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Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Students at Baldwin High School’s Medical and Health Sciences Academy — one of seven career-focused academies in the New York school — have been gaining real-world experience thanks to artificial intelligence-powered medical “manikins” that mimic human movements and speech, as well as medical emergencies like heart attacks, seizures and respiratory failures.  More typically found at the college level, if not medical or nursing school, these manikins are situated in classrooms designed like hospital rooms, with a bed and medical equipment.…

By Jace Gibson ’26 In summer 2025, film production student Jennah Elganainy ’26 completed an internship with Antelope Park, a wildlife conservation reserve in Gweru, Zimbabwe. She took photos and videos of various animals, such as lions, rhinos and zebras, in their natural habitats. Additionally, she conducted a series of interviews with local volunteers, and shot footage of a local school and orphanage for use in a documentary about the park. “I learned so much from my internship. Not only did I learn how to edit and record the wildlife, I learned how to adapt to new environments. You can’t…

Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Federal Republican lawmakers on Tuesday suggested that increasing students’ access and participation in sports could help stem school and gun violence, as Democrats pushed back on whether that’s a viable solution. The disagreement came on the heels of a fatal mass shooting at Brown University that occurred on the eve of Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre’s 13th anniversary.  “This is a hearing on school safety,” said House Education and Workforce Committee Chair Tim Walberg, R-Mich. Walberg spoke during a hearing titled “Benched:…

President Donald Trump’s skepticism of the current accreditation system bled into Tuesday’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) meeting—the first since Education Secretary Linda McMahon and other officials were confirmed. The Trump administration has cast accreditation as beset by alleged woke priorities, a theme repeated Tuesday along with pledges to shake up the system. Concerns about a supposed pervasive liberal ideology among such bodies prompted an executive order in April that threatened to strip federal recognition from accreditors that require institutions to engage in unlawful diversity practices. The Department of Education is also seeking public comment on…

One day after entering office in January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that banned what it called “discriminatory” diversity, equity and inclusion practices in the federal government, promising to “restor[e] merit-based opportunity.” It was the administration’s first mention of merit, which would soon become a buzzword both in and out of the higher education context. In a joint address to Congress in March, Trump said that under his leadership, individuals would be “hired based on merit” rather than race or gender. As the administration reached agreements with universities accused of perpetuating antisemitism on campus, institutions like Columbia University…

Olivia Cyrus, Yale Daily News The University is increasing “high visibility security coverage” and requiring IDs to enter most campus buildings.

LMS Optimization Strategies For Corporate Success Corporate learning is increasingly under pressure to deliver personalized, engaging, and measurable training aligned to fast-evolving business priorities and workforce diversity. Regardless of the considerable investments in LMS platforms, too many organizations underutilize them, failing to leverage these platforms for improving learning outcomes and talent capability. Recent data shows that when LMSs are optimized using AI personalization and streamlined workflows, there is an increase of more than 30% in engagement and retention of acquired skills. This article outlines well-documented LMS optimization strategies with industry best practices and real-world examples.​​ Proven LMS Optimization Strategies For…

6 Ways Founders Can Empower Teams To Innovate Independently For startup businesses, founder dependence is often not even a problem, but rather the reality of a limited number of employees working to get a business off the ground. However, maintaining such a practice once the business has grown in size can have particularly negative effects on its success, scalability, and longevity. Founder dependence creates a single point of failure and makes it harder for your business to adapt to industry trends by making swift decisions. For these reasons, and many more, it is essential to shift the focus away from…

by Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report December 17, 2025 Each day, nearly 70 percent of the world’s children are cared for and educated by adults other than their parents in home-based settings, many of which are informal and run by women. (In the United States, it’s about 30 percent.) In many countries, these home-based settings receive little financial or training support from their governments.  This summer, I moderated a panel made up of global child care experts at the National Association for Family Child Care’s (NAFCC) global learning convening. The event marked the first time that the association brought together…

Join our zero2eight Substack community for more discussion about the latest news in early care and education. Sign up now. Generative artificial intelligence is quickly spreading through U.S. public schools. Between the 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 school years, the share of K–12 teachers using gen AI for work doubled — from 25% to 53%. Prekindergarten teachers have been slower to adopt these tools. Our recent national survey of 1,586 public school pre-K teachers found that only 29% used gen AI in 2024–2025. Does this lower usage rate matter? It does if AI can help pre-K teachers manage their work more efficiently…