Stephen Sawchuk
@stephen-sawchuk.bsky.social
Assistant Managing Editor at Education Week, editing curriculum & instruction coverage. I make ugly pots.
AI and IEPs: whether a good idea or terrible idea, one thing's for sure: It's already happening everywhere, reports
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Teachers Are Using AI to Help Write IEPs. Advocates Have Concerns
Experts call for guardrails around the ethical, legal, and instructional concerns.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
AI and IEPs: whether a good idea or terrible idea, one thing's for sure: It's already happening everywhere, reports
@evieblad.bsky.social www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
@evieblad.bsky.social www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
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This is a really important issue, and my coworker @evieblad.bsky.social explains it perfectly:
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#EDUsky #EduSkyAI #edtech #AIineducation #SPED #SpecEd #SpecialEducation
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#EDUsky #EduSkyAI #edtech #AIineducation #SPED #SpecEd #SpecialEducation
Teachers Are Using AI to Help Write IEPs. Advocates Have Concerns
Experts call for guardrails around the ethical, legal, and instructional concerns.
www.edweek.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This is a really important issue, and my coworker @evieblad.bsky.social explains it perfectly:
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
#EDUsky #EduSkyAI #edtech #AIineducation #SPED #SpecEd #SpecialEducation
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
#EDUsky #EduSkyAI #edtech #AIineducation #SPED #SpecEd #SpecialEducation
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The newest and most ambitious of teacher pay experiments go beyond gauging performance based primarily on test scores to consider a teacher’s classroom practice, peer collaboration, and willingness to tackle high-need subjects, students, and communities.
States Are Experimenting With Teacher Pay Again—But the Focus Isn’t Just Test Scores
Renewed interest could spur another wave of experiments with teacher pay.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The newest and most ambitious of teacher pay experiments go beyond gauging performance based primarily on test scores to consider a teacher’s classroom practice, peer collaboration, and willingness to tackle high-need subjects, students, and communities.
Are text excerpts crowding out novels and whole texts in reading classrooms? Sarah Schwartz investigates for EdWeek:
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Are Books Really Disappearing From American Classrooms?
Measuring whether "whole texts" are vanishing in favor of excerpts isn't clear cut.
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October 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Are text excerpts crowding out novels and whole texts in reading classrooms? Sarah Schwartz investigates for EdWeek:
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EdWeek's Sarah Sparks looks at how teacher contracts are being reshaped by AI concerns. This is going to be a big challenge for most districts/unions in the future.
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AI Is Changing Teaching, But Few Labor Contracts Reflect It
Classroom educators are using artificial intelligence to help with their work, yet union agreements have not caught up.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
EdWeek's Sarah Sparks looks at how teacher contracts are being reshaped by AI concerns. This is going to be a big challenge for most districts/unions in the future.
www.edweek.org/technology/a...
www.edweek.org/technology/a...
Breaking news from @marklieberman.bsky.social on the $5 billion in impounded K-12 funding www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
Trump Abruptly Unfreezes All of the Education Funds He Had Withheld
More than $6.8 billion will flow in the coming days.
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July 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Breaking news from @marklieberman.bsky.social on the $5 billion in impounded K-12 funding www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
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New: The Trump administration says its education funding freeze is over.
Details we still don't have:
-WHEN the money will flow to states
-WHETHER a rescissions request will follow
-WHY the administration is releasing the $$
-HOW schools will recover from the chaos
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Details we still don't have:
-WHEN the money will flow to states
-WHETHER a rescissions request will follow
-WHY the administration is releasing the $$
-HOW schools will recover from the chaos
- www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
Trump Abruptly Unfreezes All of the Education Funds He Had Withheld
More than $6.8 billion will flow in the coming days.
www.edweek.org
July 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
New: The Trump administration says its education funding freeze is over.
Details we still don't have:
-WHEN the money will flow to states
-WHETHER a rescissions request will follow
-WHY the administration is releasing the $$
-HOW schools will recover from the chaos
- www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
Details we still don't have:
-WHEN the money will flow to states
-WHETHER a rescissions request will follow
-WHY the administration is releasing the $$
-HOW schools will recover from the chaos
- www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
One of the reasons I love EdWeek is that our staff is able to add our expertise & nuance to stories that other outlets turn into silly outrage fodder. Like this one from Sarah Sparks on the latest on the GOP and
@neatoday.bsky.social 's relationship www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
@neatoday.bsky.social 's relationship www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
GOP Renews Push to Revoke Federal Charter for Nation's Largest Teachers' Union
Lawmakers announce repeal bill amid conservative protests against National Education Association.
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July 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
One of the reasons I love EdWeek is that our staff is able to add our expertise & nuance to stories that other outlets turn into silly outrage fodder. Like this one from Sarah Sparks on the latest on the GOP and
@neatoday.bsky.social 's relationship www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
@neatoday.bsky.social 's relationship www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
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scoop: new Washington Post opinion editor Adam O'Neal introduces himself to staff, alluding to some significant changes afoot 🧵
July 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
scoop: new Washington Post opinion editor Adam O'Neal introduces himself to staff, alluding to some significant changes afoot 🧵
@alexgrieve.bsky.social It took me forever to find you on here! lol
May 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
@alexgrieve.bsky.social It took me forever to find you on here! lol
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I think @edweek.bsky.social , @chalkbeat.org and @edsource.org have been doing exceptional work covering Trump’s attacks on education, teachers, our students and their families
March 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I think @edweek.bsky.social , @chalkbeat.org and @edsource.org have been doing exceptional work covering Trump’s attacks on education, teachers, our students and their families
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If you are someone who does not know the history of Protestant Christianity in the U.S., this is a solid introduction.
Okay. Some demand for this so: an introduction to American Protestantism. This is not going to be a comprehensive guide of American Protestantism because I hope to leave you with the impression that such a thing would be huge and nearly impossible for anyone to do, let alone me.
January 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If you are someone who does not know the history of Protestant Christianity in the U.S., this is a solid introduction.
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Okay. Some demand for this so: an introduction to American Protestantism. This is not going to be a comprehensive guide of American Protestantism because I hope to leave you with the impression that such a thing would be huge and nearly impossible for anyone to do, let alone me.
January 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Okay. Some demand for this so: an introduction to American Protestantism. This is not going to be a comprehensive guide of American Protestantism because I hope to leave you with the impression that such a thing would be huge and nearly impossible for anyone to do, let alone me.
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Many #educators relied on Twitter for years to connect with peers and get ideas about curriculum, assessments, and teaching approaches. But critics say the platform has been on a down slope in recent years.
Enter Bluesky. Great story by @laurainegl.bsky.social www.edweek.org/leadership/i... #Edusky
Enter Bluesky. Great story by @laurainegl.bsky.social www.edweek.org/leadership/i... #Edusky
Is Bluesky the New Twitter for Teachers?
Educators are trying out social media app Bluesky for building and maintaining their professional learning networks.
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December 19, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Many #educators relied on Twitter for years to connect with peers and get ideas about curriculum, assessments, and teaching approaches. But critics say the platform has been on a down slope in recent years.
Enter Bluesky. Great story by @laurainegl.bsky.social www.edweek.org/leadership/i... #Edusky
Enter Bluesky. Great story by @laurainegl.bsky.social www.edweek.org/leadership/i... #Edusky
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Republicans lambasted Michelle Obama's school lunch improvement efforts. Now RFK Jr. wans to make American healthy again. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
Will RFK Jr. Reheat the School Lunch Wars?
Trump's ally has said he wants to remove processed foods from school meals. That's not as easy as it sounds.
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December 18, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Republicans lambasted Michelle Obama's school lunch improvement efforts. Now RFK Jr. wans to make American healthy again. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
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There are some good adaptations of the Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol, and many bad ones, but only one truly great version, and it is the 1984 made-for-television movie starring George C. Scott.
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The Most Unsettling ‘Christmas Carol’
Why my father and I loved George C. Scott
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December 17, 2024 at 4:57 PM
There are some good adaptations of the Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol, and many bad ones, but only one truly great version, and it is the 1984 made-for-television movie starring George C. Scott.
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I wrote very briefly about the rarity of female school shooters a while back. www.edweek.org/leadership/s...
December 17, 2024 at 3:38 PM
I wrote very briefly about the rarity of female school shooters a while back. www.edweek.org/leadership/s...
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You know what used to be fun? Calling organizations and agencies on the phone. You say who you are and what you are up to and more often than not the other person on the call would say, 'Oh, you need to speak to this person. In case you get cut off, here is their direct number.'
December 10, 2024 at 8:14 PM
You know what used to be fun? Calling organizations and agencies on the phone. You say who you are and what you are up to and more often than not the other person on the call would say, 'Oh, you need to speak to this person. In case you get cut off, here is their direct number.'
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“We are asking rural folks to accept a set of options that folks in cities and suburbs would never accept...“It’s almost like, well, ‘This is what you get to learn, and this is how you get to learn it. And if you don’t like it, you can move.’ ”
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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors - The Hechinger Report
Rural Americans already have less access to higher education than people in cities and suburbs. Now the comparatively few universities serving rural students are cutting large numbers of programs and ...
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November 26, 2024 at 1:47 PM
“We are asking rural folks to accept a set of options that folks in cities and suburbs would never accept...“It’s almost like, well, ‘This is what you get to learn, and this is how you get to learn it. And if you don’t like it, you can move.’ ”
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A record 86% of high schoolers earned a diploma in 4 yrs in 2022 -- up from 79% in 2011. High grad rates coexisting with high rates of absenteeism. @edweek.bsky.social www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Graduation Rates Might Get Worse Before They Get Better
Schools must make a convincing case for why students should show up, Robert Balfanz says.
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December 3, 2024 at 4:03 PM
A record 86% of high schoolers earned a diploma in 4 yrs in 2022 -- up from 79% in 2011. High grad rates coexisting with high rates of absenteeism. @edweek.bsky.social www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
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A novel suit alleges literacy curricula based on the research of Calkins and Fountas and Pinnell were sold using deceptive and fraudulent marketing that inaccurately labeled them as research-based while ignoring a consensus on the need for explicit phonics instruction. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Parents Sue Lucy Calkins, Fountas and Pinnell, and Others Over Reading Curricula
A first-of-its-kind lawsuit targets creators of whole-language reading curricula.
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December 4, 2024 at 9:54 PM
A novel suit alleges literacy curricula based on the research of Calkins and Fountas and Pinnell were sold using deceptive and fraudulent marketing that inaccurately labeled them as research-based while ignoring a consensus on the need for explicit phonics instruction. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
@evieblad.bsky.social covers the latest salvo in the reading wars. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Parents Sue Lucy Calkins, Fountas and Pinnell, and Others Over Reading Curricula
A first-of-its-kind lawsuit targets creators of whole-language reading curricula.
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December 5, 2024 at 2:32 AM
@evieblad.bsky.social covers the latest salvo in the reading wars. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
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Trump has vowed to undo protections for LGBTQ+ plus students, and legal experts say his incoming administration has learned from his first time in office, when it tried to reverse certain policies of Obama's.
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The Uncertainty Ahead for Title IX and Transgender Students in Trump's New Term
Trump may not be able to withdraw the Title IX rule on "Day 1," but advocates on both sides expect it to go away.
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November 22, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Trump has vowed to undo protections for LGBTQ+ plus students, and legal experts say his incoming administration has learned from his first time in office, when it tried to reverse certain policies of Obama's.
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www.edweek.org/policy-polit... #education #politics
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What Percentage of a State's Primary and Secondary Education Revenue Comes from the US Department of Education?
Great data viz from James Murphy www.datawrapper.de/_/skaST/
Great data viz from James Murphy www.datawrapper.de/_/skaST/
What Percentage of a State's Primary and Secondary Education Revenue Comes from the US Department of Education | Created with Datawrapper
Red dots represent states where Trump won the majority of the electorate, and blue dots where Harris did.
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November 21, 2024 at 12:06 PM
What Percentage of a State's Primary and Secondary Education Revenue Comes from the US Department of Education?
Great data viz from James Murphy www.datawrapper.de/_/skaST/
Great data viz from James Murphy www.datawrapper.de/_/skaST/