COMMENTARY: AI in schools could be a disaster, but it doesn’t have to be We need leaders at all levels — but especially at the state level where policy is usually made — to offer districts clearer support and guidelines about appropriate and inappropriate uses.

> @mpolikoff.bsky.social: Schools must figure out how to get kids to complete the hard work necessary to learn, in spite of AI’s temptations. More in-class work/assessment, less busy work, & coaching parents, too, on dangers #edchat @uscrossier.bsky.social @edsource.org edsource.org/2026/ai-revo...

Solving the mysterious disappearance of UW Bothell’s crows  - News Faculty expert provides his theories as to why crows no longer roost at the North Creek Wetland on campus

#Crows in the #Seattle area seem to have found a new overnight roost 🐦‍⬛ www.uwb.edu/news/2026/03...

But then you don’t get the “extra” credit in the CRM 😅

As Enrollment Falls, Old Schools Find New Life as Apartments In 2024, nearly 2,000 apartments opened in former schools. Some see the conversions as a cure for neighborhood blight. Others fear gentrification.

Underenrolled, historic school buildings are finding new life as housing - potentially ensuring that neighborhoods don't suffer from blight and increasing the number of teachers that live within their districts www.the74million.org/article/as-e...

The story of ed tech is a repeated loop of massive hype and massive disappointment

See MOOCs, and now AI

Evidence can interrupt this unproductive cycle

The Stanford SCALE Initiative, led by rock star Prof Susanna Loeb, brings evidence to the conversation scale.stanford.edu/sites/defaul...

It’s the honeydew that’s the problem

ICYMI @edfund.bsky.social has a new RFP for research projects in education finance - Letters of interest due April 24 ed-fund.org/research-fun... #eduresearch #edpolicy #edfinance

Keen insights here. She describes well some classroom dynamics that are very hard to explain but yet you can immediately feel when you’re in a classroom

“in every classroom, the vast majority of kids are eager, curious, and friendly. They’re just kind of great.”

CALDER Webinar: The Four-Day School Week: New Evidence for District Leaders and Policymakers Featuring Emily Morton and Andrew Camp

Four‑day school weeks are gaining traction—but do they deliver on their promises? Hear new findings from @nwea.bsky.social's Emily Morton & @annenberginstitute.bsky.social's @andrewmcamp.com on April 22 at 1 PM ET.

Register: bit.ly/4rNbwP3

Interesting

The 4-day people quickly pivoted to “it helps us attract teachers” while ignoring that you’re creating massive new costs for parents

Enrollment at Illinois public K-12 schools is down 10% over the past decade. Will some schools have to close? ipmnewsroom.org/enrollment-a...

(Yes, though if you're not also prepared to offload the property & downsize the staff you're going to have big fights with relatively little to show for it.)

Is Arizona’s ESA Plagued by Unallowable Expenses? Our new report digs into the transaction-level data to find out about whether those dollars are in fact going to educational expenses.

Regardless of how you might feel about ESA programs, the opportunity to examine transaction-level spending data in education, and at the student-level to boot, is pretty interesting. It's a lot of data, though! www.edchoice.org/2026-is-ariz...

ESSER pandemic spending is over. What will its legacy be? Education finance experts say the effectiveness of relief funds is hard to measure — but schools would be worse off without the money.

Happy belated ESSER liquidation to all who celebrate... 😉 Seriously, agree with takes here. Let's hope we start building the data infrastructure to track #education spending more systematically/seamlessly, so that we have a better sense of what worked and what didn't www.k12dive.com/news/esser-p...

It was underrated but I feel like FX’s Mrs. America was one of the better shows about American politics we’ve seen next to VEEP

California is spending more than ever on education . . . Why are so many districts going broke? Jon Fullerton

Love this explainer. That short-term costs are “sticky” is a tenet of basic economics, but this shows just what that means in schooling: substack.com/home/post/p-...

I had 0 minute wait this morning in Seattle - granted it was 5 am

'Structural Disaster': Audit Slams DOE Over Local Food Mandate The DOE has not taken the effort seriously and has no real plan for how to meet a legislative mandate to spend 30% of its food budget locally by 2030, according to a state audit.

In a recent year, #Hawaii's public schools purchased more imported canned fruit (including pineapple!) than they did any local food, despite a state mandate that the islands source 30% of #schoolmeals by 2030 www.civilbeat.org/2026/03/push...

How eight Democrats could elect a Republican governor in California A crowded field of eight California Democrats is splitting the race for governor, as the coalition behind outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom begins to fracture.

The wildly open #gubernatorial primary in #California shows the coalition of environmental groups, organized labor, progressive activists, and business-friendly moderates is unraveling without Newsom nypost.com/2026/03/07/o...

I think the pool of candidates could be very different depending on the outcome of the election, but maybe not?

Nice interview. The hardest thing for them to do is pick a new CEO while they’re still in transition

Interesting notes here. I do wonder if open meetings acts get in the way of coalition building

The Land-Use Question: When School Closures Become Neighborhood Policy - Research for Action By Alyn Turner When districts announce school closures, the framing is almost always educational: declining enrollment, underutilized buildings, operating costs, academic performance. But for the comm...

"Districts struggle to move closed school buildings into productive reuse, and holding vacant buildings is expensive" www.researchforaction.org/news-events/...

States weigh limits, outright bans on ed tech in schools Momentum appears to be growing against any screen time in schools as states like Tennessee and Kansas propose prohibiting ed tech for grades K-5.

A sign of things to come? www.k12dive.com/news/states-...

HB 2393 / SB 2310 in #Tennessee, as currently drafted, would ban not just cell phones, but 1:1 district-provided devices for K-5 instruction. Pretty remarkable turn of events given the persistent "AI is here" claims in many #education corners

Overall, Amber Northern's report seems to underscore the important role of #IES in providing the baseline data and research infrastructure that supports so much of what we know about improvement in #education #eddata ies.ed.gov/learn/blog/r...

The moment many of us in #edresearch have been waiting for...

Reimagining the Institute of Education Sciences has been released.

ies.ed.gov/ies/2026/02/...

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It seemed like the consumer stand to gain from preserving WB as a major studio while potentially losing out if the Netflix/HBO streamings were combined. Now the market is losing a studio and moving Paramount+ content to HBO Max likely does little for the consumer either