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June 24

ADHD Jun 24 Dopamine Menus Offer Kids a Calmer Path to Motivation A simple tool called the dopamine menu is helping families support focus without a new app or prescription. Here is where it came from, what the science does and does… Dyslexia Jun 24 Connecticut Schools Catch Reading Struggles Earlier With Statewide Screening Connecticut's Right to Read law is catching young readers' struggles years earlier, screening K-3 children three times a year. Early districts already report gains. Here is what the shift means… Education policy Jun 24 Virginia Budget Adds $148 Million for Special Education Students Virginia lawmakers advanced a $205 billion budget that adds $148.4 million for special education students, a $1.4 billion K-12 increase, and a 4 percent teacher raise each year. It now… Homeschool Jun 24 New Bill Would Let Military Homeschool Families Keep Home-State Rules Every military move has meant relearning a new state's homeschool rules. A bill introduced in Congress this month, the COMPASS Act, would let military families keep their home state's rules… Dyslexia Jun 24 Picture Book About Reading With Dyslexia Wins Carnegie Illustration Medal If you have watched a child fight a page of twisting letters, you know how early reading shapes how kids see themselves. A new picture book about reading with dyslexia… AI in education Jun 24 Educators Reframe Classroom AI as a Tool for Thinking, Not Cheating Worried AI is doing your child's thinking for them? You are right to be. At a recent educator conference, teachers reframed classroom AI as a tool whose value depends on…

June 23

Dyslexia Jun 23 Ontario Brings Structured Reading Into Kindergarten to Catch Struggles Early For years many classrooms taught children to guess words instead of decode them, failing the readers who needed real instruction most. Ontario's new kindergarten curriculum builds explicit phonics in from… Innovation Jun 23 Iowa Opens Statewide Summer Math Training for Teachers Under New Law Math struggle often traces to how the subject is taught, not to a child who lacks ability. Iowa opened statewide summer training in evidence-based math instruction, part of a new… Dyscalculia Jun 23 New Research Explores AI as a Strengths-Based Support for Twice-Exceptional Kids Bright kids who stall in one subject are often misread. A new framework in Education Sciences proposes that generative AI fits how gifted, twice-exceptional learners think, and argues for strengths-based…

April 22

Innovation Apr 22 St. Paul Launches Minnesota’s First Afrocentric Public School Program Benjamin E. Mays School in St. Paul is pioneering a new approach to education with the launch of Minnesota's first public school district-run Afrocentric learning program.