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Phone bans in schools, early evidence on impacts
A large study examining school cellphone bans found results that are mixed: the policies appear to reduce students’ access to devices, but early measures have not shown improvements in student...
English learner math: language-aware curriculum redesign
Two secondary schools are showing different routes to help English learners succeed in math by treating language development as part of math instruction. At Annandale High School in Virginia, a...
Fractions instruction and the math pipeline break
A growing body of evidence points to fractions as a major bottleneck in early math learning, threatening progress into middle and high school math. EdWeek Research Center survey results show...
Targeted intervention for older students’ math numeracy gaps
Teachers say older students’ numeracy and basic operation gaps are increasingly undermining motivation and slowing progress in middle and high school math, especially when deficits were never...
AI data governance and agency security in higher ed ecosystems
A new report on Anthropic’s Mythos preview describes how advanced agentic AI capabilities exposed long-standing software flaws and elevated corporate governance and security expectations. The...
U.S. rule limiting federal aid for low-earning college programs
The Department of Education’s proposed earnings-test rule would cut off federal student loan access—and potentially Pell Grants—for postsecondary programs whose graduates do not meet benchmark...
Campus climate and governance: Cornell president incident amid Israel-Palestine debate protests
Cornell University leadership faced immediate campus climate questions after President Michael Kotlikoff reported an incident involving protesters following an Israel-Palestine debate on campus....
Federal action to cut federal aid for low-earning programs
The U.S. Department of Education proposed a new rule that would restrict federal student loan access—and in some cases Pell Grants—for college programs whose graduates’ earnings do not meet...
Mass job displacement risk draws new legal limits on AI layoffs in China
A Chinese court ruled that firms cannot terminate workers solely to replace them with artificial intelligence systems, rejecting AI-driven staffing reductions as an automatic legal basis for...
College affordability pressures deepen as housing and childcare shortages collide
New reporting highlights a compounding affordability crisis for U.S. families: a housing shortage of roughly 4 million units alongside an estimated 4.2 million gap in childcare slots. The pairing...
U.S. renters seek federal damages after CDC eviction moratorium litigation advances to settlements
Landlords who challenged the federal CDC eviction moratorium are in settlement discussions with the U.S. Department of Justice, after winning an appeal over the policy’s constitutional footing....
AI hiring and workforce narrative clash – Sam Altman flags “AI washing” in layoffs
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC-TV18 that some employers attribute layoffs to AI’s labor effects even when the job cuts would have occurred regardless, describing the practice as “AI washing.”...
Research and governance demands rise as agentic AI security risks become a corporate priority
A new account of Anthropic’s Claude “Mythos Preview” describes how agentic AI capability is colliding with cybersecurity and corporate governance risk. The coverage says Anthropic identified...
Campus climate escalates into a vehicle confrontation at Cornell
Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff said he was the victim of harassment and intimidation after an incident in which he struck two people with his car following an Israel-Palestine...
Leadership transition at Bard College amid Epstein-ties review
Bard College president Leon Botstein announced he will retire at the end of June after an independent review found he “minimized” his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein....
Student success risk: exam stress management and AI guidance for learning support
An exam-season survival guide focused on learners’ study methods, organization, and stress management emphasizes practical revision systems such as traffic-light self-assessment, peer explanation...
Cyber and compliance attention grows as AI models demand better governance and data quality
A new analysis argues that AI models are increasingly “choking on junk data,” warning that the next phase of AI—physical AI and world models—requires high-quality, richly structured data rather...
Federal student aid tightened via earnings outcomes tests
The U.S. Department of Education proposed a rule that would cut off federal student loan access for higher-earning undergraduates and graduates from programs that fail new earnings benchmarks tied...
Graduate education loan caps tighten, excluding education from “professional” category
The Department of Education finalized a regulation affecting federal graduate student loans, narrowing the definition of which fields qualify as “professional” graduate degrees eligible for higher...
New AI data and labor protections tested in court
A Chinese court ruled that companies can’t end employment solely because AI systems automate a worker’s role, citing illegal termination grounds in a case involving demotion and a pay cut after an...