The High Cost of Quiet Classrooms (Shael Polakow-Suransky)

🫧 Open on Bubbles The following article appeared in The New York Times , June 8, 2026. Mr. Polakow-Suransky is President of the Bank Street College of Education in New York City Last year, I visited a seventh-grade math classroom in a public school in the Bronx. Twenty students sat bent over laptops, working with an A.I. tutor on story problems about converting fractions to decimals. A teacher moved around the room, checking a dashboard that tracked how many tries each student needed to reach the right answ