Education News Update » 01-06-26
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5 Lessons Learned from Top School Administrators in 2025
The Jealousy List: A Shout-Out to 19 Education Stories We Admired in 2025
The Top 10 EdWeek Stories of 2025
In a Year That Shook the Foundations of Ed. Research, These 10 Stories Resonated in 2025
Voices of the Education Debate in 2025
12 Charts that Defined Ed. in 2025
This year was fruitful for social science research, though the White House efforts to liquidate the Education Department staff may well limit the public’s insight into how schools perform and children learn in future years. Education research shows clearly how the renewed fervor of the second Trump term has, in some senses, fulfilled the hopes and anxieties embedded in his first. This article includes 12 charts that provide a visual representation of current trends in U.S. education. For example, one chart shows that achievement was lagging in the U.S. even before COVID. Another suggests that increased I.C.E. presence has worsened student absenteeism. A set of four charts suggests that cell phone bans have had a positive effect on student performance.
The74
The Trump Effect on Education
Even with a conservative think tank’s blueprint detailing how the second Trump administration should reimagine the federal government’s role in education, few might have predicted what actually materialized this year for America’s schools and colleges. It was almost impossible for the average observer to keep track of the array of changes across colleges and universities, K-12 schools, early education and education research — and what it has all meant. This article is a look back at how the education world was transformed during the first year of Trump’s second term.
Hechinger
Top 10 Education Studies of 2025
This article provides a roundup of the most insightful studies of 2025. The research suggests that technology is at a crossroads. While AI hype remains high, two new studies are more ambivalent about using the technology in classrooms, suggesting that large language models can help teachers with burdensome paperwork but may leave young writers clueless about what they just committed to paper. Meanwhile, cell phones continue to fall out of favor in schools, with bans across the country. New research also showed the value of time-tested practices, from handwriting to recess to brain breaks and good old-fashioned productive struggle.
Edutopia
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