"For those seeking a sensible way to think about district leadership, Miles offers much to like." bit.ly/4wPFJj4

"That required actually responding to the question that Americans have been raising loudly but universities have done little to concretely answer: What are consumers of higher education getting for their money?" bit.ly/4qKWs5A

"And unlike impressionist art, education policy can’t afford to brush over the details." bit.ly/470YgOU

"Midterm elections are often tough for the party that controls the White House. That’s especially true for Republicans this year, with inflation up and Trump’s poll numbers way down." bit.ly/4yoF3CU

"To be clear, this isn’t a cut to federal spending ... It’s an estimate of how much less grantees would need to spend on administrative costs, staffing, paperwork, and other expenses to be in compliance with the new rules." bit.ly/3Uwxknl

"On issue after issue, it seemed contemporary debates had been co-opted by performance artists on either side." bit.ly/4dO2c9r

"This research indicates that AI substantially harms learning for half of all students, what the researchers call the 'Generative AI penalty,' and provides no discernible benefit to the other half." bit.ly/4rLyCaJ

How Would a Blue Wave in the Midterms Impact Education? Democrats are looking strong as November approaches. Five thoughts on what it could mean for schools. bit.ly/4yoF3CU

"WLA’s extensive experience in technology education, its focus on equity, and its eagerness to integrate AI into student learning combine to offer an early glimpse into what education on the frontier of AI adoption looks like." bit.ly/4g6N7QW

Louise Baigelman has written a response to Tim Shanahan’s book, highlighting the ways she feels it does not address the reality of today’s classrooms. EdNext invited Shanahan to respond to Baigelman’s critique and explain why she has misconstrued his book. bit.ly/3SoJfmw

"When I taught high school in Virginia in the early 2020s, I was only vaguely aware of the existence of something called 'portrait of a graduate.' Whatever this portrait was, it didn’t seem to impact my daily work, so it didn’t capture my attention." bit.ly/470YgOU

ICYMI - The Education Exchange: California Eyes a Big Change in School Governance. Diverse coalition overcomes opposition to give governor appointee control of state education. bit.ly/3TgDzLx

"As a result of this community support, Vietnamese American education mobility has occurred more through public schools than through private-school choice." bit.ly/4xfo2Km

"At many points, the conversation was less about left vs. right than about common sense vs. performative grandstanding." bit.ly/4dO2c9r

"The right question is not whether OCR has performed valuable work but whether the Education Department is the best institutional home for the federal government’s civil rights enforcement responsibilities." bit.ly/4d4tSXf

"The pushback on AI and data centers is widespread and real, but parents seem a lot less worried about the devices that have overrun their kids’ classrooms." bit.ly/4hr4z4k

"Regulations adopted in 2016 and 2024 contributed to rising per-student costs, which resulted in the loss of 277,658 slots for students from 2015 to 2025, according to a recent analysis by the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at HHS." bit.ly/3Uwxknl

"The importance of younger students mastering foundational math skills is nowhere to be found in Dintersmith’s book, which leaves the reader without the well-established evidence that early math fluency is essential for later math success." bit.ly/4wmtPxQ

"To its credit, the Australian government set up an evaluation of its law, done by Stanford’s Social Media Lab, involving more than 4,000 children aged 10 to 15, plus one parent for each." bit.ly/4qZzpnI

"In 2024, my colleagues and I wrote an essay titled 'Who Owns Intelligence?' We discussed animal, plant, and artificial intelligence. Scholars, including educators, must now reflect on how these forms of intelligence relate to one another." bit.ly/4cdj09g