In Oklahoma, the state and GreatSchools launched the Oklahoma School Choice Hub this week — a first-of-its-kind state partnership pairing GreatSchools' AI-powered guided search with Oklahoma-specific content, including a financial estimator for state scholarship and tax credit programs. GreatSchools CEO Jon Deane framed the goal as helping families shift from asking what schools are nearby to "what's possible for my child?"

In New Mexico, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham used her final post-session speech to defend the state's first-in-the-nation universal childcare program against a GOP lawsuit — and to reframe the entire policy. "It is not babysitting," she told the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce. The pitch: build the workforce now or don't have one later. The Legislature has codified the program with up to $700 million from the state's early childhood trust fund over five years; the law takes effect May 20.

And in The Atlantic, Franklin Schneider rewrites the standard panic about attention spans. The problem isn't that yours is too short, he argues — it's that the most lucrative companies on the planet have built a business out of harvesting the most valuable thing you've got, and you've been giving it away. The median American adult logs more than six hours a day on a smartphone. Worth reading against the past year of cell phone bans rolling through statehouses — and alongside the Washington Post piece in tonight's Higher Education section on college students now actively building screen-free zones to relearn how to socialize.

— Thomas