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What Your LMS Budget Doesn’t Reveal Choosing a Learning Management System (LMS) is one of the most important decisions an organization can make for its training strategy. It impacts everything—from employee learning outcomes to talent retention, compliance, productivity, and the organization’s ability to innovate. Yet many companies approach LMS implementation with a misleading assumption: the cost is limited to the subscription or license fee. In reality, LMS implementation has a complex cost structure. Some costs are predictable, while others remain hidden until midway through deployment—often when budgets are already locked and timelines have slipped. These hidden costs are not always…

Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means table top games quickly reappear on kitchen tables. Games provide opportunities for learning mathematics actively. These moments of playful learning raise a broader question: how can we support student’s mathematical learning at home without turning the holidays into formal lessons? One answer comes from a simple but surprisingly powerful classroom learning tool: Tarsia jigsaw puzzles. These are puzzles created with free Tarsia software, from Hermitech Laboratory. The software enables people to create, print out and save customized jigsaws, domino activities and different rectangular…

It will no doubt come as a relief to many read­ers that San­ta Claus appears to have been a Union sup­port­er. We know this because he appears dis­trib­ut­ing gifts to sol­diers from that side of the Mason-Dixon in one of his ear­li­est depic­tions. That illus­tra­tion, “San­ta Claus in Camp” (above), first appeared in the Harper’s Week­ly Christ­mas issue of 1862, when the Amer­i­can Civ­il War was still tear­ing its way through the coun­try. Its artist, a Bavar­i­an immi­grant named Thomas Nast, is now remem­bered for hav­ing first drawn the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty as a don­key and the Repub­li­can Par­ty as an ele­phant,…

Colleen Kinder, NYT Since 2014, I’ve led a study-abroad writing course for Yale University in Auvillar, a village in the southwest of France. For many of those years, I’ve experimented with…

eSchool News is counting down the 10 most-read stories of 2025. Story #5 focuses on a math platform that offers AI coaching for maximum impact. Math is a fundamental part of K-12 education, but students often face significant challenges in mastering increasingly challenging math concepts. Many students suffer from math anxiety, which can lead to a lack of confidence and motivation. Gaps in foundational knowledge, especially in early grades and exacerbated by continued pandemic-related learning loss, can make advanced topics more difficult to grasp later on. Some students may feel disengaged if the curriculum does not connect to their interests…

Jane Swift, RealClearEd Nearly a year into his presidency, the Trump administration continues to dramatically reshape the federal role in education and workforce policy—dismantling…

Bram Smith, NPR Budget shortfalls and nearly $1 trillion in looming federal Medicaid cuts have prompted states to rein in spending on a widely embraced autism therapy, pinching families who…

Chamath Palihapitiya, X Examining the ratio of Democrats to Republicans at leading universities

The Hidden Operational Drag Costing L&D Time Corporate learning has never been more strategic. Skills shift faster. Digital tools evolve monthly. HR and L&D teams are under pressure to build agile, scalable learning ecosystems that keep pace with business change. Yet even with modern LMS platforms, better content libraries, and smarter analytics, most L&D leaders feel a persistent drag—a slow, invisible force that delays programs, complicates operations, and quietly erodes the impact of training initiatives. That hidden drag is workflow debt. Just like technical debt slows down IT teams, workflow debt silently harms L&D operations. It shows up as manual…

Why Holiday Onboarding Matters During The Festive Season The holiday season is the busiest time of year for many businesses. This means they often need extra help, quick training, and good coordination, which makes holiday onboarding essential in this busy time. Why? When new seasonal employees arrive at a workplace, how you welcome and prepare them matters a lot. A well-organized onboarding process helps teams handle the rush with less stress, fewer mistakes, and stronger support. Seasonal employees need simple instructions, quick learning, and consistent support because they join when things are busiest. Actually, businesses often face high turnover, tight…