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Listen to the article 0 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. How well did you keep up with this year’s developments in K-12 education? To find out, take our 10-question quiz below. Then, share your score by tagging us on social media with #K12DivePopQuiz.

eSchool News is counting down the 10 most-read stories of 2025. Story #7 focuses on sustainability in edtech. Key points: Educational technology, or edtech, has reshaped how educators teach, offering opportunities to create more sustainable and impactful learning environments. Using edtech in teaching, educators and school leaders can reduce environmental impact while enhancing student engagement and creativity. The key is recognizing how to effectively leverage edtech learning strategies, from digitized lesson plans to virtual collaboration, and keeping an open mind while embracing new instructional methods. Rethinking teaching methods in the digital age Teaching methods have undergone significant transformation with the…

Jonathan N. Badger, Substack On the fleeting moment in which large language models still help more than they harm.

by Felicia Mello, The Hechinger Report December 23, 2025 OAKLAND — In 2020, California led the nation in outlawing transcript-withholding, a debt collection practice that sometimes kept low-income college students from getting jobs or advanced degrees. Five years later, 24 of the state’s 115 community colleges still said on their websites that students with unpaid balances could lose access to their transcripts, according to a recent UC Merced survey.  The communications failure has been misleading, student advocates said, although overall, the state’s students have benefited from the law.   It “raises questions about what actual institutional practices are at colleges and…

Andrej Karpathy, Stanford Here is some advice I would give to younger students if they wish to do well in their undergraduate courses.

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The U.S. Department of Education is pushing forward with innovations in the Nation’s Report Card, despite layoffs that ripped through the National Center for Education Statistics, which administers the assessment, earlier this year.  The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, will be administered online and primarily on school devices going forward — as opposed to department-provided devices — after the department field tested that approach this year, according to a Federal Register notice posted Thursday. The notice also announced a bridge…

Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Pomona College is considering acquiring Claremont Graduate University after initiating confidential talks in late spring and entering exclusive talks in December.  The private nonprofit institutions, in California, announced their discussions last week and invited their communities to weigh in. They expect to negotiate a definitive agreement over the next six months.  CGU has been exploring teaming up with another institution for over a year. On an FAQ page, the university says it is seeking “a mission-aligned partner that values graduate…

Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The University of North Carolina System will treat class syllabi as public records effective Jan. 15 and require instructors to post their syllabi to a “readily searchable” online platform beginning in the 2026-27 academic year. Under the Friday policy change, each syllabus will have to include a course’s name, description, methodology for student assessment and required course materials, as well as a “statement noting that the course engages diverse scholarly perspectives to develop critical thinking, analysis, and debate and inclusion…

Ronald W. Dworkin, Jack Miller Center American democracy teaches a relevant point, which is that governance, by and large, is not a task reserved solely for experts.

Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A federal judge on Friday ordered the permanent reinstatement of U.S. Department of Education mental health grants in 16 states, ruling that the April cancellation of the school-based and professional development funding was unlawful. The order came a week after the Education Department awarded $208 million in new mental health grants under revised priorities set by the Trump administration that prohibit recipients from “promoting or endorsing gender ideology, political activism, racial stereotyping, or hostile environments for students of particular races.” …