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If 2025 featured a mix of highs and lows in early care and education, 2026 is poised to bring a series of deeper challenges to the field, as states prepare to make difficult budget decisions in anticipation of the looming federal funding cuts. “It’s pretty grim,” said Natalie Renew, executive director of Home Grown, a national initiative committed to improving the quality of and access to home-based child care, about the outlook for the sector. “I don’t think anyone is particularly optimistic about child care” in the new year, added Daniel Hains, chief policy and professional advancement officer at the…

Oral argument date: Oct. 31, 2023 Decision date: March 15, 2024 Background: Two school board members in California’s Poway Unified School District blocked from their social media accounts parents who posted lengthy and repetitive comments. The parents, Christopher and Kimberly Garnier, posted nearly identical comments on school board members’ 42 Facebook posts, and they left 226 identical comments within a 10-minute span on one school board members’ tweets, according to court documents. The lawsuit came during a time of heightened political conflict and parental angst in school settings, including during school board meetings and against school board members. A similar…

The “Course Completion” Illusion It is a familiar story for many L&D professionals right now. You launch a comprehensive “Generative AI Fundamentals” pathway. You curate the best content, you market the launch, and the numbers look great. Completion rates are high. Feedback sheets are positive. But three months later, you look at the operational metrics. Is the code cleaner? Is the marketing copy faster? Are the strategic plans more robust? Often, the answer is “no.” The problem isn’t your Instructional Design. The problem is that we are treating AI adoption as a content challenge when it is actually a workflow…

AI Can And Will Make Mistakes Themes in 2025 through the lens of L&D? Perfect! Great question! You are such an intelligent human to ask this. Love your intellectualism and enthusiasm! Here’s an overview of how 2025 went from an L&D perspective. Do you want me to add emojis 🙂 ? Should I remove em-dashes—just for you? Or shall I create a downloadable executive version you can impress your boss with? Just say the word. If I Were An LLM: A Look Back At Learning And Humans In 2025 What a year this was for me! A year in awe…

Listen to the article 8 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Foreign countries are courting American researchers as the Trump administration cancels federal grants en masse that don’t comport to its policy agenda, higher education experts say.  The administration had slashed between $3.3 and $3.7 billion in research funding to over 600 universities by late July, according to an analysis by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank. And institutions abroad — particularly in Europe, China and Canada — have taken notice, stepping up their recruitment of U.S. researchers, said Tabbye Chavous,…

Saul Geiser recently argued in Inside Higher Ed that the SAT is a “poor fit” for public universities and that high school GPA is a stronger, fairer predictor of college success. That argument might have been defensible a decade ago—before widespread grade inflation, before transcripts became inflated signals increasingly unmoored from demonstrated competency and before the University of California ran a failed experiment eliminating standardized tests. Today, his argument ignores what is happening in real time. Nowhere is that clearer than in the recent Senate-Administration Working Group on Admissions report from the University of California, San Diego—written not by testing…

Kayla Chan, The Stanford Daily In November, matchmaking start-up Marriage Pact sent a cease-and-desist to the recently founded Date Drop, claiming similarities in websites, marketing copy and…

Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Denise Forte is president and CEO of EdTrust. Tucked into the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” is a multi-billion dollar a year tax giveaway in the form of a federal voucher program. Given the current state of the U.S. Department of Education, a House budget proposal to slash Title I funds, and outcomes of state-run voucher programs, it is no surprise that early indications are that the Trump administration will stop governors who seek to craft programs that best fit the needs of…

You are here: Home / Scholarships / Arlin Diaz Memorial Scholarship 2026 (Deadline: April 15, 2026) January 5, 2026 By The FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Team Who Can Apply: Arlin Diaz was a beloved daughter, wife, and mother whose vibrant spirit continues to be an inspiration to many. Arlin was of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent and touched the lives of all who knew her with her warmth, kindness, and unwavering determination. Even though Arlin passed away far too soon at the age of thirty-seven, her legacy of resilience and compassion lives on. Arlin was not only a proud graduate of Kean…

As we enter the new year, I want to share some thoughts about what higher education needs to accomplish as a sector in 2026. I view these as resolutions: tough challenges we need to tackle with courage and determination. Are you ready? Fix Accreditation I have participated in accreditation as a college president, a law school faculty member and as a board member of the NWCCU, the Northwest’s regional accreditor, and so I say this from experience: Our accreditation system is horrible. It wastes massive amounts of time and accomplishes almost nothing to guarantee students a good education. We need…