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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…

My deepest convictions about educational assessment were shaped outside the classroom with my late wife of seven decades, Dr. Susan Gordon M.D., a pediatrician. I watched her treat a diagnosis of medical status as a starting point for understanding, never an endpoint of judgment or mere classification. Closing charts of medical status data,  she wanted to know about a child’s wider functional ecology (sleep, home stressors, supports); the relations among data points and among these data points and what was happening in the life of the child, teaching me that consequential assessments don’t arrive in sterile score reports. They occur…

According to the agreement, full-time faculty members will receive a one-time $5,475 lump sum to make up for lost wages. Christian Martinez-Guzman The Portland Community College faculty union reached a tentative agreement with the college Tuesday, less than a week before spring semester classes begin on April 6, OPB reported. The agreement puts an end to a 20-day strike—the first in the college’s history—that the faculty union and the classified employees’ union began on March 11. The classified employees’ union ended its strike last Wednesday, but faculty and administrators remained at odds over compensation for missed pay during the strike.…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the University of Pennsylvania to turn over the personal contact information of employees affiliated with Jewish groups and organizations to the Trump administration as part of a federal antisemitism investigation. In July, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission subpoenaed the Ivy League institution for the information in order to investigate allegations of discrimination against Jewish employees at the university.  U.S. District Judge Gerald Pappert, an Obama appointee, said Penn must supply the federal agency…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Scaffolding new lessons and concepts onto students’ prior knowledge builds a sturdier foundation for learning. Approaches can include charts and concept maps tracking what students know or want to know, helping them see links among ideas, and basing lessons on their own experiences, teacher educators say. Before starting instruction on a subject-matter unit, teachers should analyze how students’ interests, passions and backgrounds could help to anchor their lessons, said Christopher Emdin, professor of science education at Columbia University Teachers College. “That becomes the…

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday morning in a birthright citizenship case that, if decided in the government’s favor, could render thousands more children undocumented — and stateless — at the same moment conservative forces are trying to undo those students’ right to a free public education. President Donald J. Trump, who watched from the gallery Wednesday in unprecedented fashion while the government made its case, signed an executive order on his first day back in office last year banning birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants. His plan would also exclude babies born here whose parents are temporary…

Louisiana is one step closer to broadening public records exemptions for its public universities. On Tuesday, the Louisiana Senate voted 36 to 2 to advance Senate Bill 289, which would shield universities from having to disclose application materials for top jobs, the names of donors and some research materials.  Supporters of the legislation, which now heads to the Louisiana House, say it’s designed in part to protect prospective applicants for executive positions at universities—including but not limited to presidents, chancellors, senior vice chancellors and athletic coaches—by keeping private all application records until finalists are named. However, the exemption continues for…