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If you are in the knowledge-work class—and I suppose I am, though, being self-employed, I don’t often think that way—you are hearing about the miracles of Claude Code and Claude Cowork. Just this week my fellow longtime IHE contributor Joshua Kim buried what I found was a pretty striking observation in his reflection/review of Stephen Witt’s The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, NVIDIA, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip, saying, “If my experience with Claude Cowork is generalizable, then academic professional staff work is about to undergo a radical shift. Since I started to integrate Cowork into my workflows, AI has become…

Ellen Dollarhide McCoy, RealClearEducation New Jersey is the latest state to adopt a bell-to-bell school cell phone ban, joining at least 38 other states that have adopted similar restrictions…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter The Detroit school district is considering recognizing parent organizations that operate independently from the state and national Parent Teacher Association. The proposal, introduced by the Detroit Public Schools Community District during a Feb. 26 board committee meeting, came after members expressed frustrations over reported dysfunction and conflict within some local PTAs last year. Superintendent Nikolai Vitti said during a June board meeting some PTAs have had challenges with “proper implementation of elections” and “following protocols.” Board Member Monique Bryant told Chalkbeat this week the proposed…

Turning Images Into Learning Insights L&D professionals perform the meaningful work of ensuring members of an organization have the knowledge and skills needed to succeed. Their efforts mirror those of professional learning specialists in K-12 schools and faculty development centers in higher education. The work can be deeply rewarding when learning initiatives lead to meaningful improvements for employees, teams, and organizations. Across educational and workplace contexts, Instructional Designers must continuously develop their craft while working under the time pressures of design. As technology evolves, L&D professionals are expected to adapt quickly, integrating new tools and approaches into their workflows. Innovations…

The dark arts of “Hol­ly­wood account­ing” make it dif­fi­cult to deter­mine film bud­gets with pre­ci­sion. But accord­ing to rea­son­able reck­on­ings, James Cameron may have direct­ed not just one but sev­er­al of the most expen­sive movies of all time. The under­wa­ter sci-fi spec­ta­cle that was The Abyss neces­si­tat­ed one of the biggest pro­duc­tion bud­gets of the eight­ies, but it looked straight off Pover­ty Row when com­pared to Cameron’s next project just two years lat­er. Ter­mi­na­tor 2: Judg­ment Day was the first film to cost more than $100 mil­lion; True Lies, his next Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger vehi­cle, could have cost as much as…

My life has changed so much since my time as a Voices of Change fellow during the 2023 school year. As I wrote in my final essay of the fellowship, the beautiful, imperfect school I loved and helped build had closed. With the support of my fellowship editor, Cobretti Williams, I applied and was admitted to the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans, where I am taking graduate classes and teaching a freshman English composition course. In deciding what to write as a reflection on my time since the fellowship, I started three different essays and hated…

The fledgling field of naturopathic medicine could soon be facing an existential crisis as a key accreditor for its college programs teeters. Last week the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity voted 12 to zero against renewing recognition of the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education due to concerns about student outcomes at member institutions. While the vote is a recommendation and the final decision falls to the Education Department, CNME’s potential loss of federal recognition would have far-reaching consequences for the small field. CNME is the sole federally recognized accreditor for naturopathic medicine and has six member institutions,…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter This story was originally reported by Kate Sosin of The 19th.  The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Tuesday that a Colorado ban on conversion therapy for youth violates the free speech rights of a Christian counselor, clearing the way for a practice that goes against the recommendations of every major medical association in the country. Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson condemned the ruling as “cruel” in a statement to the media Tuesday. “Today’s reckless decision means more American kids will suffer,” she said. “The Court…

The AI Tool Ecosystem Is Expanding Rapidly AI tools are everywhere, but how many AI tools are there? It’s a simple question, yet the answer is far more complex than most people expect. New tools are launched daily, existing ones evolve rapidly, and entire categories emerge almost overnight. In fact, recent industry reports show that over 70% of businesses are already using AI in at least one function, highlighting just how quickly this ecosystem is expanding. The real challenge isn’t access anymore, but clarity. The growth of AI tools has created an environment where businesses are overwhelmed by choice. From…

Some college and university leaders are worried for the future of their institutions as the Missouri Senate considers a spending bill for fiscal year 2027 that would reshuffle funding for public higher education in the state. The bill, which narrowly passed the House last week, would mean major cuts for some institutions, including the state’s two historically Black universities. The legislation would base state funding to public colleges and universities on full-time enrollments. The bill’s sponsor, Missouri representative Dirk Deaton, argued the core funding institutions receive “varies wildly” because these allocations are primarily based on the amounts institutions have historically…