Reflections from New York on what education owes a person and why the answer matters for the way we fund, build and use technology. By Jonathan Frederick Founder, STAARK Educational Solutions September 17, 2026 At the Back to School Summit in New York on Thursday, I...
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The question is not simply whether schools should use artificial intelligence. It is whether they can build the judgment, safeguards and daily practices that make it worth using. By Jonathan FrederickSeptember 15, 2026 During a...
Higher education is fracturing. Funding is disappearing.Non-profits are fighting to survive. A generation isasking whether learning still matters and in the middleof all of it, there is a child. There is always a child. Was it selfishness, or selflessness? Are we...
AI Didn’t Break American Education It Just Exposed What Was Already Broken. The core argument in brief: AI did not create the crisis in American education. It revealed one that has been building for decades. Students who reach for AI are not failing morally;...
This week, my heart is heavy. As the conflict in Iran continues to escalate, with strikes, missile exchanges, and the cascading disruption of an entire region; I find myself thinking, as I always do in moments like these, about the children. About the classrooms...
Every year, well-funded education programs enter schools with strong evidence, genuine enthusiasm, and real potential. And every year, most of them quietly disappear. Not because the programs were wrong. Not because the schools didn’t care. Not because the...
