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Sitting in his wheelchair at a highly specialized private school in Manhattan designed for students with severe and multiple disabilities, Joshua Omoloju, 17, uses assistive technology to activate his Spotify playlist, sharing snippets of his favorite songs in class — tracks even his parents were unaware he loved.  It’s a role this deejay is thrilled to fill at a school that encourages him to express himself any way he can. The magnetic and jovial Omoloju, a student at The International Academy of Hope, is legally blind, hearing impaired and nonverbal. But none of that stopped him from playing Peanut Butter…

L&D is more than a function. It’s a live, reactive, and evolving organism that shifts as work, technology, and expectations shift around it. Keeping track (or even ahead) of those shifts is essential for L&D teams looking to plan, prioritize, and help employees perform at their best. But when they fall hard and fast, that’s easier said than done. If 2025 felt like a redefining year for workplace learning, that’s because it was. We tracked shifts as they unfolded across 2025. And what we found was that everything took a hit — from workloads and skill demands to tech adoption…

For nine years, Inside Higher Ed published an annual list of predictions known as the In-and-Out List, before taking a four-year hiatus. That ends now. In the last edition, IHE staff called 2020 “a year from hell” and a “rough year for higher ed.”  Well, that was then.  In many ways, 2025 pushed higher ed to the brink as the Trump administration found new ways to assert control over universities, crack down on international students and seek reforms long sought by conservatives.  At the same time, financial issues continue to squeeze institutions’ budgets, state lawmakers are getting more involved in…

It’s fourth period in the auto lab at Vel Phillips Memorial High School in Madison, Wisconsin, and a dozen students maneuver between nearly as many cars.At one bay, a junior adjusts the valves of an oxygen-acetylene torch and holds the flame to a suspended Subaru’s front axle to loosen its rusty bolts. Steps away, two classmates tease each other in Spanish as they finish replacing the brakes on a red Saab. Teacher Miles Tokheim moves calmly through the shop, checking students’ work and offering pointers.After extensive renovations, the lab reopened last year with more room and tools for young mechanics-in-training.…

David DesRosiers, RCP The free exercise of viewpoint diversity is existential for a functioning democracy. But it’s under direct threat.

eSchool News is counting down the 10 most-read stories of 2025. Story #9 focuses on chronic absenteeism. Key points: The biggest problem in education is that kids aren’t showing up to school. Last year, 26 percent of students missed a month of class or more, leading to dramatic declines in academic performance. Chronic absenteeism accounted for 27 percent of the drop in math scores and 45 percent of the decline in reading scores from 2019 to 2022. Students who are chronically absent are 7x more likely to drop out before graduating, and while state and district leaders are scrambling for…

Dive Brief: Christian Brothers University plans to cut 16 full-time faculty positions at the end of its spring semester as it tries to balance its “operating budget and position CBU for transformation,” Interim President Chris Englert said in a public message this week. Englert specifically noted the Catholic nonprofit was not eliminating any academic programs and “students will be able to complete their declared majors with minimal disruption.” Earlier this month, the Tennessee university announced that its accreditor had lifted its probationary status after two years after it made major cuts to reduce its deficit. Dive Insight: Christian Brothers has…

You are here: Home / Scholarships / 2026 Virginia Jeanette Drummond Kissane Women in STEM Memorial Scholarship (Deadline: April 14, 2026) December 18, 2025 By The FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Team Who Can Apply: The Matriarch of our family valued STEM education for young women. Virginia Jeanette Drummond Kissane taught for over thirty years, mostly at an all-girls high school. In her time there, she taught STEM subjects such as Chemistry, Biology, and Mathematics. She was passionate about the role of women in STEM and was an avid encourager of young women who sought to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and…

It was some­thing of a Christ­mas rit­u­al at Hunter S. Thomp­son’s Col­orado cab­in, Owl Farm. Every year, his sec­re­tary Deb­o­rah Fuller would take down the Christ­mas tree and leave it on the front porch rather than dis­pose of it entire­ly. That’s because Hunter, more often than not, want­ed to set it on fire. In 1990, Sam Allis, a writer for the then for­mi­da­ble TIME mag­a­zine, vis­it­ed Thomp­son’s home and watched the fiery tra­di­tion unfold. He wrote: I gave up on the inter­view and start­ed wor­ry­ing about my life when Hunter Thomp­son squirt­ed two cans of fire starter on the Christ­mas…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The majority of college-bound high school seniors — 80%  — either strongly or somewhat want to attend a college that “supports students of all races and ethnicities,” according to a recent poll that examines student views and beliefs concerning diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programming in higher education.  The poll — conducted by Art & Science Group, a Baltimore-based consulting firm — surveyed about 1,500 high school seniors in May through July.  Of those who were college-bound, it found that 61%…