It’s price being attentive to what readers of the Schooling Subsequent weblog are drawn to every yr. At a time when all method of short-form articles and movies are competing for individuals’s consideration, the blogs that handle to chop by the noise and command an viewers deserve one other look. They could simply be a weathervane pointing within the course the place the winds of college reform are blowing.
One throughline within the EdNext weblog in 2025 was curiosity about why some issues work in schooling and others don’t. Two edtech startup founders, Abdirahman Guleed and Kedaar Sridhar, posited one motive for American college students’ lackluster math efficiency could also be inscrutable language that impedes comprehension of math ideas. In issues of historical past, constitution college founder and blogger Matthew Levey famous how the recognition of content material producers like Joe Rogan and Ken Burns level to a starvation for data in regards to the American story that conventional lecture rooms simply aren’t offering. Serial schooling entrepreneur Michael Goldstein took be aware of philanthropist John Arnold’s rising pessimism about Ok–12 college reform efforts—and defined why he nonetheless stays optimistic in regards to the potential for artistic downside fixing to change younger individuals’s long-term trajectories.
Schooling Subsequent government editor Rick Hess claimed a number of spots in our annual checklist once more this yr by advantage of his weekly opinion column “Previous Faculty with Rick Hess.” With a novel mix of perception, knowledge, and wit, OSRH (as we confer with it colloquially) has gained a trustworthy following within the two years because it debuted. Readers turned to the weblog to make sense of the titanic adjustments within the federal authorities’s function in schooling, first as DOGE effected heavy cuts to personnel and analysis funding on the Division of Schooling, and later as ED introduced company partnerships to dump its bureaucratic commitments. At the same time as Hess remained uncertain that the adjustments would quantity to a lot in the long term, he welcomed the company’s renewed scrutiny on larger schooling.
Though the nation continued to stumble by one other lackluster displaying in NAEP outcomes, readers appreciated the eye Hess drew to 1 optimistic end result: the so-called Southern Surge of spectacular good points in scores from Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. However within the absence of different bits of excellent information, OSRH resorted to satire, and readers responded enthusiastically. (A particular level of pleasure at EdNext is that the highest weblog put up of the yr, which lampooned a speech by the president in an unlikely place, garnered the consideration of the fact-checking web site Snopes.)
From dangerous information to good, gravity to levity, readers can proceed to rely on the Schooling Subsequent weblog for considerate and fascinating commentary about Ok–12 schooling.
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