Education and Work
@educationwork.newamerica.org
Every child in every community deserves access to the education and workforce training needed to achieve a future without limits.
In this program at New America, we develop the ideas and communicate the policy changes needed to make it possible.
In this program at New America, we develop the ideas and communicate the policy changes needed to make it possible.
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Millions of adults have some college but no credential. How can we bring them back?
Here, our #CommunityCollege policy team breaks down what it really takes to re-engage adult learners: flexible policies, targeted outreach, and real support.
💡 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Here, our #CommunityCollege policy team breaks down what it really takes to re-engage adult learners: flexible policies, targeted outreach, and real support.
💡 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
"We are concerned special education will cease to exist."
The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools. n.pr/48udkF5
50 years after the birth of special education, some fear for its future under Trump
The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools.
n.pr
December 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"We are concerned special education will cease to exist."
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A lot has happened this year. If you'd like a recap of what's happened to education research and statistics, here's my attempt. This might be a good one to listen to on your commute today. (Audio play button below headline. 16 minutes long.) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year
Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack
hechingerreport.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
A lot has happened this year. If you'd like a recap of what's happened to education research and statistics, here's my attempt. This might be a good one to listen to on your commute today. (Audio play button below headline. 16 minutes long.) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
Millions of adults have some college but no credential. How can we bring them back?
Here, our #CommunityCollege policy team breaks down what it really takes to re-engage adult learners: flexible policies, targeted outreach, and real support.
💡 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Here, our #CommunityCollege policy team breaks down what it really takes to re-engage adult learners: flexible policies, targeted outreach, and real support.
💡 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
December 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Millions of adults have some college but no credential. How can we bring them back?
Here, our #CommunityCollege policy team breaks down what it really takes to re-engage adult learners: flexible policies, targeted outreach, and real support.
💡 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Here, our #CommunityCollege policy team breaks down what it really takes to re-engage adult learners: flexible policies, targeted outreach, and real support.
💡 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
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I'm trying speak with students, parents, educators, and education advocates in (or connected to) these school districts about their experiences for a follow-up to www.newamerica.org/education-po.... Any ideas for me? Second-degree connectors also appreciated!
December 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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1/ Northwestern is the 4th university after Columbia, Brown, and Cornell to sign an agreement allowing the Trump administration to "analyze" or "audit" their admissions data--on the administration's terms. As I wrote in The Atlantic in October, this is a trap.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Logical End Point of Trump’s Higher-Education Agenda
A “compact” offered by the administration could devastate racial diversity at elite universities.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
1/ Northwestern is the 4th university after Columbia, Brown, and Cornell to sign an agreement allowing the Trump administration to "analyze" or "audit" their admissions data--on the administration's terms. As I wrote in The Atlantic in October, this is a trap.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Trump’s tax and spending law set loan limits on graduate programs based on whether they are “professional.” The Education Department didn’t categorize nursing graduate programs as “professional,” so those students may face borrowing limits.
Were nurses ‘demoted’ from professional degrees? Not exactly
Trump’s tax and spending law set loan limits on graduate programs based on whether they are “professional.” The Education Department didn’t categorize nursing graduate programs as “professional,” so…
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Trump’s tax and spending law set loan limits on graduate programs based on whether they are “professional.” The Education Department didn’t categorize nursing graduate programs as “professional,” so those students may face borrowing limits.
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Upcoming at New America
📅 12/1 Why Implementation Matters: Ensuring Quality in the New Workforce Pell Program
📅 12/4 Evictions in the District of Columbia: A Panel Discussion on New Data Analysis
📅 https://go.newamerica.org/new-america-events-5 #NewAmericaEvents
📅 12/1 Why Implementation Matters: Ensuring Quality in the New Workforce Pell Program
📅 12/4 Evictions in the District of Columbia: A Panel Discussion on New Data Analysis
📅 https://go.newamerica.org/new-america-events-5 #NewAmericaEvents
November 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Upcoming at New America
📅 12/1 Why Implementation Matters: Ensuring Quality in the New Workforce Pell Program
📅 12/4 Evictions in the District of Columbia: A Panel Discussion on New Data Analysis
📅 https://go.newamerica.org/new-america-events-5 #NewAmericaEvents
📅 12/1 Why Implementation Matters: Ensuring Quality in the New Workforce Pell Program
📅 12/4 Evictions in the District of Columbia: A Panel Discussion on New Data Analysis
📅 https://go.newamerica.org/new-america-events-5 #NewAmericaEvents
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State and district leaders predict further complications when the Labor Department starts managing $28 billion in K-12 funds. @lrj417.bsky.social reports
With Crossed Wires and Late Funding, Some Call Ed Move to Labor a ‘Muddle’
State and district leaders predict further complications when the Labor Department starts managing $28 billion in K-12 funds.
www.the74million.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
State and district leaders predict further complications when the Labor Department starts managing $28 billion in K-12 funds. @lrj417.bsky.social reports
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Indiana May Reject New Degrees That Don’t Commit to “Values of American Society” https://bit.ly/4ohT3sf
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Indiana May Reject New Degrees That Don’t Commit to “Values of American Society” https://bit.ly/4ohT3sf
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
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The Widespread Effects of Immigration Enforcement on Schools, in Charts: Educators working with immigrant families report student anxiety and absences in a new national survey.
The Widespread Effects of Immigration Enforcement on Schools, in Charts
Educators working with immigrant families report student anxiety and absences in a new national survey.
www.edweek.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Too many kids skip pre-K. Baltimore hopes $500,000 will change that.
Baltimore City is using $500,000 to get more kids into pre-K
Vacant Baltimore City properties could soon be repurposed for child care.
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Too many kids skip pre-K. Baltimore hopes $500,000 will change that.
📢 Local leaders, listen up!!
Next year, our policy teams will launch a new effort to strengthen connections across schools, libraries, museums, youth programs, and other community learning spaces.
Is your organization doing this work? Interested in sharing and scaling with others?? Let's talk!
Next year, our policy teams will launch a new effort to strengthen connections across schools, libraries, museums, youth programs, and other community learning spaces.
Is your organization doing this work? Interested in sharing and scaling with others?? Let's talk!
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
📢 Local leaders, listen up!!
Next year, our policy teams will launch a new effort to strengthen connections across schools, libraries, museums, youth programs, and other community learning spaces.
Is your organization doing this work? Interested in sharing and scaling with others?? Let's talk!
Next year, our policy teams will launch a new effort to strengthen connections across schools, libraries, museums, youth programs, and other community learning spaces.
Is your organization doing this work? Interested in sharing and scaling with others?? Let's talk!
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Fragmented Federal Education Plan Could Harm Students With Disabilities, Advocates Warn: Parceling out Ed. Dept. work to other agencies risks weakening enforcement of disability rights laws, groups warn.
Fragmented Federal Education Plan Could Harm Students With Disabilities, Advocates Warn
Parceling out Ed. Dept. work to other agencies risks weakening enforcement of disability rights laws, groups warn.
www.edweek.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Fragmented Federal Education Plan Could Harm Students With Disabilities, Advocates Warn: Parceling out Ed. Dept. work to other agencies risks weakening enforcement of disability rights laws, groups warn.
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Opinion: Downgrading education is a disastrous misreading of what our country needs
Downgrading Education Is a Disastrous Misreading of What Our Country Needs
Guernsey: Amid demands to improve reading and integrate AI, do we really want to be a country without a Department of Education in the 21st century?
www.the74million.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Opinion: Downgrading education is a disastrous misreading of what our country needs
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"It’s like paying a contractor double to mow your lawn and then claiming you’ve cut the home maintenance budget. It makes no sense." - @kevincarey1.bsky.social @newamerica.org www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Dismantling the Department of Education: Wasteful, Wrong, and Illegal
The Trump administration’s latest attempt to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education is lawless, wasteful, and bad for students.
www.newamerica.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
"It’s like paying a contractor double to mow your lawn and then claiming you’ve cut the home maintenance budget. It makes no sense." - @kevincarey1.bsky.social @newamerica.org www.newamerica.org/education-po...
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Department of Education cuts threaten special education for 7.5 million students. Less federal oversight means states will have uneven services, some robust, others nonexistent. Progress from the 1970s ADA could revert. https://bit.ly/4a1RT0q
Special Education Services At Risk Under Department of Education Cuts - EdSurge News
Department of Education cuts leave advocates and parents worried about the fate of special education services.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Department of Education cuts threaten special education for 7.5 million students. Less federal oversight means states will have uneven services, some robust, others nonexistent. Progress from the 1970s ADA could revert. https://bit.ly/4a1RT0q
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Impt read from @lisaguernsey.bsky.social at @educationwork.newamerica.org. "In this vision of dismemberment, the word 'education' is scrubbed from any U.S.-led effort to improve our country. The concept of teaching and learning is not important enough to garner federal attention anymore."
Downgrading Education Is a Disastrous Misreading of What Our Country Needs
Guernsey: Amid demands to improve reading and integrate AI, do we really want to be a country without a Department of Education in the 21st century?
www.the74million.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Impt read from @lisaguernsey.bsky.social at @educationwork.newamerica.org. "In this vision of dismemberment, the word 'education' is scrubbed from any U.S.-led effort to improve our country. The concept of teaching and learning is not important enough to garner federal attention anymore."
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Putting K-12 and PreK-12 programs into the Department of Labor makes no sense. Why in the world would we put people with labor expertise but no educational background in charge of funding programs for kindergartners and little kids? www.the74million.org/article/down...
Downgrading Education Is a Disastrous Misreading of What Our Country Needs
Guernsey: Amid demands to improve reading and integrate AI, do we really want to be a country without a Department of Education in the 21st century?
www.the74million.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Putting K-12 and PreK-12 programs into the Department of Labor makes no sense. Why in the world would we put people with labor expertise but no educational background in charge of funding programs for kindergartners and little kids? www.the74million.org/article/down...
"The time has passed when the federal government can afford to give second-level, part-time attention to its responsibilities in education."
In a recent episode of Democracy Deciphered, @zahavastadler.bsky.social and @jbeowulf.bsky.social of @educationwork.newamerica.org break down the history, politics, and future of America’s education system.
🎧 Listen now: https://go.newamerica.org/democracy-deciphered-ep-17-5
🎧 Listen now: https://go.newamerica.org/democracy-deciphered-ep-17-5
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"The time has passed when the federal government can afford to give second-level, part-time attention to its responsibilities in education."
"It’s like paying a contractor double to mow your lawn and then claiming you’ve cut the home maintenance budget. It makes no sense."
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ICYMI: The Trump administration is moving core U.S. Department of Education offices into other agencies—effectively erasing the agency that serves students.
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ICYMI: The Trump administration is moving core U.S. Department of Education offices into other agencies—effectively erasing the agency that serves students.
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"It’s like paying a contractor double to mow your lawn and then claiming you’ve cut the home maintenance budget. It makes no sense."
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ICYMI: The Trump administration is moving core U.S. Department of Education offices into other agencies—effectively erasing the agency that serves students.
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ICYMI: The Trump administration is moving core U.S. Department of Education offices into other agencies—effectively erasing the agency that serves students.
📢 "lawless, wasteful, and bad for students" 📢
My statement on McMahon's plan to dismember the U.S. Department of Education.
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
📢 "lawless, wasteful, and bad for students" 📢
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This week, join our #YouthApprenticeship team for a lunch symposium with the #PAYA Youth Council—a dynamic group of current and former youth #apprentices from around the country.
🗓 TOMORROW
🕦 11:30am
📍 Washington, DC
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🗓 TOMORROW
🕦 11:30am
📍 Washington, DC
🔗 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🔔 STARTING SOON 🔔
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Today at New America
📅 11/18 @ 11 am ET | A CivicSpace Conversation on Rural-Urban Powerbuilding
📅 11/18 @ 11:30 am ET | PAYA Youth Council Lunch Symposium
📅 https://go.newamerica.org/new-america-events-5 #NewAmericaEvents
📅 11/18 @ 11 am ET | A CivicSpace Conversation on Rural-Urban Powerbuilding
📅 11/18 @ 11:30 am ET | PAYA Youth Council Lunch Symposium
📅 https://go.newamerica.org/new-america-events-5 #NewAmericaEvents
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Today at New America
📅 11/18 @ 11 am ET | A CivicSpace Conversation on Rural-Urban Powerbuilding
📅 11/18 @ 11:30 am ET | PAYA Youth Council Lunch Symposium
📅 https://go.newamerica.org/new-america-events-5 #NewAmericaEvents
📅 11/18 @ 11 am ET | A CivicSpace Conversation on Rural-Urban Powerbuilding
📅 11/18 @ 11:30 am ET | PAYA Youth Council Lunch Symposium
📅 https://go.newamerica.org/new-america-events-5 #NewAmericaEvents
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Exclusive: The Education Department plans to move multiple parts of the agency to other federal departments, an unprecedented effort to dismantle an agency created by Congress to ensure all Americans have equal access to educational opportunity.
Trump administration to announce dismantling of much of Education Dept.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March seeking to close the department, but only Congress has the power to do that.
wapo.st
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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This week, join our #YouthApprenticeship team for a lunch symposium with the #PAYA Youth Council—a dynamic group of current and former youth #apprentices from around the country.
🗓 TOMORROW
🕦 11:30am
📍 Washington, DC
🔗 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
🗓 TOMORROW
🕦 11:30am
📍 Washington, DC
🔗 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This week, join our #YouthApprenticeship team for a lunch symposium with the #PAYA Youth Council—a dynamic group of current and former youth #apprentices from around the country.
🗓 TOMORROW
🕦 11:30am
📍 Washington, DC
🔗 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
🗓 TOMORROW
🕦 11:30am
📍 Washington, DC
🔗 www.newamerica.org/education-po...