Within the quarter century since Schooling Subsequent’s launch as a quarterly print journal, American educators have of necessity tailored to a sequence of recent digital applied sciences that current each alternatives and threats for scholar studying. Smartphones and tablets supplied fast entry to a wealth of wealthy multimedia academic content material—and an countless array of distractions. Zoom faculty made it attainable to ship dwell instruction on the top of the Covid-19 pandemic, however on-line coursework was hardly ever as efficient as studying in individual. And whereas Generative AI could quickly make it possible to supply every baby one thing akin to a customized tutor, college students are already utilizing it to dump the cognitive effort that results in enduring studying (or just to cheat).
Every of those improvements has proved a combined blessing. None have been harnessed to enhance scholar studying at scale. But ignoring them was, usually, not attainable. Few educators have the choice to maintain on doing the identical factor of their lecture rooms as the data surroundings exterior of faculties is remodeled.
The identical is true of publications that search to form coverage and observe in American faculties, which is why the Summer season 2025 problem you at the moment are studying would be the ultimate print version of Schooling Subsequent. Following its publication, we can be ending our print operations and focusing our energies completely on the journal’s web site.
We now have deliberated over this risk for a number of years, and it isn’t with out remorse that we now make the choice. We’re proud that the print version of Schooling Subsequent has been among the many studying supplies readily available for guests to the Workplace of the U.S. Secretary on the seventh flooring of the U.S. Division of Schooling throughout every presidential administration since George W. Bush—to not point out in dozens of legislative places of work in Washington, D.C., and state capitols. The editors of Schooling Subsequent are additionally authors, and we all know the fun of seeing one’s phrases laid out on a printed web page. And we’re grateful to the 1000’s of subscribers who, together with beneficiant donors, have sustained our operations over the previous 25 years.
But we’re assured that now could be the fitting time for this shift in our publication technique. Because of regular development in our on-line viewers, print subscribers to Schooling Subsequent now characterize a small fraction of our total readership. Changing into an online-only publication subsequently presents the chance to align our editorial processes and rhythms to the format wherein the overwhelming majority of readers devour our content material. The time and assets demanded to supply a high-quality print publication are immense, and it is sensible to redeploy them towards growing further content material and enhancing readers’ expertise on our web site.
