Author: Derek Tranchina

By now, we’ve all endured a great deal of hype surrounding AI in Education. This fast-evolving space is cluttered with “AI evangelists” touting the next big tip, trick, or game-changing app. With so much noise, it’s becoming hard to distinguish between true innovations and those designed only to garner likes…

In the spring of 1964, Harvard researcher Robert Rosenthal approached a San Francisco Elementary School with a research proposal. He claimed to have created a special new assessment called the “Harvard Test of Inflected Acquisition” that could identify students with superior academic potential at an early age. He planned to…

This article was originally published in the Spring ’24 Edition of NJPSA’s Magazine Educational Viewpoints in March, 2024. In 1958, American engineer John Kilby invented the integrated circuit, or “the chip,” paving the way for the evolution of large machines into handheld, compact devices. The personal calculator quickly became a…