Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ray Ravaglia covers education, focusing on technology and innovation. Amira Learning, the six-year-old provider of AI-driven ...

The classroom is noisy, but the kids aren’t misbehaving. At a school in Gretna, about a dozen first graders are sitting at their desks, laptops open and headsets on. The setup makes them look like ...

Cassie Fleming’s first grade daughter came home from school last August complaining about someone named Amira. “She doesn’t let me finish my sentences — she doesn’t listen,” Fleming said her daughter ...

Lilly Garcia is learning to read. Her tutor is a robot. On a Friday morning in her combination second- and third-grade class at Matheson Park Elementary School, Garcia reads a story about a rabbit and ...