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Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Lawmakers in the New York Senate and Assembly are considering a bill that would empower New York City high school students. It doesn’t have a catchy name, nor has it attracted much debate and attention surrounding it. It doesn’t call for a tax increase or advance a partisan agenda. It reflects the best kind of policymaking: a pragmatic measure that delivers clear value with minimal lift. It also stands as one of the simplest ways to improve mayoral control of the city’s schools.  This bill…

I don”t know about you, but this is the time of year when I start doing that thing — you know the thing — where you open every drawer, look at every cable, and ask yourself: Did I actually use this? Was it worth it? Would I buy it again? It’s become a ritual for me. Every May or June, I take stock of what made it into the daily rotation and what sat on a shelf collecting dust. After 20-plus years in education — and more hours than I’d like to admit testing apps, gadgets, and workflows — I’ve…

Balancing School, Work, and Life Online learning can make it possible to pursue your education without stepping away from your responsibilities. “That’s one of the things the advisors took into account… not just my work schedule, but my home responsibilities and family.” — John Biello, Master of Public Administration Student “Post’s program allowed me to balance school and work. I felt supported through every step of the journey.” — Jeanne Yeatman, Doctor of Nursing Practice Student “The flexible format allows me to stay deeply engaged with the curriculum while maintaining my professional and family responsibilities.” — David Jannetty, Doctor of…

Dive Brief: Syracuse University is offering about 175 faculty members early retirement packages, according to a message last week to faculty from Provost Lois Agnew.  The buyout program is for faculty who have worked at Syracuse for at least 35 years or who teach in programs slated for closure or that have low enrollment. Eligible faculty will have until mid-May to opt in, and those who do would retire in August.  Earlier this month, Syracuse said it planned to cut nearly 100 academic programs. Agnew said then that the downsizing isn’t in response to budget pressure but rather to make…

I asked Claude Sonnet 4.6 Extended Thinking to research the tasks relevant to preparing our new students for the new realities they will face when they begin their planned careers. The urgency is real. Entry-level hiring at the 15 biggest tech firms fell 25 percent from 2023 to 2024, according to a SignalFire report. With AI tools performing more of the work previously reserved for recent graduates, new hires are expected to slot in at a higher level almost from day one. That is not a distant forecast. That is the market your Class of 2027 will enter. The transition from…

After his rad­i­cal con­ver­sion to Chris­t­ian anar­chism, Leo Tol­stoy adopt­ed a deeply con­trar­i­an atti­tude. The vehe­mence of his attacks on the class and tra­di­tions that pro­duced him were so vig­or­ous that cer­tain crit­ics, now most­ly obso­lete, might call his strug­gle Oedi­pal. Tol­stoy thor­ough­ly opposed the patri­ar­chal insti­tu­tions he saw oppress­ing work­ing peo­ple and con­strain­ing the spir­i­tu­al life he embraced. He cham­pi­oned rev­o­lu­tion, “a change of a people’s rela­tion towards Pow­er,” as he wrote in a 1907 pam­phlet, “The Mean­ing of the Russ­ian Rev­o­lu­tion”: “Such a change is now tak­ing place in Rus­sia, and we, the whole Russ­ian peo­ple, are accom­plish­ing it.” In…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. SAN DIEGO — Colleges are increasingly looking to recruit adult learners as a means of bolstering enrollment amid an anticipated decline in traditional-aged students. In turn, higher education officials are grappling with how to best serve students who have likely not been in a formal educational environment in years. For some, the answer is artificial intelligence — a topic that continues to divide educators. Detractors warn AI could diminish the value of higher ed by eroding students’ critical thinking skills and leading…

Maine community college leaders and students breathed a sigh of relief after lawmakers narrowly passed a supplemental budget permanently funding the state’s free community college program, albeit with some cost-saving tweaks. Gov. Janet Mills, who proposed and has been a driving force behind the program, signed the legislation Friday. “This biennial budget should send a clear message to every young person in Maine: if you are willing to work hard and build your future here, Maine is ready to invest in your success,” Mills said in a news release. The free college program began in 2022 to support high school…

Listen to the article 8 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal to Congress touts a “historic investment” into federally funded special education programs, including increased flexibility for states to make funding decisions and a renewed effort to reduce paperwork burdens for special educators and administrators.  Despite the proposed $539 million dollar increase over FY 2026, special education administrative organizations and disability rights advocacy groups say the federal spending plan zero funds and consolidates several programs for FY 2027, similar to the administration’s FY 26 proposal.…

I guess I thought it would be more pleasurable than this to be correct. Many days, as of late, I wake up, peruse the general chatter about education—both secondary and higher—in the news and social media, and experience a kind of déjà vu, a sense that I’ve already said what someone else is saying. This is probably because I have already said what someone else is saying, in many cases years earlier. One recent example was reading this Matt Barnum piece in Chalkbeat where he reports that Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy and the creator of the Khanmigo chatbot…