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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · 14d

Chronic Absenteeism Still a Struggle in 2024–2025: Selected Findings from the American School District Panel and the American Youth Panel www.rand.org/pubs/researc... via @RANDCorporation

Chronic Absenteeism Is Still a Struggle

It remains unclear why, but several years after the COVID-19 pandemic chronic absenteeism is still a problem. In roughly half of urban school districts, more than 30 percent of students were chronical...

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · 15d

The Power of Asking ‘How?’ behavioralscientist.org/the-power-of... via @behscientist

The Power of Asking ‘How?’ - by Rene Almeling - Behavioral Scientist

Humans love to ask, “Why?” But when it comes to our behavior, it can often be more productive and compelling to ask, “How?”

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · 29d

23 books that shaped you in high school : NPR www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...

What books shaped you in high school? Here's what you said

More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that inspired you to become English majors, librarians, writers and teachers.

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · Sep 2

Every Team Needs a Super-Facilitator hbr.org/2025/09/ever...

Every Team Needs a Super-Facilitator

Most of us have met super-facilitators —people with a talent for bringing individual group members together, combining each one’s unique strengths to promote optimal team performance. Super-facilitato...

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NPR @npr.org · Aug 29

Parents are struggling to figure out what to say to their children after another school shooting. We talked to some experts, who offered these guidelines.

Talking to kids about school shootings. Be truthful and follow their lead

Parents are struggling to figure out what to say to their children after another school shooting. We talked to some experts, who offered these guidelines.

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good - "...lower-SES teens are spending two hours more a day on their devices than their more-affluent peers, resulting in less-developed working memories, processing speed, attention levels, language skills, and executive function." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...

Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · Aug 11

✍️ New article: “$3 a day: A new poverty line has shifted the World Bank’s data on extreme poverty. What changed, and why?” 🧵

A line chart showing the global number of people living in extreme poverty. Extreme poverty is defined as living below the International Poverty Line (IPL), which is $2.15 per day in 2017 prices (shown as a red line on the chart) and $3 per day in 2021 prices (shown as a blue line).

125 million people who would not have been counted as extremely poor before June 2025 (when the IPL was raised to $3 per day) are now included.

This data is adjusted for inflation and for differences in living costs between countries. The data source is the World Bank (2024 and 2025). The chart is CC BY Our World in Data.

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · Aug 5

Both parents and teens see social media as the top threat to teen mental health, but teens cite bullying and pressure more often. www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-the-... via @visualcap

Charted: The Biggest Threats to Teens’ Mental Health

Both parents and teens see social media as the top threat to teen mental health.

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · Aug 5

Back to School With AI, Year Three
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Back to School With AI, Year Three

Let's try leading with questions we can explore ourselves, not with someone else's answers

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · Jul 29

Quality Check: The New, Best Way to Measure School Performance www.future-ed.org/quality-chec...

Quality Check: The New, Best Way to Measure School Performance

This report presents a new model for measuring school performance, grounded in what research shows matters most for learning.

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Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · Jun 26

Do you want to live a long and healthy life but walking 10,000 steps a day feels too hard? In this Weekly Chart, our designer Alex takes a closer look at the data behind this number. 🔍 Will he convince you to go for a walk? 🚶 🍃

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The most important steps to a longer life | Datawrapper Blog

We should aim to walk around 10,000 steps per day to live a healthier and longer life. While this sounds like a logical thing to do — we humans were built to move, not to sit all day — we always…

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · Jun 24

How schools can get teens to read more full-length books fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...

How schools can get teens to read more full-length books

In an earlier post, I explained why high school teachers need more support to increase reading assignment length. So how might district and school leaders provide this support? Here are four suggestio...

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · Jun 17

7 Research-Backed Tech Tips You Can Use Today
www.edutopia.org/article/7-re...

7 Research-Backed Tech Tips You Can Use Today

From AI tutors that actually work to a simple trick for beating back digital distractions.

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · Jun 10

Building Our AI Capacity: A Playlist for Educators
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Building Our AI Capacity: A Playlist for Educators

Some suggested resources and activities

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NPR @npr.org · Jun 6

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.

A surprise find in Michigan shows the extent of ancient Native American agriculture

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.

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Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · Jun 5

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Datawrapper Webinars: Get the most out of our tool

Attend one of our webinars to quickly learn how to create the best charts, maps, and tables with Datawrapper.

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · Jun 3

Why Boys Are Behind in School From the Start www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/u...

Why Boys Are Behind in School From the Start

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Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · May 27

❤️‍🩹 How is everyone feeling? Where are far-right politics gaining traction? How many more ways of self-sabotage is the Trump administration going to discover?
📨 All this and more in our latest Data Vis Dispatch!

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A flow diagram illustrating shares of U.S. citizens on Medicaid, splitting them into categories such as age and working status. Published by The New York Times.

A map of the United States showing weather forecasting office vacancy rates across hurricane warning areas, making dangerous staff cuts visible. Published by The Wall Street Journal.

Two bar charts showing the age distribution of mental health related disease burden. They show that more than half of the primary burden is attributed to people under the age of 40, while over half non-mental-health burden is present in those older than 60. Published by McKinsey & Company.

Multiple stacked bar charts showing the shares of different political orientations by corresponding party votes since the 1980s across a selection of European countries. A recent rise in far-right votes can be observed in almost all of them. Published by elDiario.es.

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · May 14

"How College and Career Readiness Can Help Address Chronic Absenteeism" tinyurl.com/4b3b95xm

How College and Career Readiness Can Help Address Chronic Absenteeism

When students are disengaged, their attendance often suffers, which is why it’s critical to help students see the connection between school and their future.

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · May 12

Evidence-Based Practices for Algebra 1 Access, Placement, and Success edresearchforaction.org/research-bri...

Evidence-Based Practices for Algebra 1 Access, Placement, and Success - EdResearch for Action

This research brief focuses on school- and district-level policy decisions that shape Algebra I pathways and outcomes, such as when students take the course, how they’re placed, and what supports prom...

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · May 1

1 in 4 Students Are Chronically Absent. 3 Tools to Change That www.edweek.org/leadership/1...

1 in 4 Students Are Chronically Absent. 3 Tools to Change That

Chronic absenteeism is a daunting problem. But district leaders aren't alone in facing it, and there are ways they can fight it.

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · Apr 29

Neuroscience Says Music Is an Emotion Regulation Machine. Here’s What to Play for Happiness, Productivity, or Deep Thinking www.inc.com/jessica-stil...

Neuroscience Says Music Is an Emotion Regulation Machine. Here’s What to Play for Happiness, Productivity, or Deep Thinking

Neuroscience shows music has big effects on our productivity, performance, and state of mind. Use that to your advantage.

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · Apr 15

Top 5 Worst Pieces of Feedback Given to Educators jolein.substack.com/p/top-5-wors...

Top 5 Worst Pieces of Feedback Given to Educators

And what to say instead

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · Apr 9

"willingness of admin to target schools serving low-income students for noncompliance w/ its interpretation of fed civil rights, illustrates commitment to returning Am edu to time before Civil Rights Act, when nation’s vulnerable students were largely unprotected" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/o...

Opinion | The Gutting of K-12 Education Is Trump’s First Undeniable Victory

The administration has done everything in its power, and some things beyond its authority, to ensure education is equal no more.

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Kirk Weber @kirkweber.bsky.social · Apr 8

Effect of an Instructional Program in Foundational Reading Skills on Early Literacy Development of Students in Kindergarten and First Grade - Lane - 2025 - Reading Research Quarterly - Wiley Online Library ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library

This research project investigated the effects of UFLI Foundations, a foundational reading skills instructional program, on early literary development with kindergarten and first grade students with ...

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