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The cancellation of over 80% of obligated funds of foreign assistance in 2025 ended 64 years of USAID’s leadership in global development and international education. While only about 3% of USAID’s 2024 spending of $40 billion went to education, U.S. funding was catalytic and complementary, giving both local and global visibility to the transformative power of education. This commentary goes beyond current conversations on the impact of USAID’s sudden departure from Africa’s development space, focusing instead on how countries such as Nigeria are responding by building new relationships with external and national actors and a new development model. Between 2001…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter LINCOLN — As the Nebraska Legislature considers whether to mandate increased support for struggling young readers, a Lincoln mother urges officials to act as she continues a years-long push for literacy and dyslexia awareness. Heather Schmidt of Lincoln said she is “cautiously optimistic” about the newest amendment to Legislative Bill 1050. If passed, the State Board of Education would craft a model policy around reading interventions, dyslexia screening and standards on when to recommend holding students back for persistent reading deficiencies by the end of third…

It is unclear how the student research content ban will be enforced and whether faculty will be required to report students for violating the rule. raclro/iStock/Getty Images Texas Tech University’s plans to phase out and eventually close all programs “centered on” sexual orientation and gender identity also prohibit students from creating “degree-culminating” research or theses on such topics, according to a recent memo from university leadership. After current sexuality and gender studies majors and graduate students complete their teach-outs, “no degree-culminating student research within the TTU System will be permitted to center on SOGI topics,” the memo states. “Graduate theses…

Administrators at Maryland’s Calvert County Public Schools believed the math classes they added to their course catalog years ago — pre-algebra and business math among them — helped students by giving them more time to master basic concepts before tackling harder material. But when district leaders examined what these courses truly accomplished, they realized they held kids back, keeping them from higher-level math.  So one by one, starting in 2014, this 15,000-student school system an hour southeast of Washington D.C., began eliminating lower-level math courses. The last one to go, intermediate algebra, was pulled in 2021.  Calvert County school leaders…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Clarke University, in Iowa, is poised to eliminate all of its long-term debt thanks to a $5 million donation, the private Catholic institution said last week.  The gift, from Clarke alumna Honmai Goodman and her husband, Joseph, follows an announced restructuring last fall that includes eliminating programs and staff and faculty roles. The gift was factored into the plan then, though the donors were previously unnamed. The university plans to rename a central campus hub that includes a library and…

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The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation on Tuesday announced its 101st class of fellows, which features 223 academics, scientists and artists in 55 different fields. It was a competitive year for the prestigious fellowship, which includes a monetary stipend. Reviewers looked through a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants—1,500 more than in 2025. With federal research funding dwindling and private funding becoming precious in its absence, understanding who typically receives the Guggenheim fellowship—one of few fellowships open to humanities, art and social science applicants—is more important than ever, said Dominique Baker, an associate professor of education and public policy at the…

Educators at Eastside Elementary in Chattanooga, Tenn., have spent years building trust with immigrant students and their families.That trust was tested last year when fears of immigration enforcement led some families to leave the community, and the school saw its enrollment decline, according to Greg Wilkey, the school’s principal.Now, that trust could be further tested, if not derailed, Wilkey said, if Tennessee lawmakers succeed in passing legislation this year that would require schools to defy federal law and collect students’ immigration status information.“If we start tracking and recording and asking these questions, I just don’t think the parents are going…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. CHICAGO — Small school districts are perhaps the most vulnerable to cyber incidents due to their limited budgets and resources.  But whether it’s increased vulnerability to cybercriminals looking to exploit the valuable student and staff personal data on-hand or a natural disaster that takes down an entire network, there are key steps that technology leaders in these school systems can take to protect those assets, regardless of finances. “Disruptions come in many forms. Last spring, we had a huge storm come through.…

What Are Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs)? Multiple-choice questions are assessments that evaluate knowledge by asking learners to select the correct answer from a list of options. Also known as MCQs, they are widely used in corporate learning because they are scalable, consistent, and easy to analyze. In a multiple-choice format, each question includes a prompt and a predefined set of answers, making evaluation fast and objective. Multiple-choice questions have a simple structure. The stem is the question or problem. The options are the possible answers given to the learner. One of these options is correct, while the others are distractors. Distractors…