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Listen to the article 9 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback.  There are people who fear that artificial intelligence will render human beings irrelevant in the workforce. Denise Kleinrichert is not one of those people. A management professor at San Francisco State University, Kleinrichert predicts that the use of AI will become as common as the use of cell phones, and that organizational departments to oversee AI’s use will become as ordinary as human resources departments.  “Is it going to completely replace all human beings? I can’t foresee that in our lifetime. Or…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moves to revamp the Clean School Bus Program, the agency has completed or is actively addressing 11 recommendations its Office of Inspector General made to improve implementation and oversight of the $5 billion in grants aimed at helping school districts purchase eco-friendly buses.  The office’s latest findings follow a review of five of its previous reports investigating challenges with the Clean School Bus Program — in which two key issues identified were EPA’s application…

Matt Stewart, RCEd Today’s job market is exceptionally tough for both new entrants to the workforce and the companies that traditionally hire them.

by Kelly Field, The Hechinger Report April 7, 2026 CRANSTON, R.I. — Before he landed in prison three years ago for selling drugs, Joe worked on and off as a construction laborer. In his free time, he’d do little projects around the house, his youngest daughter by his side.  “I always liked working with my hands,” said Joe, whose last name is being withheld at the request of prison leadership in order to protect his privacy. “And she liked to help.” So when prison leaders offered him a spot in a construction preapprenticeship program earlier this year, Joe, who is…

Comments on the administration’s proposed regulations to expand the Pell Grant to cover short-term job training programs are due April 8. Here’s our recap of how to write and submit a public comment. Your high school government teacher may have taught you how a bill becomes a law, but did they teach you how to write an impactful public comment on federal regulations? Our guess at Inside Higher Ed is, probably not. But last week, the Education Department published the first in what will likely be a series of highly consequential regulatory proposals related to the largest overhaul of federal…

Mark Lieberman, Education Week The president again wants lawmakers to consider billions in K-12 spending cuts and program eliminations.

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday that its Office for Civil Rights is rescinding parts of resolution agreements resulting from Title IX investigations under previous Democratic administrations.  The resolution agreements were meant to advance LGBTQ+ inclusion, as the Obama and Biden administrations interpreted the law barring sex discrimination in education programs as including LGBTQ+ students in its protections.  “Previous Administrations distorted the law contrary to its plain meaning to police discrimination on the basis of ‘gender identity,’ not sex, and imposed…

Paul Glastris & Nate Weisberg, Washington Monthly The “Do No Harm” rule codifies the idea that every college degree should make graduates better off than if they had never attended.

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The pandemic transition to fully virtual K-12 instruction during the 2020-21 school year led to fewer students going to college, according to a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. When schools moved to online classes, submission rates for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid dropped by 4.2 percentage points and first-year college enrollment fell by 2.5 percentage points, the study found. Test-taking rates for ACT also declined by 4.8 percentage points.  While FAFSA submission…

One of Shenandoah University’s early forays into collaborative online international learning (COIL) is the subject of a new paper published in the Journal of Educational Administration.  The piece is co-authored by Shenandoah Professor of Leadership Studies Catherine Dunn Shiffman, Ph.D., and her counterpart in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dina Sijamhodžić-Nadarević, Ph.D., associate professor of teaching pedagogy/religious pedagogy at the University of Sarajevo.  Their article is titled “Crossing the ocean virtually: a pilot exchange between universities in the United States and Bosnia and Herzegovina.” It focuses on how COIL could be used to support preparation for educators and educational leaders, using their…