🎓 The SuperBriefDaily Education News for School Leaders | Good morning! It's Thursday, December 25, 2025. Here's what's happening in K-12 education today. | 💡 Quote of the Day "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited." — Plutarch | ⚡ Quick ReadsCalifornia K-12 schools brace for another year of uncertainty: 2025 in review California schools are likely to face continuing threats of funding cuts and more uncertainty. Read more → | CalMatters Education A year of cuts and court orders for California’s colleges and universities: 2025 in review In their approach to higher education, Trump and Newsom shared one thing in common this year: reducing funding for colleges and universities. The federal government pulled back research funds while th... Read more → | CalMatters Education Opinion: Jigsaw Puzzles Help Make Mathematics Learning More Active and Fun Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means table top games quickly reappear on kitchen tables. Games provide opportunities for learnin... Read more → | The 74 Million She Reimagined Dolls for Her daughter — and Defied Stereotypes About Indigenous Women When Cara Romero’s daughter was 11, she became interested in dolls. Romero, who's an enrolled member of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe in Southern California, began to think about doll culture more deep... Read more → | The 74 Million The Class Where ‘Screenagers’ Train to Navigate Social Media and A.I. New technologies are complicating efforts to teach the scrolling generation to think critically and defensively online. Read more → | New York Times Education They Were Supposed to Protect Young Workers. Instead, They Cashed In. Profit-seekers co-opted America’s premier cultural exchange program, the J-1 visa, which brought young people to work in the United States. Some sponsors charged thousands in fees. Read more → | New York Times Education Even more Cal State campuses will automatically admit eligible students under a new state law California State University last year launched a pilot program to attract more students to the university system and to steer some to campuses that have been struggling with enrollment declines. Read more → | CalMatters Education |
| 📰 Today's Top Stories📰 With intervention, flamingos can expand in Florida, UCF research says University of Central Florida researchers using genetic information say that, with intervention, depleted flamingo populations in Florida can recover. A study led by biology graduate student Jessica Folsom used genomic data in determining the flamingo population and its genetics in Florida and pr... Read more → | Florida Phoenix 👨🎓 Trump administration to garnish wages for defaulted student loans WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default beginning early next year, the U.S. Education Department said Tuesday. In an email, the department said it expects the first notices to be sent to roughly 1,000 borrowers in d... Read more → | Florida Phoenix 💻 Text-to-speech technology benefits all students Text-to-speech technology, commonly used as a digital accessibility tool in secondary education, can benefit all students, no -More- Read more → | SmartBrief ASCD Education 👨🎓 Secondary sources support history instruction for students Secondary sources are a powerful tool to make history more engaging and meaningful for high-school students, writes history t -More- Read more → | SmartBrief ASCD Education 📰 Del., Ind. show how schools can connect classwork, career High schools in Delaware and Indiana are integrating real-world learning experiences to better prepare students for post-grad -More- Read more → | SmartBrief ASCD Education 👨🎓 School district, health center partner on student care Springfield Public Schools in Missouri is collaborating with Jordan Valley Community Health Center to provide free health car -More- Read more → | SmartBrief ASCD Education 🧠 Judge orders reinstatement of mental health grants A federal judge has ordered the permanent reinstatement of mental health grants from the Education Department in 16 states, d -More- Read more → | SmartBrief ASCD Education | 📊 Quick Poll What's your biggest concern about federal education policy? Reply to this email with your answer! | | | 📅 Upcoming EventsFETC 2026 - Future of Education Technology Conference 📍 Orlando, FL • 🗓️ Jan 13-16, 2026 • LRP Conferences Learn More → • In 19 days TASA Midwinter Conference 2026 📍 Austin, TX • 🗓️ Jan 25-27, 2026 • TASA Learn More → AASA National Conference on Education 2026 📍 New Orleans, LA • 🗓️ Feb 19-21, 2026 • AASA, The School Superintendents Association Learn More → SXSW EDU 2026 📍 Austin, TX • 🗓️ Mar 02-05, 2026 • SXSW Learn More → ASCD Annual Conference 2026 📍 Atlanta, GA • 🗓️ Mar 20-23, 2026 • ASCD Learn More → Have an event to share? Email us | Someone you know needs to see this. Only you can send it. 📧 Forward to a Colleague | Thanks for reading! We'll be back tomorrow with fresh stories from the world of education. 💬 Feedback? Have a story, appointment, or trend your colleagues should know? Reply to this email. | 📬 You're reading The SuperBrief A daily executive digest crafted for superintendents, board chairs, and education leaders navigating K–12 at the speed of policy. © 2025 The SuperBrief. All rights reserved. |
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