sweeping debt forgiveness proposal and a Covid-era pause on student loan payments expired , millions of borrowers have been faced with tough financial choices and a web of new debt relief plans and administrative delays that have left many in limbo over if and when their debt will be forgiven, said student debt counselors and borrowers.

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions,” said Betsy Mayotte, the head of the Institute of Student Loan Advisors, a nonprofit that provides free student loan advice. “I have seen a significant number of borrowers who have had relief, but on the flip side, because everything has had to happen really fast, it’s also caused some confusion for borrowers and it’s caused some bumps in the road.”

But the effects of that relief are starting to be felt by more borrowers like Grace, something the Biden campaign is working to capitalize on in the months leading up to the election.

Biden’s efforts to provide relief to student loan borrowers has been a top policy priority during his time in office. The Biden administration says it has provided student debt relief to 4.6 million Americans through more than two dozen different programs, including fixes to a pre-existing loan forgiveness program for public service workers, erasing debt for borrowers defrauded or misled by their school and expanding debt forgiveness for people with disabilities.

Last month, Biden proposed additional plans he said would reduce or erase the student loan debts for millions more as early as this fall, an Education Department official said.

But many borrowers have struggled to make sense of what all those initiatives mean for them or see the full benefits as some programs continue to be implemented, said Robert Farrington, who counsels student loan borrowers and is editor-in-chief of the website The College Investor.

“There is a firehose of announcements and new programs and so many various nuances to all of these things. There’s different repayment plans, there’s different forgiveness programs, different lawsuits,” said Farrington. “It’s hard for borrowers to even know what applies to them. It’s so confusing.”

Education Department officials say borrowers who believe they are eligible for debt relief but haven’t received it yet should contact their loan servicer or the department ombudsman ’ s office .

Amid the confusion, the Biden campaign has been seeking to show the real-world impact on borrowers who have received debt forgiveness in its pitch to voters for a second term, a campaign official said. Biden and other top administration officials have fanned out across the country to tout their efforts.

In one instance, Biden visited the home of a former school principal in North Carolina who had $90,000 in debt erased under the public service loan forgiveness program, a decades-old program the Biden administration has made changes to in order for more borrowers to qualify. A TikTok video of the visit made by the man’s son got millions of views.

Still, the majority of voters have said they disapproved of Biden’s handling of the student loan issue — with 44% approving, making it Biden’s strongest area among registered voters, according to an NBC News poll last month. In a separate poll by the Harvard Institute of Politics, just 39% of voters under age 30 said they approved of the job Biden has done on student loans. But like in the NBC poll, it was a higher approval rating than on other key issues.

The campaign official said it will take more time and aggressive messaging to get the attention of voters, whom the campaign believes are not yet paying close attention to the election. The campaign is also seeking to contrast Biden’s policies with those of former President Donald Trump, who has opposed student debt relief programs and actively sought to eliminate funding for them while president.

Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., a close Biden ally, said he expects tens of thousands of additional borrowers to see debt relief ahead of the election as Biden’s programs continue to be implemented, giving the campaign more opportunities to highlight the contrast with Trump’s opposition to such programs, he said.

“Who do you want to put in charge of that program?” Clyburn said in an interview with NBC News. “The guy who refused to implement it?”

Biden “has implemented the program that [Trump] tried to get rid of,” Clyburn continued.

But for the millions of borrowers not eligible to have their debt cleared, they have been required to make payments since October, creating an additional financial strain for many. Around 40% of borrowers who have resumed payments said they are cutting back on spending while 29% said they were reducing the amount they were saving, according to a University of Michigan survey released in January.

The survey found that borrowers who had lower incomes, less education and weaker income prospects were more likely to increase their use of credit to maintain their spending amid the resumption of loan payments.

Others have opted not to make their payments. Around 64% of borrowers who had payments due were current on their student loan payments as of the end of December, according to the Department of Education.

The Biden administration has said it will hold off until this fall on enforcing the harshest penalties for nonpayment, like reporting delinquent borrowers to credit rating agencies and using forced collections.

Mayotte said a number of borrowers she works with have been holding off on making their payments because they can’t afford them or have opted to use the money to pay down higher-interest debt or to invest in high-yield savings or investing accounts until the administration’s nonpayment penalties kick in.

Once that happens, the wider implications of the restart in payments could be felt, but so far it hasn’t appeared to have had a significant impact on the wider economy, according to an analysis by Wells Fargo.

For Grace, who took out around $40,000 in private and federal loans to attend a four-year public university in 2003, she said her monthly loan payments have been a heavy burden on her finances since she first started making them more than a decade ago.

At the start of her career, her loan payments amounted to more than 15% of her take-home pay, preventing her from being able to build up an emergency fund for unexpected costs, like a car repair, and causing her to rack up credit card debt. For years, she said, she had to work a second job on the weekends to cover her expenses.

But her financial picture drastically changed during the pandemic when the Covid payment pause began. Without that monthly loan payment, she said she was able to start building up her savings and pay off credit card debt. Eventually, she was able to buy her first home.

“Prior to that pause, things were pretty dire,” Grace said. “And so this gave me the opportunity to really finally start to catch up. It’s amazing what happens when you don’t have hundreds of dollars month after month going to this.”

Grace said she knew the payment would eventually restart and didn’t take on any additional monthly expenses. But with inflation driving up the cost of everything from groceries to utilities, the resumption of the payment was an even bigger strain on her budget than before.

When it came time for the payments to restart in October on the $10,000 she still owes, Grace was also making a decision about signing up for her employer’s health insurance plan for 2024. She opted to take the risk of going without health insurance to continue making progress on paying down her debt.

With her federal loan payment now forgiven, she knows what she will do with the extra next month.

“I won’t be going to Target with that money, I won’t be going on vacation,” she said. “I will be enrolling in health insurance.”

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MIT senior Owen Dugan, graduate student Vittorio Colicci ’22, predoctoral research fellow Carine You ’22, and recent alumna Carina Letong Hong ’22 are recipients of this year’s Knight-Hennessy Scholarships. The competitive fellowship, now in its seventh year, funds up to three years of graduate studies in any field at Stanford University. To date, 22 MIT students and alumni have been awarded Knight-Hennessy Scholarships.

“We are excited for these students to continue their education at Stanford with the generous support of the Knight Hennessy Scholarship,” says Kim Benard, associate dean of distinguished fellowships in Career Advising and Professional Development. “They have all demonstrated extraordinary dedication, intellect, and leadership, and this opportunity will allow them to further hone their skills to make real-world change.”

Vittorio Colicci ’22

Vittorio Colicci, from Trumbull, Connecticut, graduated from MIT in May 2022 with a BS in aerospace engineering and physics. He will receive his master’s degree in planetary sciences this spring. At Stanford, Colicci will pursue a PhD in earth and planetary sciences at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He hopes to investigate how surface processes on Earth and Mars have evolved through time alongside changes in habitability. Colicci has worked largely on spacecraft engineering projects, developing a monodisperse silica ceramic for electrospray thrusters and fabricating high-energy diffraction gratings for space telescopes. As a Presidential Graduate Fellow at MIT, he examined the influence of root geometry on soil cohesion for early terrestrial plants using 3D-printed reconstructions. Outside of research, Colicci served as co-director of TEDxMIT and propulsion lead for the MIT Rocket Team. He is also passionate about STEM engagement and outreach, having taught educational workshops in Zambia and India.

Owen Dugan, from Sleepy Hollow, New York, is a senior majoring in physics. As a Knight-Hennessy Scholar, he will pursue a PhD in computer science at the Stanford School of Engineering. Dugan aspires to combine artificial intelligence and physics, developing AI that enables breakthroughs in physics and using physics techniques to design more capable and safe AI systems. He has collaborated with researchers from Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and DeepMind, and has presented his first-author research at venues including the International Conference on Machine Learning, the MIT Mechanistic Interpretability Conference, and the American Physical Society March Meeting. Among other awards, Dugan is a Hertz Finalist, a U.S. Presidential Scholar, an MIT Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awardee, a Research Science Institute Scholar, and a Neo Scholar. He is also a co-founder of VeriLens, a funded startup enabling trust on the internet by cryptographically verifying digital media.

Carina Letong Hong ’22

Carina Letong Hong, from Canton, China, is currently pursuing a JD/PhD in mathematics at Stanford. A first-generation college student, Hong graduated from MIT in May 2022 with a double major in mathematics and physics and was inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honor society. She then earned a neuroscience master’s degree with dissertation distinctions from the University of Oxford, where she conducted artificial intelligence and machine learning research at Sainsbury Wellcome Center’s Gatsby Unit. At Stanford Law School, Hong provides legal aid to low-income workers and uses economic analysis to push for law enforcement reform. She has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals, served as an expert referee for journals and conferences, and spoken at summits in the United States, Germany, France, the U.K., and China. She was the recipient of the AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research, the highest honor for an undergraduate in mathematics in North America; the AWM Alice T. Schafer Prize for Mathematical Excellence, given annually to an undergraduate woman in the United States; the Maryam Mirzakhani Fellowship; and a Rhodes Scholarship.

Carine You ’22

Carine You, from San Diego, California, graduated from MIT in May 2022 with bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer science and in mathematics. Since graduating, You has worked as a predoctoral research assistant with Professor Amy Finkelstein in the MIT Department of Economics, where she has studied the quality of Medicare nursing home care and the targeting of medical screening technologies. This fall, You will embark on a PhD in economic analysis and policy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She wishes to address pressing issues in environmental and health-care markets, with a particular focus on economic efficiency and equity. You previously developed audio signal processing algorithms at Bose, refined mechanistic models to inform respiratory monitoring at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, and analyzed corruption in developmental projects in India at the World Bank. Through Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow, she taught computer science to Israeli and Palestinian students in Jerusalem and spearheaded an online pilot expansion for the organization. At MIT, she was named a Burchard Scholar.

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