Up to $10,000 offered to aspiring teachers to fill shortages in Colorado

WSJ
Gen Z workers are expected to outnumber baby boomers in the U.S. workforce this year. If only their bosses could understand them.

AXIOS
About a third of U.S. K-12 students this school year are behind grade level, according to a recent survey.

Boston Globe 
Christopher Heffaker’s article “Mass. student enrollment nearly static” details trends in the three major systems of education in Massachusetts and points out that two of the three — traditional public schools and private and parochial schools — are in deep decline, rapidly losing population.

Fordham
High-quality studies find that charter schools boost achievement by more than their traditional-public-school counterparts—an advantage that is particularly large for students of color in disadvantaged urban communities, and one that has only grown larger as the charter sector has expanded and matured.

Fordham
It’s widely acknowledged that a bit of healthy competition is a good thing in most contexts. Among other things, it pushes businesses to create better products and athletes and musicians to train longer and harder. But what about in education?

Fordham
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Starlee Coleman, newly named President and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, joins Mike and David to discuss how the charter sector can find success with a Trump or Harris presidency.