Ed News for K12 Researchers: 2025 ACT results, Steubenville is still great, NWEA & 3 states release scores, teachers are under and over paid, your brain peaks at 60 (says a senior researcher?) https://www.scoop.it/topic/ed-news-for-k12-researchers
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Ed News for K12 Researchers: 2025 ACT results, Steubenville is still great, NWEA & 3 states release scores, teachers are under and over paid, your brain peaks at 60 (says a senior researcher?) https://www.scoop.it/topic/ed-news-for-k12-researchers
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Steubenville is still great https://www.chadaldeman.com/p/steubenville-still-great?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=997417&post_id=175194560&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3dr75&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Did you know the highest educated immigrant group is not from China or India, it is Nigeria. Maybe this article has a point. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/10/how-immigration-is-changing-the-black-white-earnings-gap.html
Yale study finds SEL benefits https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-sel-academic-benefits-yale-study/
Are teachers underpaid or overpaid? Yes. https://www.chadaldeman.com/p/are-teachers-underpaid-or-overpaid
Calculus is overrated (if you are not going into engineering) https://www.the74million.org/article/is-calculus-overrated-some-reasons-to-rethink-how-schools-offer-advanced-math/
Remember when we made lots of education gains?
https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/remarkable-educational-attainment-gains-reform-era
ACT releases 2025 results https://www.act.org/content/act/en/research/services-and-resources/data-and-visualization/grad-class-database-2025.html
Education payoff by degrees https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/major-payoff/
Job quality in the USA https://www.gallup.com/analytics/691241/american-job-quality-study.aspx
Helping teachers stop doing things (to free up time for formative assessment)
NWEA: math gaps closing, reading stagnating https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/10/14/math-shows-improvement-reading-stagnant-new-map-nwea-test-results/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=68edcd459ec7f200010bda82&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Is America sliding into illiteracy? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/?gift=wvfk8nSn4vrwPph_MlsirIGUDFg6C4m5TTcRN1p_zIY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
California releases state test scores https://statetestscoreresults.substack.com/p/california-2025-assessment-results?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1796653&post_id=176039494&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3dr75&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Mixed progress in Illinois https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/report-offers-mixed-review-educational-progress-illinois
Phones in school study press release https://statetestscoreresults.substack.com/p/kansas-2025-assessment-results?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1796653&post_id=176348271&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3dr75&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Excess phone use impact academics, career trajecories https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjaf048/8292650?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
How are pension costs affecting school districts https://direct.mit.edu/edfp/article-abstract/19/4/586/117014/Public-Schools-and-Their-Pensions-How-Is-Pension?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Building a sense of belonging during the transition to HS https://gardnercenter.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/media/file/Belonging_Research_Brief_2025.pdf
Give SWDs assessment and accountability waivers? No thanks some disability groups
So many teachers retire too early -- your brain peaks at 60! (did some boomers do that study?)
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