Educators Talk Cell Phones, AI at Senate Hearing on K-12 Learning

Educators talk cell phones, AI at Senate hearing on K-12 learning

Washington, D.C. (NEXSTAR) -- At a hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill, U.S. senators and educators from around the country agreed students should be doing better in school and discussed potential solutions. The hearing focused on the current state of K-12 education.  "The decline in test scores started before the pandemic and has continued after the pandemic," Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said at the hearing, hosted by the Senate Health, Education…

Decline in K-12 national reading, math, science scores probed by US Senate panel

Katie Jenner, Indiana's secretary of Education and the state's commissioner for higher education, testifies during a hearing in the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Sept. 18, 2025. (Screenshot from committee livestream)WASHINGTON — Just days after federal data revealed average reading, math and science scores dropped among certain grades since before the coronavirus pandemic, a U.S. Senate panel on Thursday picke…