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A new report found younger students are completing undergraduate credentials at higher rates. Xavier Lorenzo/iStock/Getty Images Plus Students are earning undergraduate credentials at younger ages, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The latest “Undergraduate Degree Earners” report, released today, found that credential completions rose over all in the 2024–25 academic year compared to the previous year. More than 3.4 million people earned an undergraduate credential during the 2024–25 academic year, a 3.2 percent increase over 2023–24. For the first time, students ages 18 to 20 made up the largest share of first-time associate degree earners, 32.6 percent,…

Vanessa Mayer, RCEducation Parents in the Beaverton area were convinced that this shiny, new, state-of-the-art Oregon public school would offer a state-of-the-art education.

Key points: The world of work is changing fast. Careers no longer sit neatly within a single industry, city, or even country; they span disciplines, time zones, technologies, and cultures. If education is to prepare learners for this reality, it must shift from a narrow focus on content delivery to building the foundational skills that future careers demand. Because the truth is this: Many of tomorrow’s roles are not entirely new; they are hybrids. An AI Prompt Engineer, for example, sits at the intersection of language, logic, and technology, translating human intent into instructions machines can understand. Climate and Sustainability…

Moving From Static eLearning And AI-Generated Content To Competency-Driven Learning Experiences With more than 25 years of experience in Learning and Development, Dimitris Tolis is the Founder and CEO of Human Asset, where he has led the design of custom eLearning, learning academies, and AI-powered learning solutions for European agencies such as EUAA, CEPOL, EUDA, and international organizations, such as the Council of Europe, ESM, United Nations ITU. As a Senior Instructional Designer, Certified Executive Coach, and AI Researcher at the University of Turku Finland, he brings together Instructional Design, neuroscience, and educational technology to create learning experiences that are…

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Walla Walla Community College’s governing board voted last week to close the institution’s satellite campus in Clarkston, Washington, as leaders try to address a $4.3 million budget gap. The college is planning a two-year teach-out period for the campus to run through June 2028, allowing current students to complete their programs, WWCC said in a news release.  At the same time, college President Chad Hickox will talk with state lawmakers and stakeholders over the next year about alternative funding sources…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Anna Maria College could be at risk of closure, according to the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education.  The agency notified the Catholic institution last week that it can neither confirm that Anna Maria “has sufficient resources to be able to sustain operations at current levels,” nor that it can meet its obligations to students in the current and following academic year.  The department said it is working with college leaders to ensure Anna Maria has a long-term operating plan, which…

Key Takeaways Google just merged two of its most powerful AI tools. Notebooks in Gemini bring NotebookLM”s research capabilities directly into the Gemini app — no more switching between tabs. Educators can organize entire projects — lesson research, unit planning, PD prep — in dedicated notebook spaces with persistent context. School and district admins control access through the Google Workspace for Education admin console. Available now on web, with mobile rolling out soon. What Just Happened: Notebooks Land Inside Gemini If you’ve been using Google’s Gemini app for brainstorming lessons, drafting parent emails, or exploring new teaching strategies, you know…

We’ve lived but a few years so far into the age when arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence can pro­duce con­vinc­ing sto­ries, songs, essays, poems, nov­els, and even films. For many of us, these recent­ly imple­ment­ed func­tions have already come to feel nec­es­sary in our dai­ly life, but it may sur­prise us to con­sid­er how many peo­ple had long assumed that com­put­ers could already per­form them. That belief sure­ly owes in part to the roles played by effec­tive­ly sen­tient machines in pop­u­lar fic­tions since at least the ear­ly decades of the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry. Revis­it­ing George Orwell’s Nine­teen Eighty-Four, we even find a device very…

Even before the Supreme Court rules on transgender students’ participation in athletics, colleges and universities have received a clear message from Washington: Inclusive policies may come at a cost. Recent actions—particularly from the White House and the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights—demonstrate that institutions can face investigations, funding threats or both, depending on how they interpret Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in educational institutions. Title IX was enacted to expand access to education. Over time, courts and federal agencies have increasingly recognized that discrimination “on the basis of sex” cannot be separated from gender identity. Yet this administration has…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Schools have a 77% chance of reducing chronic absenteeism when using effective approaches, such as implementing early warning systems to analyze attendance and sharing attendance data with parents, according to a report released Monday by the HEDCO Institute for Evidence-Based Educational Practice at the University of Oregon.  Students exposed to any attendance intervention were about 9% less likely to be chronically absent compared to those who attended schools that did not have any attendance interventions, the report said. The report is based…