Is a 4 year degree worth it? Maybe. But many policymakers think not. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

Is the Trump Administration using #SchoolChoice to empower states? Or to force their hand? @chrislub.bsky.social www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Report Provides Useful but Incomplete Portrait of Universal #SchoolVouchers. @chrislub.bsky.social nepc.colorado.edu/review/unive...

New special issue is on "The Rise of Education Marketization & the Enduring Enigma of School Segregation" with Ee-Seul Yoon, & great commentary from @efrankenberg.bsky.social journals.sfu.ca/ijepl/index....

www.theguardian.com/education/20... Ministers plan to turbocharge their school improvement programme to tackle regional inequalities, aiming to export the success of London’s high-achieving pupils to England’s most struggling schools.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u... As the Trump administration has publicly targeted elite universities, it has also quietly pursued funding cuts for the nation’s tribal colleges, which rely on federal dollars to operate.

HopSkipDrive says it helps schools solve difficult transportation issues involving long distances and vulnerable kids, while also putting parents at ease. But the rideshare service doesn’t necessarily come cheap.

“I think history is so important. Even from a former English teacher, if you don't have the history, you have a very hard time understanding the literature,” said Mary Werner, the lone member of the Mississippi State Board of Education to vote against axing the U.S. history assessment.

#Unesco Integrating education initiatives within Ghana’s national nutrition framework 🥦 🧠 💯 buff.ly/rbTzKLp "Key strategies include community-based behaviour change communication, leveraging school meals for educational and nutritional benefits... "

Just released: our 2025 rankings of think tanks (& individuals) in #EdPolicy based on influence & expertise. In many instances, influence is not particularly connected to expertise. For this 2nd annual version, we also considered political leanings. education.indiana.edu/ceep/educati...

www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... The news sent shock waves through higher education and could lead to a major reduction in foreign students at American universities, especially public research institutions.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/n... The move was an expansion of the Trump administration’s efforts to punish states and public school districts for liberal stances on contentious education issues, and reflects a marked shift in the federal government’s interpretation of civil rights law.

hechingerreport.org/so-much-for-... As the class of 2025 enters the workforce, the Trump administration has dismantled career pathways for graduates interested in climate and sustainability work, international aid, public service and research across the natural, behavioral and social sciences.

OPINION: Davis L. Di Mario writes on how the Trump administration's termination of immigration statuses for international students could have economic consequences.

Midtown Partner’s Farm to Community initiative has served nearly 400 underserved elementary and middle school students and more than 2,000 Jackson residents since its start, distributing hundreds of pounds of vegetables. Now, the program is under threat from Trump’s funding cuts.

With a hefty endowment tax likely, Swarthmore College is budgeting for just the first three months of the new fiscal year until more details become clear. chroni.cl/43bEX4A

New from @josephinelee.bsky.social: A state Senate education bill offers just $55 in additional funding per student, a paltry sum (even compared to the House version). Public school advocates and superintendents say its not nearly enough to cover their deficits.

Read our latest policy brief from CEEP director @chrislub.bsky.social and @tjamesonbrewer.bsky.social

New York University is withholding the diploma of a graduation speaker who delivered an unapproved speech on Wednesday that referred to what he called “the atrocities currently happening in Palestine.” The university says he “violated the commitment he made to comply with our rules.”

www.edweek.org/policy-polit... "Education leaders shouldn’t remain apolitical in the face of serious threats from the Trump administration" - Alex Marrero

The Trump administration has tightened funding access for grant recipients, laid off Office of Head Start employees, disbanded Head Start’s regional offices in mostly blue states and territories, and fired staff from the office that oversees basic needs programs like Head Start.

America’s grading system has been largely stable for decades, but Joe Feldman has shifted many schools’ practices in just a few years

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u... President Trump’s budget proposal would shrink the Education Department, which he has called on Congress to eliminate, by slashing its funding by 15%, or $12 billion. The most significant chunk of that reduction, about $4.5 billion, would come from K-12 schools

hechingerreport.org/in-some-stat... State leaders, taking cues from Elon Musk, are cutting higher education budgets.The efforts coincide with other state-level measures intended to rein in colleges and universities

www.latimes.com/california/s... The American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of six early childhood organizations, has sued the Trump administration to halt the dismantling of Head Start and restore cuts to the program, alleging that the actions required congressional approval.

Listen to the latest episode of @haveyouheard.bsky.social with hosts @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social and @jackschneider.bsky.social with special guest @profhicks.bsky.social discussing schools in Indiana, and how Trump is using them as a model for a new right-wing vision of education.

Dartmouth College, the only Ivy League university that did not sign a letter condemning the Trump administration for trying to dictate policies and pausing billions of dollars in federal funding, said doing so would not have been an effective way to defend its mission and values.

In order to secure a share of federal funding, Idaho administrators will have to state, in writing, that their schools are following federal anti-discrimination law. #idaho #idleg www.idahoednews.org/news/critchf...

www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l... "“It might not always be families leaving for private schools, it could be families already in private schools now taking vouchers,” - quote from CEEP director @chrislub.bsky.social

From @josephinelee.bsky.social: Opposition to vouchers came from across both sides of the aisle, despite the vote this week to pass them.

IUB Professor and CEEP faculty affiliate @drjanetrdecker.bsky.social signed onto this amicus brief to the Supreme Court regarding the case over religious charter schools. Read it below: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Read our latest policy brief, based on research by Rob Higham, @jakeanders.uk, Gabriel Chouhy, @francisgreen1.bsky.social, Golo Henseke, and @ruthmcginity.bsky.social education.indiana.edu/ceep/educati...

hechingerreport.org/special-educ... How might dismantling the Education Department alter services for students with disabilities?

www.edweek.org/policy-polit... Education Secretary McMahon told states that their time to spend COVID relief money had come to an end—canceling extensions the department had previously granted to states to allow schools more time to spend the money on previously planned projects and services.

www.edsurge.com/news/2025-03... Legal experts say that the St. Isidore case represents a potentially radical shift for both the charter school movement and for the American understanding of the separation between religious instruction and publicly-funded schools.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o... "As a consequence of massive job cuts McMahon has enacted so far, she has hobbled the federal government’s ability to gather statistics on student achievement, effective teaching practices and student literacy."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "The threat of council bankruptcies should focus minds on the need for a failing system to be reformed"

The federal government plans to review funding awarded to healthcare providers affiliated with Harvard’s medical school. Nearly 12,000 Harvard faculty members are based across these affiliate providers. chroni.cl/4leYLe3

www.latimes.com/world-nation... The Trump administration has suspended about $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over a transgender swimmer who last competed for the school in 2022, the White House said Wednesday.

Featured: “It’s more government, more bureaucracy, more money, and there’s no oversight. And it’s taxation without representation,. The taxpayers don’t get to pick who these private companies are that our tax dollars are going into. So that is not a free market.”

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw... New South Wales is the only Australian state that doesn’t fund endometriosis and pain workshops for public school students despite research revealing one in four girls miss classes due to period pain.

Some of the University of Utah researchers had been studying how best to care for critically ill babies in rural communities. Others were focused on reducing the disproportionately high rates of skin cancer in those same remote areas. But the majority of the funding for that work is now cut.

Join us tomorrow at the Wendell Wright Education Building!

The federal agency on Monday restored online application forms for income-driven repayment plans. (via @kutnews.bsky.social)

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/u... The largest-ever class of high school seniors is about to graduate, just as colleges are facing major upheaval. Here’s what they could face as they head to campus.

The introductory classes that all Utah college students must take will get a major rewrite — starting with Utah State — to focus on Western civilization, under a bill Gov. Spencer Cox signed into law.

Read our latest policy report authored by Moaaz Hamid, Dr. Michele Moore, and @chrislub.bsky.social education.indiana.edu/ceep/educati...

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u... Basic information about schools, along with research about how to improve them, seems most likely to be degraded or to disappear entirely. Many of those who were laid off worked on projects evaluating subjects like math and reading instruction and disability supports

hechingerreport.org/schools-are-... In some cases, the technology has outed LGBTQ+ children and eroded trust between students and school staff