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Phone bans. #AI pushback. Classroom tech restrictions. The #techlash in education is here.
On Fri., Oct. 30, @arotherham and @erinmote of @innovateEDUny talk about how leaders can separate real concerns from noise and keep kids first.
Register: linkedin.com/events/75143896…
Philadelphia is closing 17 schools and investing $3B in the ones it keeps. More districts will face that balancing act as enrollment declines.
Our new analysis on how state facilities funding can catch up 👇
Accountability scores are supposed to be about what kids in the classroom deserve.
They often end up being about the adults in the building.
Emily Shisler (former director of literacy, parent of a third grader) on what accountability looks like from inside a school 👉 bellwether.org/blog/what-doe…
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Is going test-blind a mistake? College Board's Jeremy Singer calls it "nuts."
WonkyFolk Vol 39 with @arotherham and Jed: AI cheating, the authenticity crisis, NCLB and the FAFSA rescue. @CollegeBoard @bellwetherorg
#SAT
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AI pushback isn’t happening in isolation – it’s tied to screen time bans and growing tech skepticism in schools.
Join @innovateEDUny CEO Erin Mote & @bellwetherorg’s Andy Rotherham on Oct 30 at 1PM ET for a conversation on navigating "techlash."
Register: tinyurl.com/4jrmtkd7
ALT Event graphic for a Bellwether LinkedIn Live event titled "Navigating the Techlash: A Conversation with InnovateEDU's Erin Mote" featuring speakers Erin Mote and Andrew J. Rotherham on Friday, Oct. 30, 1-2 p.m. ET.
At Bellwether, we follow education news closely. Here’s our weekly roundup of the stories shaping schools, students, and policy. 👇🧵
Opinion: AI-powered instruction needs precision. A study tested whether 4 LLMs could measure the difficulty of 1,807 passages. The results were all over the map. By Chris Minnich, @The74
Michigan Gov. Whitmer has until Jan. 1 to opt the state into the federal school tax credit for 2027. Here’s what it could mean for public schools. By Martin Slagter, @chalkbeatDET
Nearly 1 in 6 public school students now gets special education services. That’s 7.8 million students, with enrollment rising every year since 2016. But federal funding per student has dropped 20% over that time, after inflation.
Here's our interactive special education finance equity tool: bellwether.shinyapps.io/spec…
Phone bans. #AI pushback. Classroom tech restrictions. The #techlash in education is here.
On Fri., Oct. 30, @arotherham and @erinmote of @innovateEDUny talk about how leaders can separate real concerns from noise and keep kids first.
Register: linkedin.com/events/75143896…
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Today @eduwonk we've got 2 WonkyFolks, 4 teachers, 2 risks for Science of Reading, 2 fish pics, and more:
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