Between homeschool provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill and Trump’s attempts to gut the Department of Education, teaching kids looks different now. Silicon Valley’s answer? Microschools.https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-tech-moguls-microschools/
From calculators to ChatGPT, the introduction of new technology into schools has long inspired frenzied discourse: Will it revolutionize the system or rot kids’ brains? It often does neither.https://www.wired.com/story/photo-essay-school-tech-hysteria/
For years, smartphones and computers have threatened to erase writing by hand. Would that be so bad?https://www.wired.com/story/the-end-of-handwriting/
Since the start of the AI boom, teachers have been tasked with figuring out if LLMs are helpful tools or a cheat code. This is how they’re bringing AI to their curricula.https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-using-ai-schools/
Parents, teachers, and experts have big opinions about the impacts of AI on young people and education. But what do the students themselves say?https://www.wired.com/story/what-kids-think-about-ai-schools/
Young people entering classrooms this fall need a totally different tool set than the generations before them.https://www.wired.com/generation-ipad/
More Americans are choosing to put off having children—or not having them at all. The Ivys are an exception: “It is hard. But it’s not impossible.”https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/children-costs-finances-families-f489be7c?mod=rss_markets_main
How well do you think you know the stock market? Put your knowledge to the test.https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/are-you-a-stock-market-genius-take-our-quiz-451740eb?mod=rss_markets_main
Corporate profits are on track for a double-digit climb, led by the tech sector.https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/strong-crop-of-earnings-eases-investors-economic-concerns-7acc1772?mod=rss_markets_main
Earnings are due from big-box retailers this week, followed by the Jackson Hole gathering of central bankershttps://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-08-18-2025?mod=rss_markets_main
How some restaurant chains are defying the consumer gloom playing out in fast food.https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/the-chilis-economy-is-here-whats-behind-the-casual-dining-boom-9722cef5?mod=rss_markets_main
What I want is a device to clean up late after a dinner party so I can go to bed.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-coming-robot-home-invasion-82ff1218
There are better ways of fighting the drug cartels—and Claudia Sheinbaum will help.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/dont-bomb-mexico-mr-president-75bcc45f
A good or bad agreement may depend on the quality of Western security guarantees.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-kind-of-peace-in-ukraine-russia-summit-trump-putin-f5daf72f
Nearly 12 million enrollees don’t bother to use their subsidized insurance. Health insurers get the benefit.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-phantom-patients-of-obamacare-d875e2ae
The Teamsters offer a ‘privilege’ card with, er, sky-high interest rates.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/sean-obrien-has-a-credit-card-for-you-4e2a0789
That’s what will happen if he produces overly optimistic inflation numbers.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/will-e-j-antoni-raise-your-taxes-77170e73
A chatbot can summarize existing knowledge. New knowledge requires the spark of human creativity.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ai-wont-replace-historians-3b68751c
The U.S. should veto the Security Council resolution to extend Unifil’s mandate.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/time-to-shut-down-the-failed-u-n-lebanon-mission-7075a0ff
The Republican’s ambition is to force prices even lower than the IRA.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-trump-biden-mind-meld-on-price-controls-rebate-payments-drugs-e3147426