Ed News for K12 Researchers: RIP Jim Popham, Students down – staff up, easy A= low pay, math pathways evidence hub, the returns from personal supports for low income students: https://www.scoop.it/topic/ed-news-for-k12-researchers
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Ed News for K12 Researchers: RIP Jim Popham, Students down – staff up, easy A= low pay, math pathways evidence hub, the returns from personal supports for low income students: https://www.scoop.it/topic/ed-news-for-k12-researchers
Wipe out IES, NCES, lots of nonprofits and cut grants and it has many repercussions. One is the lack of material for this news blast. This will make this a biweekly or so blast for now, I will see if the content is there over the next couple of months.
Schools lose 135,000 students, add 118,000 staff https://www.the74million.org/article/staffing-deja-vu-districts-add-118000-more-employees-serve-135000-fewer-kids/
Wanda knows how many positions at the district and in classrooms you have added (and how your neighboring districts compare) https://mailchi.mp/b532a717a15c/a-reckoning-on-school-staffing-wanda-has-your-districts-numbers
RIP Jim Popham (favorite quote for the role of an evaluator - biting the hand that feeds you while appearing to only be licking) https://ncme.org/in-memoriam-jim-popham/
Easy A, low pay -- HS grade inflation impacts https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-grade-inflation-lower-pay/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Easy%20A%20s%2C%20lower%20pay&utm_campaign=PP%2002%2009%202026&vgo_ee=CV21kVXrgBc8M8mIP8BJggR%2B%2B6akzOeuEDzBuCjAQcELbRIr%3Auca6Xhl4n81opZJ7G9EREmzQCfqqyln6
Does online testing make the grade?
https://aefpweb.org/files/Atwater_Summer25_Takeaway_FINAL.pdf
Math pathways evidence hub https://annenbergexchange.org/math-pathways-evidence-hub
No one goes to college anymore (but enrollment is growing)
Boys pull ahead in math (through 5th grade) https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-boys-pull-ahead-in-math-from-kindergarten-to-fifth-grade/
The returns for providing personal supports to low income students
https://opportunityinsights.org/paper/cis/
30 years of 12th grade reading and math NAEP https://www.the74million.org/article/how-12th-grade-math-reading-scores-have-changed-over-time/?utm_source=The%2074%20Million%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=e3fa9578f2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_07_27_07_47_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_077b986842-e3fa9578f2-177089356
What are schools doing to improve attendance? https://edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1390
Immigrants impact on federal budgets https://www.cato.org/white-paper/immigrants-recent-effects-government-budgets-1994-2023?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=
Using data to improve schools -Consortium for Chicago School webinar
https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cDwvWRdqSQu5GErPFprXQg#/registration
Next gen NAEP https://www.nagb.gov/powered-by-naep/next-gen-naep.html
When does college advising work? https://edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1371
The white house war on federal stats https://www.ft.com/content/a2cbb4e6-c0d8-49ee-84db-a708fdfb7c52?shareType=nongift
And one case study -- the Census https://www.science.org/content/article/sharp-cutbacks-field-tests-could-threaten-quality-2030-u-s-census?utm_source=sfmc
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