Small-town school leader earns more than 670K votes in California superintendent race
Wendy Castañeda Leal, a superintendent from a small school district in Kern County, received more than 670,000 votes in the primary for California superintendent of public instruction with the help of a small team of volunteers and without any campaign contributions.
We must move from scarcity to abundance and rebuild high schools for a volatile future
The current "college readiness" model needs to shift from scarcity to abundance, providing all students with the same skills necessary to adapt and thrive in a changing world.
Libraries draw millions of kids each summer, but funding varies dramatically across California
As children spend time in libraries this summer, newly released California State Library data shows that San Francisco Public Library received nearly 17 times as much funding per resident in 2024-25 as Kern County Library — a system serving a slightly larger population and more than twice as many ch
20 attorneys general sue Trump administration over federal contractor DEI order
The plaintiffs argue the president’s March executive order impedes each state’s efforts and is unclear in what it prohibits.
Opinion: How a California District Is Transforming Education in a Rapidly Changing World
Public education, in red and blue states alike, is being pulled apart by student disengagement, mental health needs, culture war battles, voucher expansion, budget uncertainty and the disruptive force of artificial intelligence.新数据再次引发人们对标准化考试成绩及其长达十年的下降的担忧。与此同时，寻求公共教育更多选择的共和党人 [...]
How San Antonio Built One of America’s Most Ambitious Pre-K Programs
2019 年儿子 Rex 出生后，Jasmin Almendarez 意识到德克萨斯州中部的儿童保育成本如此之高，以至于重返工作岗位不再具有经济意义。 “我不想花那么多时间离开，支付所有费用，然后为我的第一个孩子争取最少的时间。”但到了[...]
We can get clean energy by tapping the heat of the Earth. But in Indonesia, geothermal plants destroy the land and lives of people who have long lived there.
Seminar teaches how to ‘resist anti-Black linguistic racism,’ ‘build linguistic justice’
Manchester Metropolitan University recently hosted a seminar on resisting anti-Black linguistic racism, featuring scholars April Baker-Bell and Davena Jackson. They discussed the oppressive systems affecting Black language speakers and proposed transformative pedagogies to challenge anti-Blackness i
Week In Review: Proposed Ed Department cuts and school nurse burnout
We’re rounding up last week’s news, from more federal scrutiny of districts’ LGBTQ+ policies to mixed signals on students’ academic gains.
WATCH: Penn State Abington, a commitment to Greater Philadelphia
对于校长兼院长加里·利古里 (Gary Liguori) 来说，宾夕法尼亚州立大学阿宾顿对学生成功的承诺是非常个人化的。作为第一代大学生，Liguori 理解许多学生面临的挑战。 Those experiences continue to shape how he views Penn State Abington’s role in helping students navigate obstacles, find support and connect with the educational, professional and civic opportunities that help
Violent attacks on schools, pupils and staff around the world up by 40%, says study
Cases reported in 83 countries, with at least 10,600 students and staff killed, injured, abducted or arrested, GCPEA saysAttacks on education globally have surged by 40% with more than 8,556 recorded incidents and 10,600 students and staff killed, injured, abducted, arrested or otherwise harmed in 2
Johns Hopkins study explores U.S. conservatives' relationship with democracy
Right-leaning Americans aim to restore democracy's founding values, not undermine them, according to data gathered by the SNF Agora Institute and collaborators
A laser system, previously tested on board the International Space Station, helped to stream video directly from the Artemis 2 mission on its way around the moon.
NASA X-ray spacecraft discovers supernova wreckage at the heart of the Milky Way
NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft has detected the supernova wreckage of a dead star that erupted 1,700 years ago and ejected debris at 2 million miles per hour.
How Jules Verne predicted the Artemis 2 mission to the moon almost 160 years ago
Written in the 1860s, Jules Verne’s novels "From the Earth to the Moon" and "All Around the Moon" were highly speculative fiction in their time, but tell a tale that now seems remarkably familiar: three astronauts in a conical capsule on a free-return trajectory around the moon.
Description of a new species of the orb-weaver spider genus Zangaraneus Mi, Wang & Feng, 2026 (Araneae, Araneidae) from ChinaAbstractBackgroundThe orb-weaver spider genus Zangaraneus Mi, Wang & Feng, 2026 contains four species known only from Xizang, China. In our recent study, the fifth species has
对摩洛哥蜘蛛动物区系知识的贡献（蛛形纲：Araneae）——第三个注释。关于十六个新物种，还有值得注意的记录摘要。我们根据 2021 年至 2025 年期间采样的材料，介绍了摩洛哥蜘蛛研究的最新结果。在 Tazekka NP 和 Beni Snassen 地块总共调查了 8 个洞穴。还调查了其他几个栖息地（例如沿海栖息地、混交林、干旱石质草原、灌木斜坡、青金石等）。总共记录了10科40种。十六个物种被描述为科学新物种： Agelescape atlas Lecigne sp.。十一月； Berlandina campestris Lecigne & Moutaouakil sp.十一月； Dy
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #694
本周引述：“在科学辩论中，具有决定性意义的既不是权力也不是权威，而只有科学真理本身”——费伦茨·迪克 (Ferenc Deák)，1803−1876 年，匈牙利政治家 [H/t István János Kovács]《每周气候与能源新闻综述》第 694 期文章首先出现在 Watts Up With That? 上。
