Ed News for K12 Researchers: Outperforming schools, why teacher pay is low, no one wants to got to college but enrollment is up? tracking 3rd graders thru HS: https://www.scoop.it/topic/ed-news-for-k12-researchers
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Ed News for K12 Researchers: Outperforming schools, why teacher pay is low, no one wants to got to college but enrollment is up? tracking 3rd graders thru HS: https://www.scoop.it/topic/ed-news-for-k12-researchers
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Postcovid trajectories through 2025 https://www.brookings.edu/articles/learning-curves-post-covid-learning-trajectories-differ-by-the-grade-a-student-was-in-when-the-pandemic-hit/
Postcovid trajectories for your state https://www.brookings.edu/articles/learning-curves-post-covid-learning-trajectories-by-cohort-subject-state/
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Postcovid trajectories through 2025 https://www.brookings.edu/articles/learning-curves-post-covid-learning-trajectories-differ-by-the-grade-a-student-was-in-when-the-pandemic-hit/
Postcovid trajectories for your state https://www.brookings.edu/articles/learning-curves-post-covid-learning-trajectories-by-cohort-subject-state/
49 states have released test scores -- have we recovered? https://statetestscoreresults.substack.com/p/2025-summary-ela-and-math-proficiency?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1796653&post_id=181794616&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3dr75&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Are phones to blame? https://www.npr.org/2025/12/14/nx-s1-5587585/is-decline-in-test-scores-linked-to-cell-phones
Or is it social media? https://www.generationtechblog.com/p/the-mind-blowing-amount-of-time-teens
What works in education? https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-more-expansive-approach-to-studying-what-works-in-education/
The great AI divide https://cew.georgetown.edu/resource/cew-blog-crossing-great-divide/
High school to career in Chicago https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/illinois-high-school-to-career-series
How your vendors may try and sell you skill building toward careers https://marketbrief.edweek.org/education-market/as-k-12-schools-shift-toward-careers-and-skill-building-heres-how-experts-say-vendors-can-help/2025/12?utm_source=wwr.whiteboardadvisors.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=what-we-re-reading-thursday-december-18-2025&_bhlid=25096234a54a25fd57d570d81341506565f635d4
College Board has dumbed down tests https://www.wsj.com/opinion/college-boards-defense-doesnt-pass-muster-ap-sat-8b274a99?st=rJM7cD&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
College Board hasn't dumbed down tests https://www.wsj.com/opinion/college-board-hasnt-dumbed-down-its-tests-sat-ap-exam-test-c05dd941?st=nrWKGV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Higher ed and K12 are alike but so different https://www.educationnext.org/why-are-k-12-and-higher-education-so-different-from-each-other/
Teacher retention is about average for comparable careers https://www.chadaldeman.com/p/teacher-retention-over-the-long-long?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=997417&post_id=181889521&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3dr75&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
The returns to college pay off in one's 20's and the rest is all gravy https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-college-affordability-debates-get-wrong-on-the-returns-to-college/?utm_source=wwr.whiteboardadvisors.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=what-we-re-reading-wednesday-december-17-2025&_bhlid=e08741d38b2630a8ff5d45579990b03c0066ffb6
Before IDEA there was a school to asylum pipeline (maybe without the school) https://www.the74million.org/article/before-special-ed-there-was-the-school-to-asylum-pipeline-how-one-lawsuit-helped-end-it/?utm_source=The%2074%20Million%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=ce54617e88-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_07_27_07_47_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_077b986842-ce54617e88-380157211
Child population shrinkage by metro https://www.axios.com/2025/12/16/children-population-cities
Why are people worried about falling birth rates https://www.the74million.org/article/why-are-so-many-americans-worried-about-falling-birth-rates/
State rankings critiqued https://cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/chalkbeat-ideas-roundup-state-rankings-critiqued-more-on-the-southern-surge-and-education-research-f
The condition of school finance 2025 https://edlawcenter.org/research/making-the-grade-2025/
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