This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues
Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here):
I think this is a problem with a lot education research, too. Instructional strategies taught by teachers who are motivated enough to buy into trying them out is not the same as introducing them to teachers, depending on their district, might just consider them the “new initiative of the month”
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
This is so true. Is there any other topic that so many people feel like they are experts on? I have walked into many buildings in my life – does that make me an expert in architecture?
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The moves dramatically accelerate a decades-long push by conservatives to eliminate the Education Department. The decisions also make clear the administration’s willingness to use legal workarounds to evade Congress.
— Chalkbeat (@chalkbeat.org) November 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM
DeSantis’s makeover of ‘left-wing’ Florida college has been costly www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Schools in the US are installing vape-detection tech in bathrooms to thwart student nicotine and cannabis use. A new investigation reveals the impact of using spying to solve a problem. www.wired.com/story/vaping…
— WIRED (@wired.com) November 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Why Republicans are worried about Trump’s plans to split the Education Department
— Politico (@politico.com) November 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
She was blacklisted during McCarthyism. Now she’s speaking out against Florida’s teaching standards apnews.com/article/flor…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
How Rural Kids Got Left Behind is from The NY Times.
Inside the dawn patrols where San Diego teachers track ICE: ‘We have to resist’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Attendance drops in Wake, Durham, Chapel Hill schools during Border Patrol surge. On Tuesday, 19,471 Wake County students were absent, or nearly 1 in 9 kids. That was 7,841 more absences compared to a normal day. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e… #nced #ncpol #wcpss
— Keung Hui (@keunghui.bsky.social) November 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Trump administration’s effort to end 1960s school desegregation cases faces a hurdle apnews.com/article/dese…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
School Groups Sue to Stop Dismantling of the Education Department www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ha. You think this is bad? This one time, a high school English department had a meeting about maybe replacing To Kill A Mockingbird in their curriculum. The Secretary of State doesn’t have anything on those censorship-crazed teachers!
— Jenn Borgioli Binis (@jennbinis.bsky.social) November 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
“My mentor always tells me, ‘Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars.” They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes,” says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
— Perry Bacon (@perrybaconjr.bsky.social) November 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn www.npr.org/sections/sho…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Trump administration plan to reduce access to some student loans angers nurses, health care groups apnews.com/article/nurs…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Perhaps complicated issues may not have simple explanations
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Yeah, I’m sure Those ‘less requirements’ are going to work out well for students
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
In an all-staff meeting, Ed Secretary Linda McMahon said it was critical to get the “messaging” right: “We are not talking about shutting down the Department of Education. We are talking about returning education to states.”
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20…— Laura Meckler (@laurameckler.bsky.social) November 24, 2025 at 6:58 AM
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 24, 2025 at 7:17 AM
At ICE, we’re respectin’ power
Join ICE, I hear they got great hours
There’s a sign-on bonus of 50 grand
They’re in need of you, needin’ to feel like a man— Jen Jennings (@jenjennings.bsky.social) November 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Thank you, teacher evaluator, for spending no time prior to the lesson learning my objectives and challenges, and for having zero understanding of the community context of my school, & for using a 60 point rubric, & for giving me absolutely useless feedback
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
It’s no secret that going to college can be very expensive, with tuition costs rising faster than financial aid. But what’s causing that price tag to rise so quickly? n.pr/4raZrEt
— NPR (@npr.org) November 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Jewish group vies to open nation’s first religious charter school www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This should help undocumented families dealing with FAFSA
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Zohran Mamdani campaigned on ending mayoral control of NYC schools. Eric Adams has already ceded some of it.
— Chalkbeat (@chalkbeat.org) November 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The last time that the tax was on the ballot, in 2016, 63% of voters backed it.
— EdSource (@edsource.org) November 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This is really interesting! Does this suggest that Lucy Caulkins, reduced standardized testing, and less punitive accountability’ r not to blame for reduced test scores in the US?
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
— Politico (@politico.com) November 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
When Border Patrol showed up across Charlotte, parents and neighbors rushed to Berryhill to meet kids at the bus stop. They stood watch, linked arms, and made one thing clear: if the city gets targeted, its children will not face it alone.
This is what community looks like.💙— Peggy Stuart (@peggystuart.bsky.social) November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Justice Dept. Sues California Over College Benefits for Undocumented Students www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The Ten Commandments are up in Texas schools. They’re also being taken down
apnews.com/article/ten-…
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) November 20, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Tribal colleges in the U.S. are under threat is from NPR.
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