Category Eagle Report

UC professors want SAT/ACT requirements back. Here's what the data suggests, what went wrong with test-optional, and how families should prepare now.

Federal grant formulas are changing after budget deadlines pass. Poor districts can't absorb the hit. Here's who loses, what gets cut, and what to ask your school board now.

States are funding teacher pipelines AND skilled trades programs simultaneously. Nobody's checking if they're fighting over the same Gen Z students. Eagle maps the collision.

Some states are treating school withdrawal like a child welfare emergency. The legal machinery is real, the chilling effect is intentional, and enrollment dollars explain a lot. Here's what every family needs to know before pulling their student.

Three states are posting historically low dropout rates and nobody is asking the right question: what exactly did they do? Eagle audits the mechanics, the demographic breakdowns, and whether any of it is actually replicable.

Video games went from classroom experiment to mainstream STEAM tool without anyone agreeing on how to measure whether they work. Schools are scaling fast, evidence is thin, and parents have no framework to tell smart implementation from expensive babysitting.

Homeschooling enrollment exploded after 2020, but the more revealing story is who sticks with it and why. This isn't ideology versus ideology, it's a data-informed look at what actually predicts homeschool success, and what sends families back to traditional schools.

Schools are selling phone bans as a mental-health solution. The research calls that a stretch, and the students who lose the most are the ones who could least afford to. Before your district flips the switch, read this.

Iowa handed out $258 million in education savings accounts and collected almost no data on whether students learned more, graduated faster, or improved at all. The scandal isn't the spending. It's the silence where the evidence should be.