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Good morning! It's Saturday, December 27, 2025.

Today's essential education news, curated for you.

💡 Quote of the Day

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think."

— Socrates

⚡ Quick Reads

Newark 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...

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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

📰 Today's Top Stories

📰 Homeless youth say they need more from schools, social services

Twenty-year-old Mikayla Foreman knows her experience is meaningful. Dealing with homelessness since 18 and currently living in a shelter, Foreman has managed to continue her academic journey, studying for exams this month in hopes of attaining a nursing degree. But Foreman believes there were int...

Read more → | Florida Phoenix

🔢 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

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