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Who is 2026’s Wisest Wonk? Cast your vote in this year’s Wonkathon before polls close November 11

The polls are now open. Everyone will have until 1:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, November 11, to pick a favorite. We’ll then tally everything up and announce our first-, second-, and third-place winners in the Thursday, November 12, edition of the Education Gadfly Weekly.

*1.Who is 2026’s Wisest Wonk?(Required.)

State chiefs, you can’t sit this one out, by Jessica Baghian and Kunjan Narechania

Assuming a frictionless surface: We need a revolution in how we approach “evidence” for ed tech, by Thomas Briggs

Every digital tool in schools should have to earn its place, by Jean-Claude Brizard

Every school already has a technology policy. Student learning should guide it, by Bailey Cato Czupryk

Parent dialogue and radical transparency: A school-by-school, responsive approach to digital technology use, by Bridget K. Cherry

In service of learning: Expanding opportunity safely and with intentionality, by Lisa Coons

Free readers, free people: What schools should protect, by Ila Deshmukh Towery

We raised the bar for curriculum. Let’s not let technology undo that progress, by Lindsay Dworkin

Evaluate the product team, not just the product, by Emily Freitag

Tending the ed tech ecosystem, by Pamela J. Hobart

We solved for access. Now communities must define the boundaries, by Cliff Jones and Lee James

Is the technology in your classroom advancing or diminishing student capabilities?, by Caitlin Lucas

The right contract makes ed tech prove itself, by Brittany Miller

Three pillars for digital technology in schools, and everything else left to communities, by Alice Mueller

Subsidiarity as a guiding ed-tech principle, by Josiah Padley

Apply premises liability principles to ed tech, by Jordan Posamentier

Let’s actually educate today’s learners, not deskill them, by Patrick Riccards

The education technology debate is missing students with disabilities, by Saashya Rodrigo and Nicole Fuller

Rule for tech in education, by Selim Tlili

Artificial intelligence should help us become more human, by Rochelle Van Dijk

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