Evie Blad

Education reporter at @EducationWeek. Send me story ideas about K-12 schools and students. Dog person. Kansan. My high school mascot was farm equipment.

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How Medicaid Spending Cuts Could Harm Schools

6 days ago | edweek.org | Evie Blad

It’s difficult for Superintendent Whitney Oakley to explain all of the ways Medicaid has helped her school district. Like districts around the country, the Guilford County, N.C., school system bills Medicaid for an array of special education services, helping to fill the gap of inadequate federal funding to cover obligations for students with disabilities.
What Are Grades Really For? What Research Says About 4 Common Answers

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Evie Blad

The world's greatest mentalist reveals 5-second trick to never forget someone's nameIt's fun, weird, and will make people like you way more. The longer I'm alive, it seems the more people's names that I have to remember. With two kids …
A Strengths-Based Guide to Assessing Student Progress (DOWNLOADABLE)

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Evie Blad

4 hours agoNo evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office foundAn internal memo, prepared days before Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE agents, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas. Days before masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to deport her, the State …NowWhat Are Grades Really For?
A Strengths-Based Guide to Assessing Student Progress (DOWNLOADABLE)

1 week ago | edweek.org | Evie Blad |Francis Sheehan

Teachers use rubrics to ensure consistency and clarity in grading student assignments by carefully detailing what a successful project looks like. But the seeming simplicity of these assessment tools masks complicated questions about how to measure student progress and how to encourage continued learning, said Kevin Perks, the senior director of Quality Schools and Districts at WestEd, a nonpartisan education research organization.
What Are Grades Really For? What Research Says About 4 Common Answers

1 week ago | edweek.org | Evie Blad

When Laura Link works with districts to review their grading policies, she starts by asking a simple question: What are grades for? Are grades meant to motivate students? To help teachers determine who needs more support? To inform parents of their children’s progress? Link, an associate professor of education at the University of North Dakota, studies how K-12 schools formulate grades and how those decisions affect student learning.
Why JD Vance’s Changing Rhetoric on Tariffs Matters for Schools

1 week ago | edweek.org | Evie Blad

Ensuring that the skills of America’s workers match the needs of its employers is an urgent task, and one that K-12 schools have increasingly embraced. They’re investing in new post-high school pathways that include career exploration, on-the-job internships, and industry partnerships. Now, that focus is part of heated debates erupting among politicians and economists over international trade. The subtext? The need for well-paying jobs that don’t require a four-year college degree.
The Skills Education Leaders Need to Meet the Moment

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Evie Blad

5 hours agoA Win-Win Exit Strategy for Trump on TariffsOffer nations truly reciprocal free trade: zero-barriers, zero-subsidies. With markets still roiling from the steep tariffs President Trump announced last week, the White House needs a smart and urgent exit strategy to restore confidence.
The Skills Education Leaders Need to Meet the Moment

2 weeks ago | edweek.org | Evie Blad

Public education needs leaders with moral courage, a vision for change, and a passion for serving all students, said Natasha Trivers. The Broad Center at the Yale School of Management named Trivers as its next director April 2, a role she will assume in July. The center, established at Yale in 2019, grew out of The Broad Residency in Urban Education, has attracted both praise and skepticism for its emphasis on using bold strategies inspired by the business world to transform school systems.
Federal Efforts Have Curbed Teen Vaping. Will the Recent Cuts Change That?

3 weeks ago | edweek.org | Evie Blad |Mark Walsh

Federal efforts that have successfully driven down rates of youth vaping in recent years may be in peril after dramatic staffing cuts at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HHS leadership placed Brian King, the director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products, on leave April 1 and cut dozens of employees from the center,, which regulates nicotine products and enforces regulations related to warning labels and marketing restrictions.
Lawmakers Want to Fix Student Absenteeism With Ice Cream Parties, Data, and More

3 weeks ago | edweek.org | Evie Blad

Alarmed by stubborn patterns of persistent student absences, state lawmakers have introduced dozens of bills aiming to make school attendance a priority. Legislators from both parties in 20 states have filed 49 bills related to school attendance and chronic absenteeism in their current legislative sessions, according to a new tracker by FutureEd, a think tank at Georgetown University.