Education News Update - July 29, 2025
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Former Education Stats Chief Describes Her Final Days Under DOGE
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Trump Administration Releases Billions It Withheld from Schools
The Implications of 2025 Supreme Court Term on K-12 Education
Students Are Struggling With Math. What Are States Doing Wrong?
Mixing & Matching Curricula
Teachers are more likely to be using high-quality curriculum materials than they were five years ago. New data suggests states’ efforts to institute more coherent, less anything-goes approaches to materials have started to shift practice. But many teachers are still using older materials or other supplements, too. The average teacher reported using two core curricula and five supplemental resources. If education leaders want that to change, teachers need more support to meet the range of student abilities in classrooms. Teachers may also feel districts’ favored curricula have flaws, such as not enough support for lower- or higher-achieving students, problems with pacing, or too many features.
EdWeek
Right to Read
In 2022, Summer Boismier was a language arts teacher in Norman, Oklahoma. Just days before they were set to return for the 2022-23 academic year, teachers were advised during a faculty meeting to restrict or remove student access to classroom libraries. This was in response to recent legislation. Boismier complied, covering her classroom library with butcher paper. However, she added on the butcher paper a QR code to connect students to Books Unbanned, a nationwide initiative offering students ages 13-21 free access to the Brooklyn Public Library’s 500, 000 digital items. Boismier writes about her suspension and eventual loss of her teaching license as a result of her actions.
Chalkbeat
Cognitive Science in UK Education
Cognitive science has become all the rage in British education circles, but it has largely failed to register in the U.S. Developed in the 1950s, cognitive science essentially explains how we learn, think, remember, and process information. Applied to education, it allows teachers to maximize learning by incorporating key principles, among them: working memory and cognitive load, spaced practice and retrieval, prior knowledge activation, and metacognition. In England, these days, such jargon is now mainstream among teachers. Experts speculate that the U.S. education system is too big and decentralized for cognitive science to “catch fire.” Many U.S. teachers’ colleges are also resistant to change and new ideas.
The74
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