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Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A Southern California school district agreed to sweeping reforms Friday in settling a state attorney general investigation into how it handled allegations staff sexually abused students. The wide-ranging stipulated judgment with the El Monte Union High School District draws to a close an 18-month investigation, which found “systemic shortfalls in the district’s response to allegations and complaints of sexual harassment, assault, and abuse of students.” The investigation was spurred by a 2023 article…

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Microlearning Instructional Design Strategies For Associations Designing microlearning is a different beast; you are no longer stringing together hour-long lectures, but rather crafting tiny, powerful moments of learning. While traditional instructional design rules still apply, association educators must bend them to rethink how lessons, content, and outcomes are planned for very short formats. Without thoughtful design, short lessons can become shallow or disjointed, but your members deserve microlearning that is just as impactful as a full-length course. eBook Release Microlearning For Associations: A Playbook For Engagement, Retention, And Revenue Discover how to transform long, one-and-done courses into short, focused, and…

From Building Software To Orchestrating AI The idea of building a platform no longer means what it once did. Before the rise of AI, organizations either purchased a vendor system for speed and lower risk, or built their own platform to gain full control and customization. Each path came with trade-offs. Vendor platforms might require companies to adapt internal processes to external software, while custom development meant long-term maintenance and engineering overhead. Today, much of the infrastructure that once required months of development has become commoditized through cloud services and APIs. Organizations assemble ecosystems of services—authentication providers, analytics tools, content…

As March Madness draws to its conclusion, we want to focus on the intersection of governance and a different type of athletic madness. Take a quiz. To what extent is your institution’s governing board familiar with each of these elements? NIL (name, image and likeness)NIL collectivesPrivate equity in athleticsBuyout agreementsRevenue sharing and disparities between teams, conferences and sourcesNational Labor Relations Board–athlete organization and collective bargainingConference realignment Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) litigationTitle IXTransfer portalNational Collegiate Athletic Association enforcement (negligible as it may be)Diversity of state laws regarding NIL and athlete income/taxesGambling on college athleticsAthlete eligibility appeals Some topics should be familiar…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter America’s schools and colleges rightly devote attention to what young people should know. They focus on developing human capital: the knowledge, skills and credentials needed for the labor market. That matters, but it’s not enough, because knowledge, skills and credentials don’t exist in a vacuum. They move through relationships and networks. This social capital — the knowledge of how to forge connections that make opportunities visible and attainable — is the missing curriculum in American K-12 and postsecondary education. And it’s a shortcoming with consequences.…

Over the past decade, there have been numerous legislative attempts to deny transgender people access to bathrooms. Plus, campaigns were launched to ban books that include trans characters and storylines from K–12 schools and public libraries. More recently, policy efforts to deny gender-affirming health care to trans youth and to prohibit the participation of trans athletes in girls’ and women’s sports have intensified. Trans Legislation Tracker, an independent research organization, reports that so far in 2026, there have been 747 active bills across the country that, if passed, would negatively impact trans and genderqueer people. Last year, of the 1,022…

Whether or not we believe in any god, most of us here in the twen­ty-first cen­tu­ry have the impres­sion of divine rulers over­look­ing human­i­ty with at least the­o­ret­i­cal love and benev­o­lence. They for­give us, they have plans for us, they nev­er close a door with­out open­ing a win­dow, and so on. But in the par­tic­u­lar case of the Chris­t­ian God, we’ve all heard that he both giveth and taketh away, even if we’ve nev­er so much as opened the Bible, Old Tes­ta­ment or New. That line comes from the Book of Job, which belongs to the Old, a text whose…

The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt Published in April 2025 AI hadn’t really changed how I work until my institution partnered with Anthropic and I got access to Claude Cowork. While experimenting with Cowork, I read The Thinking Machine. The book is not about how AI will change higher education. While The Thinking Machine talks about the impact of the release of ChatGPT on Nov. 30, 2022 (“Students realized they could use it to write essays and homework was forever obsolete” p. 191), The Thinking Machine provides no insights into AI and…

Claire Harrington, Minding The Campus America’s elite universities had systematically prioritized race over merit in admissions. That’s why reform is necessary.