⚡ Quick ReadsNewark Teacher Says AI Tools Help Students Write Better, Ask Sharper History Questions For nearly two decades, Scott Kern has worked to make history feel more alive for Newark students. He does so through close readings of Fredrick Douglass’ Fourth of July speech or, most recently, by w... Read more → | The 74 Million California Needs Foreign Workers for Teacher Jobs, but Schools Can’t Afford Visa Fee there's a new cost to hiring an international worker to fill a vital but otherwise vacant position in a California classroom: $100,000. In September, the Trump administration began requiring American... Read more → | The 74 Million 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 Sal Khan: A.I. Will Displace Workers at a Scale Many Don’t Realize Companies benefiting from A.I. should donate a small percentage of their profits to retrain the workers the tech will displace. Read more → | New York Times Education More Student Loan Borrowers Are Shedding Debts in Bankruptcy A new study suggests that distressed borrowers using a simpler bankruptcy process are succeeding — and that more people like them should try. Read more → | New York Times Education ‘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 establi... Read more → | Missouri Independent Education |