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Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter As states continue to launch and expand private school choice programs, one of their biggest challenges is building online platforms that meet the overwhelming demand.  Tennessee families experienced a bottleneck earlier this year as they waited hours online to submit applications for the state’s new Education Freedom Scholarship program. In July, the state told 166 parents that they had received a scholarship, only to alert them a few days later that the notification was a mistake.  “It wasn’t the most ideal user experience,” said Heide…

The Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has received a $55 million donation from alumnus and former trustee Stephen B. Ashley to establish the Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment. By combining the college’s existing departments of global development and natural resources, the new school is designed to bring together expertise in agricultural, life, environmental and social sciences, university officials said in a news release Tuesday. “The Ashley School will create a dynamic ecosystem for discovery, experiential learning and innovation, transcending disciplines to spark scientific breakthroughs and real-world economic benefits for New York state and the world,”…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. In an address to the nation on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump celebrated increased state involvement and decreased federal oversight in education — a task he said his administration has accomplished in the last 11 months.   “We have broken the grip of sinister woke radicals in our schools,” he said, “and control over those schools is back now in the hands of our great and loving states, where education belongs.”  Trump, however, remained silent on his education plan for 2026. Increased state…

Fewer than half — 46% — of transgender and nonbinary young people ages 13-24 report that most or all of the people in their lives use what they consider to be their pronouns, according to data released by The Trevor Project last week. For teens ages 13-17, that percentage drops to 40%. Transgender and nonbinary young people who were addressed by their pronouns had lower rates of suicide attempts in the past year compared to those whose pronouns were ignored — 11% vs. 17%. That’s a 31% less chance of a past-year suicide attempt, according to the nonprofit that provides…

The Shenandoah Center for Immersive Learning (SCiL) at Shenandoah University has released “Lewis and Clark VR,” a virtual reality educational experience that follows the famed cross-country expedition led by Meriweather Lewis and William Clark in the early 19th century. The VR experience, developed by a team of Shenandoah students led by Adjunct Instructor of VR Design and Immersive Media Specialist Lee A. Graff ’19, M.Ed., offers a new level of interactivity and access to the significant sites and moments associated with the expedition, and aims to capture newer audiences and expand users’ understanding of this important piece of American history…

On Wednesday, the faculty senate voted on a resolution calls on the administration to review “procedures for dealing with contentious issues and politically charged situations.” Through their senate and American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapter, faculty at the University of Oklahoma are pushing administrators for clarity on the suspension of Mel Curth, a graduate teaching assistant who was put on paid administrative leave last month after a student claimed Curth gave her an unfair grade because she cited the Bible. Faculty are also asking the university to strengthen its protection of instructors who are politically targeted or harassed. On…

Scott Yenor, City Journal Internet pornography makes people sicker and more callous.

I despise Larry Summers. As a professor, a president, an economist, and a person, I hate almost everything about him. Summers is a loudmouthed, condescending jerk, overflowing with idiotic, destructive, and bigoted ideas. When Summers’s close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and his humiliating emails were revealed, it filled me with schadenfreude. And yet, Summers is still entitled to the protections of academic freedom—not because Summers is good, but because we need to defend the principle of academic freedom even when the professor in question is a scumbag. It is important to note that, as always, Summers is not suffering nearly…

Privacy As The Cornerstone Of The Learning Ecosystem There’s an invisible contract in every classroom, whether physical or digital. Students show up vulnerable, uncertain, willing to fail in order to learn. Teachers open their pedagogy. Publishers expose their intellectual capital. And somewhere in that exchange, trust either forms or fractures. For decades, this worked in physical spaces. A closed door. A graded paper returned face down. The implicit understanding that what happens in learning stays in learning. Then we moved online, and suddenly that contract became complicated. Can EdTech rebuild the trust that existed? When Efficiency Broke The Promise The…

You are here: Home / Scholarships / JK and Mary Ann Newville Memorial Engineering and Nursing Scholarship (Deadline: March 22, 2026) December 18, 2025 By The FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Team Who Can Apply: JK and Mary Ann Newville were beloved parents who got married in 1957, the same year JK graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in civil engineering. Mary Ann was studying nursing but dropped out to have and raise her and JK’s nine children. Mary Ann and JK valued education greatly, spending a small fortune sending all of their children to various colleges so they…