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Sitting in a recent district administrator meeting, I found myself excited about a new student data platform my district is rolling out. This new tool, called by a catchy acronym and presented on a flashy dashboard, would collect a variety of information about student skills, mindsets and achievement. It would let us break down information by subgroup and assign overall scores to students, helping us identify who needs additional support. Initially, I was enthusiastic about how it could empower teachers to better understand students and improve outcomes. But since then, after conversations with the teachers in my building and reflecting…

They’re finally here: After months of carefully considering an impressive array of administrators and school systems that have soared high in 2025, we’re proud to announce the 10th annual K-12 Dive Awards. Arriving at a final selection wasn’t easy. We spoke with education stakeholders and past honorees, revisited information gathered in our reporting throughout the year, and reviewed each contender’s accolades and challenges overcome. This included weighing achievements in areas of student achievement, whole-child programming, postsecondary pathways and community engagement. The final decisions were difficult, but we’re excited to share the stories and accomplishments of this year’s district, superintendent and…

Jacqueline LeKachman, The New School Free Press Gen Z is done with dating apps. More than half of the generation feels burned out often or always while using them, according to a July 2025…

Blue books made a comeback in 2025. In an effort to prevent students from feeding final essay prompts into ChatGPT, some professors asked their students to sit down and write in-person in the lined, sky-blue booklets that served as the college standard for written assessments in the pre-laptop era. But it may not be the foolproof way to prevent AI-assisted cheating that faculty are looking for: Meta now offers Ray-Ban glasses with a built-in AI assistant that sees what the wearer sees and can communicate silently and privately via an in-lens display. “What is to stop someone from sitting in…

You are here: Home / Scholarships / Brandon Edreff Memorial Gearshift Scholarship (Deadline: April 6, 2026) December 16, 2025 By The FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Team Who Can Apply: Brandon Edreff was a beloved son, brother, and friend who was a talented machinist, car enthusiast, and drummer who is dearly missed by all who knew him. In the face of unimaginable loss, education can become both a beacon of hope and an overwhelming challenge. When going through profound grief and feeling the absence of a loved one, financial burdens can compound the heartache and create overwhelming barriers. This scholarship seeks to honor…

For one California Institute of Technology professor, sifting through ash and soot sparked flickers of relief in the wake of devastating wildfires earlier this year. François Tissot, one of thousands of southern California residents who lost their homes in January, used his background as a geochemist to investigate the lingering health risks associated with the toxic chemicals unleashed by the Palisades and Eaton Fires. Tissot and his team’s work ended up informing post-fire public health guidance. The research has gave him some reprieve from the logistical and emotional toll of losing his home to the fires, which simultaneously destroyed 13,000…

The faculty role in higher education (HE) comes with the expectation to publish, yet many consider this a burden rather than a privilege. In fact, the contractual obligation to publish is only growing more, not less, intense (Strawser, 2020), and it is often linked to whether or not a faculty member is promoted or receives tenure (Blankstein, 2022). There are some practical suggestions and tips that faculty can consider when either starting out with their first scholarly output or when needing some motivation to pick back up or continue adding contributions to their curriculum vitae. This article will detail four ways to jumpstart your journey…

The National Institutes of Health requested public comments earlier this year on its proposals to reduce how much of its grant money researchers can use to pay scientific journals to publish their work. The agency released the feedback this month, showing that multiple major research advocacy groups and other organizations say its ideas are misguided. “Our organizations strongly urge NIH to explore other mechanisms for addressing concerns around publication costs—approaches that recognize that neither institutions nor individual investigators have control over publication costs,” read a joint comment from the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Association of Public and Land-grant…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter The Trump administration’s effort to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education is no longer a theoretical proposal. It is happening now, rapidly, and with consequences far more far-reaching than the headlines suggest. Among the most consequential moves is the plan to shift oversight of Title I, the $18-billion federal program that supports more than half of the nation’s public schools and nearly 26 million students in low-income communities, to the U.S. Department of Labor. While the federal education bureaucracy has room for improvement, this move…

Join our zero2eight Substack community for more discussion about the latest news in early care and education. Sign up now. Education policy and Hollywood rarely intersect.  But when filmmaker Rob Reiner latched onto the science about how young children develop, he not only used his moviemaking platform to convince the public of the importance of kids’ early years, he became a real-life policymaker to champion the cause.  After successfully steering the passage of a 1998 tobacco tax in California to fund programs for kids from birth to 5, he chaired the statewide commission overseeing how some of the funds were…