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July 6

ADHD Jul 6 Fifty-Five Studies Confirm ADHD Time Blindness Is Neurological, Not Defiance A 55-study meta-analysis confirms ADHD time blindness is neurological, not defiant. The internal clock is genuinely impaired. Here’s what that reframe means for how you parent and what strategies actually… ADHD Jul 6 ADHD Medication Use Doubled in Five Years. Data Points to a Missing Conversation. ADHD medication consumption jumped 98% in five years, with amphetamines surging 675%. The surge signals a system reaching for efficiency over effectiveness — and what parents can do about it.

July 5

ADHD Jul 5 New Study of 10,000 Children Finds the Diagnostic Boxes Are Wrong A new Molecular Psychiatry study of more than 10,000 children found ADHD, autism, and dyslexia are dimensions of the same neurodevelopmental spectrum, not three separate conditions. Here is what that… Education policy Jul 5 Massachusetts Dropped the MCAS Graduation Gate. The Replacement Needs Scrutiny. Massachusetts voters ended the MCAS graduation requirement in 2024. Now the replacement plan proposes end-of-course tests that “meaningfully count toward graduation.” For kids with learning differences, the capstone component offers… Education policy Jul 5 Reading Science Is Reaching Your Child’s Teachers. A Federal Freeze Threatens That. Congress protected federal teacher training funds in February. OMB froze $2 billion anyway. Here is what that means for the reading science finally reaching your child's classroom, and the one… AI in education Jul 5 Federal Bills Push AI Into K-12 Schools. Parents Should Ask Who Benefits. Two bipartisan federal bills want to bring AI literacy into every K-12 classroom. The endorser list for one of them includes OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. That is not a neutral… Innovation Jul 5 Nevada College Program Shows At-Risk Labels Are Part of the Problem A Nevada college program stopped calling Native students “at-risk” and gave them five days on campus instead. Three peer-reviewed research streams explain exactly why that order matters—and what it means… Education policy Jul 5 Georgia Charters Win Federal Millions. Parents of Struggling Learners Need This Data. Georgia's charter schools collected $2.4 million in new federal grants. For parents of kids who learn differently, the bigger question isn't which schools got the money. It's what the research… Innovation Jul 5 New Missouri Virtual School Offers Credits Without Fixing Why Students Fell Behind Missouri's new K12-powered virtual high school targets teens who fell behind. Research shows online credit recovery doesn't improve graduation rates, and the program structurally cannot deliver IEP services requiring in-person… Dyslexia Jul 5 A Festival for Neurodiverse Kids Does Something a Diagnosis Never Can When a child files “I’m not a reader” as a prediction about their future, every hard lesson confirms it. Ireland’s first Midlands NeuroArt Festival on August 22 is a community…