Keen insights here. She describes well some classroom dynamics that are very hard to explain but yet you can immediately feel when you’re in a classroom

Four‑day school weeks are gaining traction—but do they deliver on their promises? Hear new findings from @nwea.bsky.social's Emily Morton & @annenberginstitute.bsky.social's @andrewmcamp.com on April 22 at 1 PM ET. Register: bit.ly/4rNbwP3

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Enrollment at Illinois public K-12 schools is down 10% over the past decade. Will some schools have to close? ipmnewsroom.org/enrollment-a... (Yes, though if you're not also prepared to offload the property & downsize the staff you're going to have big fights with relatively little to show for it.)

Regardless of how you might feel about ESA programs, the opportunity to examine transaction-level spending data in education, and at the student-level to boot, is pretty interesting. It's a lot of data, though! www.edchoice.org/2026-is-ariz...

Happy belated ESSER liquidation to all who celebrate... 😉 Seriously, agree with takes here. Let's hope we start building the data infrastructure to track #education spending more systematically/seamlessly, so that we have a better sense of what worked and what didn't www.k12dive.com/news/esser-p...

Love this explainer. That short-term costs are “sticky” is a tenet of basic economics, but this shows just what that means in schooling: substack.com/home/post/p-...

In a recent year, #Hawaii's public schools purchased more imported canned fruit (including pineapple!) than they did any local food, despite a state mandate that the islands source 30% of #schoolmeals by 2030 www.civilbeat.org/2026/03/push...

The wildly open #gubernatorial primary in #California shows the coalition of environmental groups, organized labor, progressive activists, and business-friendly moderates is unraveling without Newsom nypost.com/2026/03/07/o...

Interesting notes here. I do wonder if open meetings acts get in the way of coalition building

"Districts struggle to move closed school buildings into productive reuse, and holding vacant buildings is expensive" www.researchforaction.org/news-events/...

HB 2393 / SB 2310 in #Tennessee, as currently drafted, would ban not just cell phones, but 1:1 district-provided devices for K-5 instruction. Pretty remarkable turn of events given the persistent "AI is here" claims in many #education corners

Overall, Amber Northern's report seems to underscore the important role of #IES in providing the baseline data and research infrastructure that supports so much of what we know about improvement in #education #eddata ies.ed.gov/learn/blog/r...

The moment many of us in #edresearch have been waiting for... Reimagining the Institute of Education Sciences has been released. ies.ed.gov/ies/2026/02/...

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This chart title made me laugh out loud. In the bitter way, but still.

#Indianapolis "flyover country to some" might just have the roadmap for a new kind of district-charter cooperation in our nation, argues @bbrownindy.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/a-bo...

"Over the last decade, there has been a widening of a different kind of performance gap—the gap between higher- and lower-achieving students"

30+ states have now adopted policies to boost housing production. Which means exciting opportunities for researchers to study these policies' effectiveness. Some guidance from me, via @niskanencenter.bsky.social, on how to design good state policy evaluations: www.niskanencenter.org/how-to-evalu...

A couple fascinating things I learned reporting this: 1. Much of the plant life on the field was people in costume. 2. The finale required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics. 3. That was a real couple that got married during the Lady Gaga number. So many more details here in the piece. Go read!

None of us avid School Board watchers will be at the board retreat, because none of us can go be in person all day, and the board/district has chosen to not provide remote access in this year of our gourd 2026. They will be discussing board governance, the board work plan, and strategic planning.

Good to see bipartisan support for the Institute for Education Sciences (IES). IES provides the foundation or basic infrastructure for #eddata and research that inform almost everything we can say about #edpolicy

More choices are coming to education, but school districts can compete or even thrive in a choice-driven marketplace, says Afton's Katie Reed... aftonpartners.com/the-coming-e...

The scorn Seattleites have for Bellevue and former mayors alike is really something

The always excellent @bethhawkins.bsky.social untangles what is actually happening in #Minnesota schools right now. #StPaul district closed today and yesterday to organize #remotelearning options, as an example #edchat www.the74million.org/article/as-i...

New: Congress is on the verge of (largely) rebuking President Trump's budget proposal for education. No major funding cuts, no block grants...but also no explicit block on ED efforts to shift program staff elsewhere. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

“Africa remains the least-connected region in the world, yet this is precisely what makes it one of the most attractive markets for global connectivity providers. The scale of unmet demand means that virtually every major player sees Africa as a strategic growth market.”

One of the best editors / writing instructors I’ve ever worked with always said this.

His TFA exp sounds similar to many TFA’ers I’ve met. “You can’t learn/do much about schools in just two years” is a criticism many career educators hold about TFA, interesting here to see a GOP official saying it. #edpolicy www.texastribune.org/2026/01/16/j... @jamestalarico.bsky.social

Some quick thoughts on a new #school governance model for #Indianapolis www.linkedin.com/posts/srgill...

My newest--lessons from the infamous UCSD report on kids' college readiness for k-12 and higher ed @the74.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/acco...

Now that you mention it…

Multiple monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis. And AI generated images are complicating the effort to find them.

Falling enrollment most extreme in wealthy districts, study finds

Bad but frankly follows a similar pattern on the left used to discredit charter schools and other forms of school choice. Ultimately self defeating if your aim is to increase microschools, supported homeschooling, and the like

Why I’ve sold AI to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook School Districts!

LMS log data can work as an early-warning system for college courses—if we treat students’ clicks as signals for support, not surveillance, and audit models for bias across groups. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Flying cars, hotels on the moon, asteroid mining... Nah, you're getting data centers in low orbit

An #Idaho theatre class switched to "study hall" mode for five weeks while awaiting their choice of school play to be approved by the school board's micro-managed curriculum approval process #edchat hechingerreport.org/a-republican... @hechingerreport.org

It’s been obvious for decades that distributed solar and interconnected microgrids are a far more reliable solution for Puerto Rico. Adjuntas proves it. Sadly, “the U.S. Department of Energy plans to redirect $365 million previously earmarked for rooftop solar toward the fossil-fuel-powered grid.”

We talked about this in my class. People (& lenders!) need to have credible information about climate risk to their homes. However the way it is done right now, if at all, has lots of uncertainty. A home could be categorized as low-risk when it’s high risk, & vice versa! NOAA should do this service.

Essays such as these always incoherent because they presume a golden era of public education that never existed

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White House intends to move day-to-day management of most K12 federal programs (Title 1, et al) to Department of Labor. Looks like really only special ed was left out. #edpolicy www.ed.gov/media/docume...

Released today: @tcfdotorg.bsky.social cites a toxic combination of increasing energy prices, rising overdue balances, and squeezed household budgets that together are pushing families deeper and deeper into utility debt. tcf.org/content/comm...

The families Ted Koppel speaks to here (with compassion and care) will challenge your perception of who is “homeless”. The folks you might see on the street in a tent are just the leading edge of bad urban planning & market failures when it comes to #housing www.cbsnews.com/video/when-t...

Looking for a very reasonable take on the shutdown “deal”? @jpos.bsky.social has one open.substack.com/pub/reasonab...

Nuance in data... is the value of a "college degree" in decline? Not really if it's a *Four-year degree*. Sharp analysis here - why it's so important to maintain the #eddata NCES and others collect at a national level. cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/is-college...

"AI systems built to “flag” books are not neutral. They replicate the worldview they are built on. And right now, that worldview is hostile to many of the students we are supposed to serve." A great follow-up to our Fanbase Weekly conversation. aischoollibrarian.substack.com/p/the-most-d...