A university team built ADHD help that starts in the classroom the moment a child starts struggling, no diagnosis required. What the toolkit does, what its makers honestly claim, and the questions to ask your school this fall.
New Texas school grades land August 14. A Tribune analysis found majority-Black campuses drew far more F’s than A’s, and parents face wrenching choices. The letter reports test outcomes. It reports nothing about reading instruction, the lever Texas law now regulates. Here is what to ask.
Arizona’s Proposition 320 would force big districts to spend 60 percent of their budgets on direct instruction. The catch sits in the definition: athletics count, while the counselors, nurses, and speech pathologists who catch struggling learners do not. Here is what parents should ask.
The largest review of skills-based therapy for adult ADHD finds daily functioning improves, keeps improving after sessions end, and does not always track symptom change. For parents, that reframes the goal: build the skills that run daily life, and judge every support by function.
A proposed federal rule would remove Head Start’s class size, ratio, and curriculum requirements while projecting 236,000 added seats. One side sees local control, the other a rollback. The science points somewhere more useful: what to ask your child’s center now.
The OECD’s Digital Education Outlook 2026 finds AI reliably improves student work without improving the student. Practice scores rose 48 percent; unassisted exam scores fell 17. Here is the question that separates a genuine tutor from a high-tech crutch.
An eye-tracking app that flags struggling readers is spreading across three continents, and its maker claims it diagnoses true reading ability. The gaze signal is real. The cause is not in the eyes. What happens after the flag decides whether screening helps your child.
Oklahoma doubled elementary recess to 40 minutes a day and barred schools from withholding it as punishment. What the law requires, what the evidence supports, and the questions worth asking at your school this fall.
Channel 4’s ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’ drew open letters before an air date existed. Inside the loudest ADHD fight of the year sits a single point of agreement, and for parents it matters more than the verdict either side wants.
A brain-imaging study shows a single dose of ADHD medication steadying children’s brain networks, and headlines stopped there. The full picture includes what the study left unmeasured, what pediatric guidance recommends beside the prescription, and the skills that turn a steadier hour into something a child keeps.
