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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…

Technologists, economists and visionaries are warning us that in the next three to 18 months, we are going to experience rapid and pervasive disruption of our professional lives, workplace models and distribution of income. Professional positions requiring college degrees will be lost, remade into highly productive, cost-efficient, hybrid human-AI models where human contributions and compensation will collectively shrink and evaporate. The question we must answer very soon is what can we teach that will prepare our learners to endure the huge changes that are upon us? We must not stay the course as it becomes abundantly clear that things are not…

Bender & Blinder, NY Times The Justice Department’s demands for admissions-related data from Stanford, Ohio State and the University of California, San Diego, reveal an expansion of its…

From the 18th cen­tu­ry onward, the gen­res of Goth­ic hor­ror and fan­ta­sy have flour­ished, and with them the sen­su­al­ly vis­cer­al images now com­mon­place in film, TV, and com­ic books. These gen­res per­haps reached their aes­thet­ic peak in the 19th cen­tu­ry with writ­ers like Edgar Allan Poe and illus­tra­tors like Gus­tave Dore. But it was in the ear­ly twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry that a more pop­ulist sub­genre tru­ly came into its own: “weird fic­tion,” a term H.P. Love­craft used to describe the pulpy brand of super­nat­ur­al hor­ror cod­i­fied in the pages of Amer­i­can fan­ta­sy and hor­ror mag­a­zine Weird Tales—first pub­lished in 1923. (And…

March Madness, that anxious, exciting and promising time for players and fans alike, is upon us. Like millions of others, I have been really enjoying these three weeks of competitive games full of surprises and awesome athletic feats. However, beyond the thrills, this moment highlights the stakes not just for the players, but also for colleges and their broader missions. While loyal students and alumni have experienced moments of joy and grief as they followed their schools’ progress, and administrators hoped for wins that will increase applications and donations, even more important for the nation is how these colleges enable…

At a recent U.S. Commission on Civil Rights briefing, the symptoms of antisemitism that have plagued college campuses were on full display. It was the commission’s first briefing on antisemitism in nearly two decades—and the testimony during the briefing and public comment period made clear that this issue can no longer be treated as episodic or isolated. One student from the University of California, Santa Barbara, described men shouting antisemitic slurs outside his Jewish fraternity house, prompting him to remove identifying signs from the building out of fear. In subsequent weeks, eggs were thrown at the fraternity house, and one…

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Schools have been struggling for nearly a decade with stagnant or declining test scores. Some have blamed external factors like the pandemic or children’s screen use outside of school. But what if, in a sort of educational horror movie, the call is coming from inside the house? Such is the provocative theory advanced by Jared Cooney Horvath, a Ph.D-holding neuroscientist who runs an education consulting company. Students’ learning and attention have been derailed by the proliferation of screens in schools. “When tech enters education, learning goes…

Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report Admissions-focused platforms could farm out routine questions and give overworked counselors more time to focus on individual students.