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What Educational AI Should Refuse to Do

LearnAgency

What Factors Are Actually Most Important in Learning to Read?

K12Dive

When Good Research Gets Implemented Badly: Moving Into the Classroom

Edutopia

From the Feds on Down, School Funding Is Uncertain. What to Know

EdWeek

NYC Reading Scores Sink, With Third Grade Falling 14 Points

Chalkbeat

I'm Begging: Never Write With A.I.

This column isn't so much an argument as it is a plea: Don't use artificial intelligence to help you write. The problem with writing with A.I. is not one of ethics or quality of the work. The problem is that it's mentally enfeebling, an escalator toward a result when you really need to make a daily habit of taking the stairs. As it becomes ubiquitous, A.I. writing undermines not only our individual ability to write but also a society's collective ability to reason, a culture's inner capacity to create and everyone's reason to care. We're already reckoning with the well-documented decline of reading; A.I. is accelerating the decline of writing, ushering us further into our "postliterate age." NYTimes

After Losing a Grant

This piece describes the experience of several different groups that suddenly lost grant funding in the middle of a project in 2025. It shows how different kinds of grants were affected and how lost funding affected areas across the country, including states that went for Trump. The author says that, for many Trump-era grant cancellations, the affected dollar amount listed on a spreadsheet doesn't capture the full impact of the funding loss on the grantees, and others touched by their work. The cancelations have created a sense of confusion and fragility for many nonprofit groups. And many anticipate future changes and more cancelations still to come. EdWeek

Teacher Turnover

Many states have experienced high levels of teacher turnover since 2020. Teachers who leave the profession often cite worsening student behavior and stagnant pay. Research has linked teacher churn to declines in test scores. High-poverty schools, which struggled with teacher churn before the pandemic, likely suffered the most from the turnover spike. It hasn't just been teachers departing. In Alaska, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Texas, and Washington state, principal attrition rose, too. At a moment when policymakers are seeking to understand America's sluggish learning recovery, the loss of teachers and instability in schools deserves to be on the list of plausible contributors. Chalkbeat