MindShift

10/17/2026

In August, OpenAI rolled out its ChatGPT for Teens. Experts at Common Sense recommend teens don't use it. Here's why.

A study from Common Sense Media says most safeguards in ChatGPT for Teens failed. The chatbot talks to teens like a friend and doesn't alert parents when users talk about self-harm and su***de.

10/17/2026

The federal Civil Rights Data Collection, for the first time in decades, tells us about the teacher workforce and reminds us racial disparities are still stark in American public schools.
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/66683/enrollment-discipline-disabilities-5-things-civil-rights-data-says-about-public-schools

10/17/2026

Illustration by Sylvia Duckworth

10/16/2026

Regardless of where and how these labels are applied, most children will, from an early age, develop a sense of how their teachers see them, experts say.

edweek.org/leadership/student-labels-stick-what-teachers-should-do-instead/2026/10

Labeling students starts early, and the damage may linger. Experts offer alternatives.

10/16/2026

If daily screen negotiations have become an exhausting cycle of nagging and pushback, it’s time for a change. Here's a framework to avoid daily power struggles.

Struggling with your teen's device habits? Dr. Laura shares how parents can shift from screen police to effective collaborators.

10/16/2026

How can we respond fairly to a fight (even if we didn’t see it), and help our children learn to sort things out themselves?

10/15/2026

Sometimes, educators think they only have two options: Move ahead with full steam or be actionless. But there are a lot of possibilities between these two binary options.

With the right anchors in place, educators can hold steady in pursuing justice when storms of contention arise.

10/15/2026

A decades-long increase in the number of employees on campuses who don’t actually teach — disparaged by critics as “administrative bloat” — is starting to reverse, new data suggests.

After years of growing, new data suggests ‘administrative bloat’ may be reversing

10/15/2026

Despite the proliferation of data and increasingly sophisticated statistical methods, it remains difficult to untangle an elementary school’s effect from the many other factors that shape student learning.

Many parents want to know how much a school helps children learn. For elementary schools, even our best measures can struggle to answer that question.

10/14/2026

This activity helps students read carefully and analytically while applying the core traits of a Shakespearean sonnet.

By prompting an AI chatbot to craft a Shakespearean sonnet, then auditing its fidelity to the form, students get a crash course in close reading (and a healthy dose of AI skepticism).