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...

#EdData and #IES is part of the overlooked infrastructure that supports education. What happens when the well runs dry? @rebeccasibilia.bsky.social

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

Without immigration the #school-age population in the US will decline. It already is in many cities. I’m guessing that overall we’ll decrease spending in real terms on schooling as people live longer and need more services as senior citizens #edfinance #edpolicy

"Without this information, there is no way to know how schools are working to address academic and opportunity disparities — particularly for Black and Latino students, multilingual learners, students with disabilities and those from low-income backgrounds." www.the74million.org/article/givi...

Tutoring! @matthewakraft.com sees a path for sustaining it, perhaps with an assist from #GenAI. But will probably take longer than people think #edchat #edpolicy #edtech thefutureoftutoring.substack.com/p/q-and-a-ma...

Bill DeBlasio (who is not the former nyc mayor named Bill de Blasio) “used ChatGPT to compose a response criticizing Mamdani’s tax plans, in particular, as unlikely to raise the requisite revenue.”

"Good people are afraid of being seen as Luddites." writes Andy Smarick for the @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social #edpolicy #genAI #AI #education thedispatch.com/article/arti...

#EdData and #IES is part of the overlooked infrastructure that supports education. What happens when the well runs dry? @rebeccasibilia.bsky.social

This is truly baffling to someone who lives in a west coast city that has mandated composting for more than a decade

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Seattle has like two parades a year and both of them are sponsored by Alaska Airlines. But maybe this year maybe we'll get a third?? ⚾

Curious to see this bill vetoed; annual audits often not likely to be timely or extensive enough to get to root of operational problems nor do they provide insights of program ineffectiveness. Neither the district, county, or state dept of ed currently equipped edsource.org/2025/newsom-...

Charter authorizing is hard work - especially if your small district soon finds itself serving thousands of students across a state. Long been Qs about the efficacy of virtual schools, and if the charter model provides best vehicle for designing and overseeing them www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"In theory, almost all Americans profess to be pluralist liberals. In reality, both the left and right struggle to accept those they find unsavory" @jtylersyck.bsky.social providencemag.com/2025/10/dani...

School districts are drawn by the allure of cost savings (and field markings that look as vibrant as the NFL in photos) but those artificial turfs are not always that great... www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...

Why have fed involvement in K-12 edu, you might wonder? IES' "Research and development system generates valuable evidence on what works, supports states and districts in addressing their unique needs, collects and analyzes vital national data" #eddata #edtech www.the74million.org/article/how-...

I got a newsletter email that advised applying to jobs that you seem overqualified for and now was not the time for career pivots. “You best bet is a lateral move” Bleak. Don’t remember reading that in “What Color is your parachute?” 🪂 #careeradvice

I walk by the Civic Hotel a fair amount, never knew it was a homeless "shelter" - a big contrast to the "tiny home" situation that was just north of there. A sign that, despite the costs and inefficiencies, the model might have some merit.