Highlights
Talks Over Loan Caps See Some Progress - Inside Higher Ed - 5 November 2025
No quick fix for Head Start funding as programs start to close - Roll Call - 4 November 2025
The shutdown is hurting schools whose budgets are mostly federal money - Associated Press - 5 November 2025
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Deeper Dive: Government Shutdown
The federal shutdown has forced some Head Start migrant child care centers to close - NPR - 4 November 2025
K-12 Education
Spelling instruction can boost reading, writing skills - K-12 Dive - 5 November 2025
How K-12 leaders can tackle the ‘digital use divide’ - K-12 Dive - 5 November 2025
California Rethinks How to Identify 4-Year-Olds Who Need Extra Help Learning English - The 74 - 5 November 2025
Higher Education
8 HBCUs share in $387M donation spree from MacKenzie Scott - Higher Ed Dive - 5 November 2025
Students worried about getting jobs are adding extra majors - The Hechinger Report - 5 November 2025
Some public universities report fewer international students amid Trump restrictions - Stateline - 5 November 2025
Climate change ‘is the new liberal arts’: Colleges build environmental lessons into degrees - The Hechinger Report - 5 November 2025
Early Learning & Child Care
Child care is so expensive many families are just giving up now, forcing them to sacrifice incomes, savings, and careers - Fortune (subscription model) - 4 November 2025
Zohran Mamdani’s transformative child care plan builds on a history of NYC social innovations - The Conversation - 5 November 2025
New Mexico launched universal free child care. Will other states take note? - Fortune (subscription model) - 4 November 2025
U.S. Department of Education
Special education enforcement would be up to states under Trump plan - Daily Montanan - 5 November 2025
Ed. Dept. Cuts Grants That Were Helping College Students Become Teachers - Education Week (subscription model) - 4 November 2025
Educator Workforce
Billions of Federal Dollars Are Spent on Teacher Training. Less Than Half Goes to Tech PD - Education Week (subscription model) - 5 November 2025
Report: Schools Must Prioritize Teacher Work-Life Balance - neaToday - 3 November 2025
America’s special education crisis: How teacher shortages threaten our most vulnerable students - The News Tribune - 5 November 2025
School Choice
How School Choice Became a Magnet for Capital - The Daily Economy - 5 November 2025
Learner Health & Well-Being
Virtual Reality Therapy Gives Neurodivergent People a Practice Run – Nashville Scene - 5 November 2025
Labor Market & Workforce
For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment - The New York Times (subscription model) - 5 November 2025
📺 Registered Apprenticeship: Scaling the Workforce for the Future - The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions - 5 November 2025
AI & EdTech
3 ways AI will (and won’t) change schools - Chalkbeat - 5 November 2025
AI at HBCUs: High engagement and big potential - University Business - 4 November 2025
Introducing: Work in Progress - General Assembly - 5 November 2025
Opinion: AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It. - The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription model) - 4 November 2025
State & Local News
Colorado | Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps - The Colorado Sun - 5 November 2025
Indiana | 3,000 children repeating third grade under new Indiana literacy requirement - Indiana Capital Chronicle - 5 November 2025
Massachusetts | Teachers know how to fix the reading crisis. The House listened, and now it’s the Senate’s turn - Commonwealth Beacon - 4 November 2025
New Jersey | What a Mikie Sherrill gubernatorial win means for education - Chalkbeat Newark - 5 November 2025
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After Losing My Student to Gun Violence, I Teach for the Ones We Lost - EdSurge - 5 November 2025