Highlights
Trump administration shares plan to dismantle more of the Department of Education - NPR - 19 November 2025
MacKenzie Scott’s recent HBCU gifts top $700M. See who got funding. - Higher Ed Dive - 19 November 2025
Slower Immigration Could Shrink Future Workforce, Fed Study Says - Bloomberg (subscription model) - 19 November 2025
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🔎 U.S. Department of Education
McMahon Breaks Up More of the Education Department - Inside Higher Ed - 18 November 2025
Ed Department Sheds Several Offices, But Spares Special Education - Disability Scoop - 19 November 2025
Is Trump dismantling the Education Department? Not yet. But changes are coming. - Chalkbeat - 18 November 2025
Dismantling of ED Prompts Flurry of Reactions - Inside Higher Ed - 19 November 2025
‘Selling off the Department of Education for parts’: The agency’s major overhaul faces fierce backlash - The 19th - 19 November 2025
Special Education Services At Risk Under Department of Education Cuts - EdSurge - 18 November 2025
Opinion: It will take patience and courage to fix K-12 education without the Department of Education - The Hechinger Report - 19 November 2025
K-12 Education
Recent federal actions portend new risks for English Learner students - Brookings - 18 November 2025
Why Hasn’t Tutoring Been More Effective? - Education Week (subscription model) - 18 November 2025
Vaping is ‘Everywhere Now’ in Schools. Can Surveillance Tech Thwart it? - The 74 - 19 November 2025
How to see every student clearly in gifted education - SmartBrief - 18 November 2025
The Goalposts Keep Moving: Who Gets to ‘Futureproof’ Their Children? - The 74 - 19 November 2025
Rural Kids Need More Than Vocational School - The New York Times (subscription model) - 19 November 2025
Higher Education
National University Tackles A.B.D. Problem - Inside Higher Ed - 19 November 2025
At This College, the English Dept. Is Out. ‘Human Narratives’ Is In. - The New York Times (Subscription Model) - 19 November 2025
‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’ - The Atlantic (Subscription Model) - 19 November 2025
Early Learning & Child Care
Some parents paying more for child care than rent: Study - The Hill - 18 November 2025
Child care expenses top the cost of rent in dozens of U.S. cities, analysis finds. See where - CBS News - 18 November 2025
Labor Market & Workforce
Modernizing employment records: The public infrastructure the US labor market needs - Brookings - 17 November 2025
AI & EdTech
The classroom lab I still remember - Fast Company (subscription model) - 19 November 2025
Teacher AI Training Is Rising Fast, But Still Has a Long Way to Go - Education Week (subscription model) - 18 November 2025
State & Local News
DC | D.C. pulls back on vow to put mental health clinician in every public school - The Washington Post (Subscription Model) - 16 November 2025
North Carolina | A lesson in trust and second chances from McDowell Tech’s new president - EdNC - 17 November 2025
North Carolina | K-12 Absences Spike as Federal Immigration Agents Arrive in the Triangle - INDY Week - 19 November 2025
Texas | Judge tells some Texas schools to temporarily remove Ten Commandments posters - The Hill - 19 November 2025
Birmingham | Birmingham opens North Star Learning Lab to boost digital skills - WBMA - 19 November 2025
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