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In change of plans, White House is now saying not expect the executive order today. bsky.app/profile/matt...

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Scoop: A draft executive order directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Education Department” based on “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.” It could come as soon as today. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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NEW: Peggy Carr, commissioner of the Nat'l Center on Education Statistics and a two-decade+ veteran at Educ Dept, was abruptly put on leave today. She runs NAEP, the national math and reading tests seen as important marker of educational progress www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

New: Chicago Public Schools' "Black Student Success Plan" faces a civil rights challenge. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Thoughtful piece by @marklieberman.bsky.social on the complexity of linking school funding and NAEP scores. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

New from me: Regular civil rights enforcement at the Education Department has been curtailed in recent weeks because some staff face a ban on external communications, sharply limiting their day-to-day work. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

New: Why Trump's Department of Education has proactively launched an investigation into the bathroom policies of a single Denver high school. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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New: The Trump admin is weighing executive orders aiming at dismantling the Department of Education. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

New: After pandemic-era declines, there's been little progress on national tests since—in fact reading scores have fallen even further. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Many ed-tech companies say their products lead to remarkable gains in student learning, citing internal analyses. But as we show in our recent piece—examining the popular digital learning platform IXL—there is often more than meets the eye to these claims. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

New from me: Why there are so few male teachers in U.S. public schools—and why have their ranks been declining in recent decades? One theory: the teacher pay "penalty" is worse for men than for women. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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New: In recent years, there has been huge growth of technology in schools—walk into a random American classroom and there's a good chance you'll see students on screens. But is this good learning? I dig in with @wsj.com colleagues. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Yikes. Here is the full post on this: www.studentclearinghouse.org/news/nationa... bsky.app/profile/jill...

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: Girls have consistently lost more academic ground than boys since the pandemic. This is clear across a wide range of tests, but has gotten little attention to date. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

The ESSER "fiscal cliff" happened with a whimper, not a bang. Why? a) it's been bad! just not widely reported on b) it will be bad next year! c) it's been kinda bad but not disastrous d) it's not been bad b/c school leaders planned for it e) it's not been bad b/c state/local money filled gaps

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

The other interesting implication here—even holding aside change over time—is that the 18-24 cohort does not look much worse than older cohorts. That said, the U.S. as a whole doesn't look good compared to other countries. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer... bsky.app/profile/matt...

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

So the new PIACC data shows that older adults—who of course weren't in school during the pandemic—have also experienced steep "learning loss." Not quite sure what to make of that! nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaa...

submitted 90 days ago • 16 comments

New: U.S. scores fall sharply on international 4th and 8th grade math tests. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 96 days ago • 3 comments

New from me– A Trump-backed private school choice plan could face skepticism from a surprising source: red-state voters www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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WSJ explainer on Trump's plans for the Department of Education. @mattbarnum.bsky.social's framing of soft vs. hard abolish and the accompanying visual (around 2:45 in the video) provide a very clear, concise summary of the potential scenarios. www.wsj.com/video/series...

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Trump to nominate Linda McMahon for the education department that he wants to eliminate: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 110 days ago • 4 comments

I recently finished Benjamin Herold's book Disillusioned. It's terrific—a wonderfully written, thought-provoking epic read about schools, suburbs and much more. www.benjaminherold.com/disillusioned

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New: American school systems have a growing and difficult problem — too many schools and not enough students. But closing under-enrolled schools is not easy. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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New: Religious charter schools could upend the charter school movement — and some of the leading opponents are existing charter movement leaders. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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It's a surprising and a remarkable fact: most public school teachers don't get paid parental leave. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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New teacher attrition data from Texas: teacher exits are down from last year but still substantially higher than any year on record pre-pandemic. tea.texas.gov/reports-and-...

submitted 348 days ago • 2 comments

Teacher salary lags significantly behind that of most other professionals. Schools—public and private, alike—have prioritized hiring more staff rather than raising teacher pay. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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New from me: Why teacher salaries have been flat for three decades. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Sal Khan has suggested that AI in education could eventually boost student learning two standard deviations—vaulting the average kid to the 98th percentile—citing a study from 1984. The challenge: this study has rarely if ever been replicated. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 367 days ago • 2 comments

New: Teacher turnover remains significantly elevated in many places, although it's dipped from its peak in 2022, according to data from ten states I compiled www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 371 days ago • 0 comments

A fascinating and somewhat disturbing look inside the obscure but high-stakes legal fights over special education services. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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New: Teachers, teenagers, and parents have significantly overlapping views on how schools should — or should not — teach about controversial topics. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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New: There is a lot of excitement about the potential of AI in education. This vision faces a big challenge, though: AI is notoriously bad at math. This was apparent when I recently tested Khanmigo, a popular ChatGPT-powered tool used in some schools now. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...

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