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The nation’s governors want K-12 schools to reshape their work to better align with workforce needs, improve the youngest learners’ education, and hire and retain talented teachers—all while setting and maintaining high standards for academic achievement.Thosekey themes emerged from governors’ 2026 state of the state addresses, according to an analysis by the Education Commission of the States, an organization that tracks state-level trends in education policy. ECS reviewed addresses delivered by governors of 42 states, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands before March 31.Here are five key trends. 1. A call for focus on foundational academic skills At…

Maurie McInnis formed the Committee on Trust in Higher Education to do a “self-examination.” f11photo/iStock/Getty Images Plus Yale University’s president says her institution contributed to an erosion of public trust in higher ed, and she’s committed to addressing it. Maurie McInnis said that she formed the Committee on Trust in Higher Education last April to undertake a “thorough self-examination” into how to respond to Americans’ declining trust in universities. The committee of 10 faculty released its report last week. “The committee calls on Yale to reflect on and take responsibility for our role in the erosion of public trust,” McInnis…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter The Education Department plans to dissolve the office that supports the country’s 5 million English learners. The move comes as the Trump administration has called to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and to stop funding English language acquisition programs in the federal budget. The country’s English learner student population includes U.S. citizen children of immigrant parents as well as authorized and undocumented immigrant children, communities that are reeling from the effects of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The Office of English Language Acquisition…

Join our zero2eight Substack community for more discussion about the latest news in early care and education. Sign up now. “I love my job,” is one of the first things Ashley Ross says, as she sits down to talk about a looming pay cut that she might be facing. She’s worked at Gan HaYeled, an early childhood program in Northwest D.C., for almost 20 years, and was recently promoted to split her time between two roles: a pre-K classroom teacher and a teacher resource coordinator, who works with other educators to solve problems that arise in the classroom or at…

Build A MarTech Stack: Digital Arsenal For Future Growth It is a fact that MarTech stacks have evolved rapidly over the past decade. What was once a manageable set of tools has turned into a complex ecosystem spanning CRM systems, automation platforms, analytics tools, content engines, and now AI-driven solutions. For many organizations, especially in B2B and SaaS, the stack has become both a competitive advantage and a source of friction. The truth is that the core issue is not the availability of technology. It is rather how that technology is adopted and managed. In the current market state, many…

Virtual fellowships have allowed academics in the Gaza Strip to continue their research despite the widespread destruction of universities in the Israel-Hamas war. Speaking at Times Higher Education’s Digital Universities UK event, Basma Hajir, a lecturer in comparative and international education at the University of Bristol, explained that she set up a fellowship program to support Gazan academics with an initial grant of just $13,500. Hajir stressed that despite the destruction of physical infrastructure in Gaza, higher education has continued virtually and academics have remained active despite the conditions. The Gaza Education Research Virtual Fellowship provided fellowships to three academics across Al-Aqsa University and the Islamic University of…

One of the worst-kept secrets of the teaching profession: The amount of time many educators dedicate to their jobs outside of their contract hours. Additional duties such as lesson planning, grading, and monitoring after-school activities are among the many forces that can extend a teacher’s workday.For many, the most frustrating part of this phenomenon is that these extra to-do’s often don’t include more pay. Education Week put out a LinkedIn poll asking users whether they believed teachers should qualify for overtime pay (teachers don’t currently qualify, but other school staff do), and respondents had a lot to say in the…

Key points: Recent findings on the negative impacts of AI on learning might be sparking national debate, but they are unsurprising to learning scientists. In fact, these results highlight a long-standing U.S. trend of using what “feels right” or “sounds good” instead of following well-established education research. A recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology study shows that students’ over-reliance on technology in general, and AI in particular, bypasses essential learning processes during crucial stages of childhood and adolescent cognitive development. Examples of technology interfering with the development of critical thinking skills are abundant. They include replacing handwriting with keyboarding, reducing the importance of students’ automatic…

Listen to the article 7 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. CHICAGO — Few challenges facing school districts today are as thorny as data privacy.  Missteps with the personal information of students or staff can be costly not just financially, but also in terms of time and legal consequences. “Very few things happen in a school district these days that don’t involve tech, and all of those processes involve data in some way,” David Zagray, technology director at Westlake City Schools in Ohio, told attendees during a Tuesday session at the Consortium for…

You upload a 40-page unit plan. Sixty seconds later, you”re listening to two AI hosts debate the themes of your novel study — and you can interrupt them mid-sentence to ask a follow-up question. That’s not a demo from some future product roadmap. That’s NotebookLM right now, in April 2026. Google has been quietly stacking updates onto NotebookLM for months, and the latest round — dropped in late March — pushes it from “cool research tool” into something that genuinely changes how you prep, teach, and support students. If you haven’t opened it since last year, you’re working with an…