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July 5

AI in education Jul 5 Students Know AI Is Hurting Their Thinking. Schools Keep Expanding AI Programs. RAND’s March 2026 study found 67 percent of students believe AI use erodes critical thinking skills, up 10-plus percentage points in a single year. Schools are responding by adding AI… ADHD Jul 5 A School Built for Neurodiverse Brains Shows What Mainstream Gets Wrong When a school in Auckland redesigned the learning environment around neurodiverse brains instead of asking kids to adapt, the results followed. Crimson Education’s 2026 acquisition to scale the model confirms… Education policy Jul 5 Florida’s Schools Got As. Harvard Put Its Reading Scores Dead Last. Florida's school grading system just handed As to three-quarters of schools — but Harvard and Stanford researchers placed the state dead last in reading growth among 35 states. Here's what… Dyslexia Jul 5 Excluded at 16 for Being Undiagnosed, He Earned a Neuroscience Degree Faysal Yusuf was permanently excluded from school at 16, his dyslexia and dyscalculia undiagnosed for years. He is now finishing a neuroscience degree. His story is not an inspiration —…

July 4

ADHD Jul 4 Girls Are Missing ADHD Diagnoses Because the System Was Built for Boys Your daughter does not look like the hyperactive kid nobody can ignore. That is exactly why the ADHD diagnostic system keeps missing girls like her, and why a Monash University… Education policy Jul 4 Rhode Island Owes Homebound Special Education Kids Five Hours. They Are Getting Two. Rhode Island requires five hours of weekly in-home instruction for homebound special education students. Some are getting two. The staffing-shortage explanation is accurate as far as it goes. Federal law… Education policy Jul 4 South Carolina Is Finding Struggling Readers in First Grade. The Rest Is Politics. South Carolina started tracking reading proficiency in first grade this year, and scores rose six points. The same budget also suspended other state tests via a single proviso. Early identification… Innovation Jul 4 Schools Pushed These Teens Out. Philadelphia Built Them an Evening High School. Philadelphia’s new evening high school for pushed-out teens is built around special education teachers and IEP support — because the students it serves were identifiable years earlier. The innovation is… AI in education Jul 4 Schools Scale AI Fast. 77 Percent of Students Get No Training to Use It. Microsoft’s 2026 global survey found 58% of school leaders are scaling AI while 77% of students received no formal training. RAND documents the equity fallout: high-poverty schools have half the… Education policy Jul 4 Missouri’s New School Report Cards Tell Parents the Wrong Story Missouri’s education department sent its A-F school grading plan with its own warning attached: data quality concerns, IT gaps, a compressed timeline. Research finds these grades track the demographics of…