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July 14
Education policy
California’s Career Ed Formula Lost $115 Million. The Students Who Needed Those Classes Most Paid for It.
California earmarked $300 million a year for career education programs — the hands-on classes that often keep struggling learners engaged in school. A 2-to-1 matching requirement sent $115 million back…
Education policy
California Made Preschool Funding Permanent. The Hard Question Comes After.
California locked preschool into Proposition 98's constitutional guarantee — a genuine funding win. But for the one in five children who will struggle to read, stable funding and the right…
Education policy
Pennsylvania Spends More on Special Ed While Proven Reading Methods Stay Underfunded
Pennsylvania's $55 million special education increase looks like progress. Only 8 percent of students with disabilities read at grade level, unchanged from last year, and the law mandating proven reading…
Dyslexia
Rhythm Game Flags Dyslexia Risk Before a Child Reads a Word
By the time most schools spot a reading struggle, a child has spent months falling behind. CICESE scientists built a game that catches the same risk at four — through…
ADHD
Courts Revived Tylenol ADHD Lawsuits, But Science Still Shows No Link
A federal appeals court revived 500+ Tylenol suits Monday. Coverage treated it as a scientific story about ADHD and autism. The JAMA study of 708,020 pregnancies published two weeks earlier…
July 13
Education policy
States Count Empty Chairs But Miss Why Struggling Learners Skip School
Six states enacted laws to track and punish chronic absenteeism in 2026. What none of them require: finding out whether the child staying home has a learning challenge the school…
Education policy
Retaining Third Graders Won’t Fix Nevada Schools That Never Taught Reading Right
More than half of Nevada third graders are not reading at grade level. The state is fighting over whether to retain them in third grade. Neither side is talking about…
Innovation
Rural Schools Start Credentialing Emotional Intelligence and Problem-Solving This Fall
Rural employers demanded soft skills for years. This fall, 120+ Kansas schools are credentialing them. Research on learning differences explains why parents of struggling kids should pay attention now.
Dyscalculia
One in 17 Kids Has Dyscalculia. Almost None Are Ever Diagnosed.
The education system built an entire infrastructure to find reading differences. It never built the equivalent for math. A March 2026 Parliamentary brief confirms the cost: a child with dyslexia…
AI in education
UChicago Law Bans Laptops to Build Thinkers Before It Teaches AI
UChicago Law School banned laptops from all first-year classrooms as the cornerstone of a new AI strategy. The reason the coverage missed: this is what learning science says to do.…