Within the quarter century since Training 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 provided rapid entry to a wealth of wealthy multimedia instructional content material—and an infinite array of distractions. Zoom faculty made it attainable to ship reside instruction on the top of the Covid-19 pandemic, however on-line coursework was hardly ever as efficient as studying in particular person. And whereas Generative AI could quickly make it possible to supply every youngster 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 blended blessing. None have been harnessed to enhance scholar studying at scale. But ignoring them was, most often, not attainable. Few educators have the choice to maintain on doing the identical factor of their school rooms as the knowledge atmosphere outdoors of colleges is reworked.
The identical is true of publications that search to form coverage and observe in American faculties, which is why the Summer season 2025 concern you at the moment are studying would be the ultimate print version of Training Subsequent. Following its publication, we will likely be ending our print operations and focusing our energies totally on the journal’s web site.
We’ve got 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 Training Subsequent has been among the many studying supplies available for guests to the Workplace of the U.S. Secretary on the seventh ground of the U.S. Division of Training 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 Training 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 hundreds 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 progress in our on-line viewers, print subscribers to Training Subsequent now signify a small fraction of our total readership. Turning into an online-only publication due to this fact 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 sources demanded to provide a high-quality print publication are immense, and it is sensible to redeploy them towards creating extra content material and enhancing readers’ expertise on our web site.
