The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 2h35 years after launching, Teach for America’s network includes more than 77,000 teachers, tutors and alumni. About 75% are working full time in education or mission-related fields bit.ly/4jwohwZ 001
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 7hFrom feedback to finger lasers, mentors help 50 teachers in 5 districts turn learning to read from 'pulling teeth' to a fun activity for young kids bit.ly/4hoNaIc 012
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 23hHelping vulnerable children thrive by helping their parents navigate their own challenges could become optional under proposed federal rule change bit.ly/4hwscr5 020
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Rapaport: Asked to upload their kids' school attendance record from last year, most parents said they didn't have one or couldn't find it online bit.ly/3TyUmcS 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Aldeman: At 15 Missouri schools, literacy scores for low-income students, English learners & children with disabilities are much higher than expected bit.ly/3T6QY9e 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Grades can give the false impression that students are on track. A Learning Heroes survey suggests parents are beginning to question what schools tell them bit.ly/4z3Gk29 011
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Rafal-Baer: Female candidates who've worked as interim supes still face a search process when men don't. I call it the Audition Tax. And it's not new bit.ly/4xLPcIQ 010
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Department of Education on Monday officially rescinded the Biden-era Title IX rule, which extended protections to LGBTQ students. The move, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said, will give parents “greater comfort” www.the74million.org/article/educ... 476239
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Starting in the 2026 tax season, early childhood educators can claim a tax deduction for out-of-pocket classroom expenses bit.ly/46DEKbf 010
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Griffith: It's time to recognize charter schools for the excellent education and options they provide and fund them accordingly www.the74million.org/article/even... 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 28/09/2026From St. Louis to the suburbs, fewer children are forcing districts to rethink staffing, buildings and budgets bit.ly/4AxN6yN 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Adams: A majority of families expressed enthusiasm about limits on screen time and AI — but even many who agreed in principle had concerns bit.ly/4hu1RtO 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Posamentier & Adams: The result could be more chaotic kindergarten classes and diminished social readiness that will extend to high school and beyond bit.ly/3Vgprmf 032
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Chronic absenteeism is still high. @usedgov’s decision to suspend some state monitoring efforts could leave the public in the dark on whether schools are making progress, says @USGAO www.the74million.org/article/drop... 010
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"My hands were shaking the entire rest of the afternoon." A 15-year-old describes surviving Alpha School's heart-rate test. The tasks weren't uncovered by investigators — students posted them themselves bit.ly/4ho8vS5 023
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Here’s what The 74 learned about the recurring role of schools and educators in nearly 2,000 lawsuits alleging childhood sexual abuse www.the74million.org/article/5-th... 010
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One study found a majority don’t speak about their abuse until age 50. Many states have opened windows for old claims, lifted time bars on new ones bit.ly/4havKjZ 043
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The momentum around recess has been building for years. Emily Tate Sullivan reports on efforts to give kids more time for unstructured play during the school day bit.ly/4AvL7uN 001
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The Education Department’s process for calculating chronic absenteeism rates also produces unreliable data, according to the Government Accountability Office. @lrj417.bsky.social reports www.the74million.org/article/drop... 030
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Manno: The key lesson — don't let workforce credential systems grow out of control before building the infrastructure needed to govern them bit.ly/3TI71ue 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 24/09/2026As a teacher, Amanda Geduld tried to report on adults crossing boundaries with students. As a reporter, she dug through thousands of sex abuse claims www.the74million.org/article/how-... 010
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“I would love to be able to show the efficacy of different donations,” Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado said about the new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit www.the74million.org/article/as-w... 002
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Could programs that support early childhood educators with student loan repayment help the field with workforce retention? bit.ly/46zh2Nj 000
Reposted by The 74Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026Decades of harm: New York schools named in nearly 2,000 child sex abuse claims [in partnership with @the74.bsky.social]motherjones.comDecades of harm: New York schools named in nearly 2,000 child sex abuse claimsA law that opened a window for survivors to seek justice for past abuse also exposed how schools enabled alleged predators. 47123
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The 74 investigation reveals that more than 18% of all the NY state Child Victim Act cases — or nearly 1 in 5 — attest that a child was sexually abused, assaulted or raped by an adult who had access to them through their school bit.ly/3Tmn00N 002
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Arcane language, opaque processes and inconsistent communication often leave families unable to get the special education services their children need. One parent described it as "playing a game I didn't have the rules to" buff.ly/afFX4Ki 021
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Meek: Content that once festered in dark corners of social media — where masculinity means controlling and overpowering women — is now mainstream bit.ly/4yatLSI 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Gupta: If you haven’t been truly bad at something lately and climbed your way to proficiency or mastery, then you are out of touch as an educator bit.ly/4rlEZ44 020
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Filipic: When Congress voted to slash the SNAP last year, it put school meals on the chopping block for students and whole districts bit.ly/47cp6nb 021
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Students’ View: Our generation is the first to grow up with artificial intelligence as part of everyday life. We need help navigating it bit.ly/4hmmRnc 000
Reposted by The 7419thnews @19thnews.org · 16/09/2026Tulsa’s alert system has caught the attention of organizations doing similar work from Dallas to Dayton, Ohio. But the resources available to families fall far short of the demand. This story was published with @the74.bsky.social:19thnews.orgEvictions impact millions of kids. These schools get an alert when it happens to their students.Tulsa is one of several cities trying to combat the chronic absenteeism and poor grades of students facing eviction. 01314
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Sparkman: We waited too long to teach children how the social-media world worked. With AI, we should teach the child before the technology does bit.ly/4jco9m4 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Aldeman: With vacation breaks, long weekends and religious holidays, 180 days of instruction in Fairfax County, Virginia, stretch out over 297 days. The same is happening in other districts bit.ly/4cUDX9k 010
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The biggest predictor of whether a child receives special education services should not be how effectively their parents can advocate. Yet for many families, that’s exactly how the system works bit.ly/4ApX9Gc 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Who steps in when parents need childcare beyond 9-to-5? The 74's latest series, After Hours, offers a glimpse into the essential programs helping families make it work beyond standard business hours www.the74million.org/series/after... 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 18/09/2026De Lucio: For many students, their ride to school is the first structured interaction of the day, and it sets the tone for everything that follows www.the74million.org/article/tran... 120
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Reading scores in Ohio improved in 2026 with all schools now using the science of reading, but key scores are still below two years ago bit.ly/4iAVl6C 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 17/09/2026District leaders are "getting inundated with sales pitches" and calls to "ban it all," says Emily Freitag — which is why her team spent 6 months watching real classroom #AI use instead of demos bit.ly/4y1thyf 010
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In a 74 exclusive, experts say the research is ‘valuable and timely,’ but has limitations bit.ly/470CMBH 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Campaign donations from private equity-owned applied behavior analysis companies seek to influence insurance law, put private therapists in classrooms www.the74million.org/article/as-s... 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 16/09/2026‘The kids are watching,’ says co-director Robert May, who hopes the five-part PBS miniseries will lead to greater respect among political rivals bit.ly/4rafqmo 001
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Parents facing eviction are “not thinking ‘What can a lawyer do for me?' or even ‘What can Tulsa Public Schools do for me?’” said Eric Hallett, a staff attorney at Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma bit.ly/4rg99FW 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Families persuaded the district to adopt the nation's first neurodiversity-affirming policy. But putting it into practice has been a challenge bit.ly/4xsV2yz 001
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Garg: AI-driven automatic speech recognition technology can listen to kids read, identify weaknesses, give feedback and make recommendations to teachers and parents bit.ly/4yzWJei 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Some schools will have to use state-approved math textbooks only with no consensus on what they should or shouldn’t include www.the74million.org/article/ohio... 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Meek & Williams: “The Trump administration’s English-only proposal is not only misaligned with science, law, and the administration’s own stated goals, it will also cost taxpayers,” an estimated $73M to $124M to implement bit.ly/3T3ZXrC 001
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Analysis of Medicaid data finds applied behavior analysis — an unproven, even dangerous therapy — turns huge profits for providers at kids' expense bit.ly/4hqBZjA 000
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 14/09/2026From California to Maine, extreme weather is disrupting student attendance and, ultimately, their achievement bit.ly/46lE9L7 001
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Freeland Fisher: Pilot program examined how AI tools can make it easier for young people to find, reach and rely on their broader human connections bit.ly/3VaKbM9 001
The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Some states are streamlining childcare regulations, but how those rules get interpreted and enforced will determine whether reform actually helps families bit.ly/3VaK9E1 000
