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National test results show little progress

Reading scores dropped to a new low on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress while math scores were stagnant for 8th-graders and up slightly for 4th-graders.


Trump guts national labor board

The National Labor Relations Board is at a standstill after President Donald Trump fired board chair Gwynne Wilcox, a Democratic appointee, leaving a total of three vacancies on the five-member panel and ensuring it does not have a quorum to conduct business.

Federal workforce under attack

In the latest salvo in its bid to control and reduce the size of the federal workforce, the Trump administration has decreed that ֱcontract provisions permitting telework for federal employees are invalid because they conflict with management prerogatives.

A decline in 8th-grade computer literacy

Eighth-graders in the United States lost ground on digital literacy between 2018 and 2023, according to the International Computer and Information Literacy Study, which assesses preparedness for the digital world.

Boom in higher ed unionization

More than 50,000 graduate students and other student workers on 51 university campuses nationwide have formed unions since 2022, according to the National Labor Relations Board.


Suit filed against ‘flawed’ reading curricula

Two Massachusetts families have filed a lawsuit against the creators and publishers of widely used whole-language reading curricula claiming that they engaged in “deceptive and fraudulent” marketing of curricula they knew was ineffective.