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Listen to the article 12 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. As institutional budgets come under pressure nationwide, many college leaders are seeking answers to a deceptively simple question: What are the costs and benefits of running their academic programs? The question is straightforward, but the answer is often complex, subjective and fraught with human and educational consequences for every given program. It becomes even more fraught when leaders use those financial metrics to make decisions about which programs to keep or kill in these times of budget constraints. Whether officials use the…

Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. As artificial intelligence tools continue to rapidly evolve, some K-12 leaders say it’s time to switch up districts’ approach to their adoption and implementation.  Unlike how districts commonly procured ed tech in the past, decisions on AI tools need to be reevaluated over time, said Julia Rafal-Baer, CEO of ILO Group, an education strategy and policy firm, and education consultant.  “It’s an ongoing leadership practice, which means leaders must now know if they have the governance structures and the organizational capacity to…

As long as there have been adult learners, community colleges have served as the ideal front door for them to return to postsecondary learning. Whether these adults stepped away from school to raise a family, serve in the military or start a career, they could count on community colleges as a low-stakes and affordable way to step back into a learning environment. Many of these adults returning to school are coming with years of knowledge, skills and competencies earned through their work and life experiences: The veteran who managed logistics for a combat unit. The health-care worker who has been…

Danny Freeman, CNN A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the University of Pennsylvania to comply with a subpoena from the EEOC seeking a list of members of its Jewish community in what the…

When Accommodations Exist but Access Doesn’t: A Middle School Reality Check  contributed by Pramod Polimari, middle school special education strategist In middle school classrooms across the country, accommodations are in place.  IEPs are written.  Support plans are documented.  Students are technically “included.”  And yet, many students still struggle to access learning in meaningful ways.  This disconnect—where accommodations exist on paper but access breaks down in practice—is one of the most common and least discussed challenges in middle school education. It’s rarely the result of negligence or lack of care. More often, it emerges from well-intentioned assumptions about independence, readiness, and…

John A. Gentry, Minding The Campus Trump is losing the campus DEI battle. States must step in.

The encrypted messaging app Signal is back in the news — and this time, people are asking: Will using it get me arrested?

Madeline Mitchell, USA Today Parents of neurodivergent children or children with disabilities often face a long road to proper diagnosis, and even longer wait times to finding the right…

In March, juries in California and New Mexico delivered seminal verdicts holding Meta and YouTube liable for failing to protect young users from harm. Both verdicts found that the companies were negligent in the design or operation of their platforms and that each company knew their platforms could be dangerous when used by a minor. The courts found that the design elements of the platforms could be separated from the content hosted on the platforms, thus removing the need to consider the First Amendment or Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Joining us to break down the rulings and…

Vague. Undefined. Overbroad. Burdensome. Legally contested. That’s how major higher ed groups are describing the Trump administration’s latest effort to crack down on what it considers diversity, equity and inclusion by requiring colleges and universities to sign a pledge that they will comply with “executive orders prohibiting unlawful discrimination on the basis of race or color” to receive federal funds. The proposed pledge warns that race-based scholarships, hiring preferences, diversity statements and more may constitute illegal discrimination, in the government’s opinion. The General Services Administration’s proposed certification requirements would also ban aiding “illegal aliens” or facilitating “terrorism,” using wording that…