🎓 The SuperBriefDaily Education News for School Leaders | Good morning! It's Friday, December 26, 2025. Your daily briefing on what's shaping K-12 education. | 💡 Quote of the Day "Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think." — Albert Einstein | ⚡ 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 Getting Ultraprocessed Food Out of School Meals: What it Takes to Scratch Cook In April, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. turned the focus of his Make American Healthy Again movement toward school food, promising “major, dramatic changes” in scho... Read more → | The 74 Million 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 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 Prominent Leaders Amplify Disinformation About Brown University Shooting Prominent business and government figures spread rumors about the attack on Brown University’s campus this month, reigniting questions about accountability in online discourse. Read more → | New York Times Education John Carey, Literary Eminence Who Excoriated Snobbery, Dies at 91 An Oxford professor and renowned critic, he was pugnacious, fearless and disdainful of the received wisdom of his intellectual milieu. Read more → | New York Times Education |
| 📰 Today's Top Stories🏫 ‘Emotionally moving’: Idaho Falls charter students raise thousands for charity “In all my years of education, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Alturas International Academy principal Carina VanPelt. Read more → | Idaho Education News 📰 Missouri lawmakers seek to expand agriculture education in statewide program Missouri public school students could see more agriculture-based science lessons starting in kindergarten through high school under bills prefiled in both state legislative chambers that would establish a new statewide program. Lawmakers in the state’s more populous cities filed the bills, hoping... Read more → | Missouri Independent Education 📰 NKY Education Council seeking nominations for its Excellence in Education awards The Northern Kentucky Education Council is seeking nominations for its annual Excellence in Education Celebration Awards. The awards recognize Northern Kentucky’s outstanding students, educators, staff, postsecondary leaders, nonprofit organizations, and business partners. Nominations are now ope... Read more → | NKY Tribune (Kentucky) 🔢 Why new math problems won’t solve our nation’s math problem How much longer will we keep trying to solve our nation’s dismal math proficiency problem by writing new math problems? Clearly, if that was the answer, it would have worked by now--but it hasn’t. Read more → | eSchool News 🔢 This math platform leverages AI coaching to help students tackle tough concepts Math is a fundamental part of K-12 education, but students often face significant challenges in mastering increasingly challenging math concepts. Read more → | eSchool News | 📊 Quick Poll What's your district's biggest challenge right now? 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 18 days TASA Midwinter Conference 2026 📍 Austin, TX • 🗓️ Jan 25-27, 2026 • TASA Learn More → • In 30 days 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 | That's a wrap on today's education news. See you tomorrow for the next briefing! 💬 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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