Dive Brief: A group of researchers sued the National Institutes of Health on Wednesday, arguing that the agency violated their First Amendment rights by targeting work focused on diversity, equity…
Being at Yale over the past two years gives me an interesting perch. From here I can watch the capitulation of a once-great institution in real time. It gives me…
In Huntsville, Alabama, home to one of the nation’s largest cybersecurity hubs, educators and industry professionals are rethinking what cybersecurity education can look like. Rather than separating classroom instruction from…
Every fall, millions of American parents and caregivers make extraordinary sacrifices to send a child to college. They work overtime, postpone retirement, take on debt or set aside other priorities…
Assessing Impacts One way to summarize these many details is to think in terms of a pair of experimental treatments. The first treatment is the change in performance measures for…
It seems many colleges and universities are treating AI as a threat to manage rather than a tool to embrace—but given the fast evolution of AI, higher ed must change….
Dive Brief: The Trump administration’s recent proposal to revoke the tax-exempt status of private nonprofit colleges over their diversity efforts could bring steep financial consequences for institutions, according to a…
Chinese researchers are returning home in growing numbers, motivated to leave the U.S. by a mix of push and pull factors, including a more hostile U.S. foreign policy and larger research budgets in…
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article has been updated to clarify language about educator response. The individualized education program (IEP) process generates a big stack of papers, full of terminology that parents…
by Shauna D. A. Knox, The Hechinger Report September 9, 2026 For 15 years, we let children carry cellphones into most of our classrooms. By the time states began ordering…