PISA 2025: Poland’s good score is only the start of the school conversation

Poland ranks highly in PISA 2025. Paweł Maranowski explains what the ranking leaves out: school belonging, phone use and what students learn when AI does the work.

Adam Przymusiała travelled to meet a university representative. The conversation went well, and the two were soon on first-name terms.

Ewelina Kurtys deleted the Instagram app. She kept TikTok to publish her own videos, but stopped watching other people's content.

Stephen Hodges, CEO of Efekta Education, on affordable personal tutoring, the work of introducing AI into schools, and the evidence we need before calling it a success.

Eight digital tools, 720 classes, and three comparison groups. Poland's Educational Research Institute wants to see whether EdTech and AI deliver more than a wow effect.

A conversation with 17-year-old founder Adam Gerin about brain rot, ambition, AI, responsibility, and the difficult transition from consuming the internet to building something of your own.

AI can help us notice patterns in our lives. But can it recognize the moment when a seemingly absurd idea becomes the right one?

AI is transforming education at a time when systems are already stretched thin. We face teacher shortages, student disengagement, rising dropout rates, and an impending wave of job disruption. In his conversation on the EdTech Dots Podcast, Greg Margas articulated a tension that many builders experience. We are overwhelmed by ideas and hype, yet we often lack focus on the few things that will truly matter in the next decade. This article extracts several key themes from Greg’

What does your world become when you have thoughts , needs , desires , opinions — but no way to express them? This question sat quietly at the center of my conversation with Elżbieta Dawidek , a speech therapist, researcher, and one of Poland’s leading specialists in AAC (augmentative and alternative communication). Ela spends her days doing something that sounds simple but is, in practice, revolutionary: She gives people a way to communicate when their own bodies won’t. And

EdTech Dots — Episode with Paulina Krukowska The education technology sector is growing fast — but many EdTech products still fail long before reaching real classrooms. After speaking with hundreds of founders, teachers, and school leaders, one theme keeps repeating: Most EdTech tools are built without understanding the actual needs of teachers and students. In this episode of EdTech Dots , I talk with Paulina Krukowska — a senior digital marketing strategist with 15+ years

What if school is the thing that keeps a child alive inside? In this conversation, Marwa Zahr — Implementation & Practitioner Lead at World Child Alliance and 2024 Yidan Prize laureate — shares a rare, honest look at education in the harshest places on earth and the EdTech choices that actually work there. Marwa’s story starts before her own: with her mother, a ninth-grader in Lebanon in 1981, whose schooling ended when the windows shook and classmates stopped showing up. “He

Ever witnessed a talented leader’s voice vanish—right when it matters most? That moment is more dramatic, and more common, than you...