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Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Enrollment in California K-12 schools, and in schools across the country, is declining rapidly as birth rates drop and immigration rates fall. This school year, California had the largest decline in enrollment rates since 2021-22, after schools returned from the pandemic. Enrollment in public schools declined by 1.3%, or by 74,961 students, according to data released Thursday by the California Department of Education. State public school enrollment is now at 5.7 million students. The biggest declines were in private schools, with a 6.6% drop in…
As the clock ticked down, schools were simply unprepared to be graded on their assignment.Federal disability law has required local governments to make their websites accessible for decades. Two years ago, during the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Justice published a “final rule” spelling out how schools could measure whether their websites and mobile apps were accessible for students with disabilities, relying on widely accepted guidelines. The agency also set enforcement dates based on population size. For states and local governments with a population over 50,000, the first date would have taken effect later this week.Experts told EdSurge at…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Although artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the way companies do business, 53% of employers said their main challenge was finding graduates with the right AI skills, according to new research from Pearson and Amazon Web Services. The report found that 78% of higher education leaders said they believed they were meeting employer expectations, but only 28% of employers said universities were keeping up with AI‑driven change. Meanwhile, a scant 14% of current graduates said they had achieved a high level…
Image via Wikimedia Commons It must come up in every single argument, from sophisticated to sophomoric, about the practicability of non-violent pacifism. “Look what Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. were able to achieve!” “Yes, but what about Hitler? What do you do about the Nazis?” The rebuttal implies future Nazi-like entities looming on the horizon, and though this reductio ad Hitlerum generally has the effect of nullifying any continued rational discussion, it’s difficult to imagine a satisfying pacifist answer to the problem of naked, implacable hatred and aggression on such a scale as that of the Third Reich. Even…
When a leading university system defies a century-old precedent in the name of efficiency, other universities will follow in its wake. The University of North Carolina system has begun soliciting proposals for 90-credit bachelor’s degree programs—reduced from the traditional 120—offering its multiple institutions planning grants of up to $20,000. Though UNC is not the only public system to go down this path, the UNC proposal nevertheless signals a continuing shift of the three-year degree concept from the margins of higher education to the mainstream. This is unfortunate. The initiative might have been a good idea 10 years ago. Now it…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. SAN DIEGO — Artificial intelligence is rapidly progressing and poised to reshape the workforce in the near future. The higher education sector is in a unique position, as both an employer of millions of workers and a system that prepares students for the labor force. At the annual ASU+GSV Summit last week, four college leaders talked to Higher Ed Dive to weigh in on two questions: What about AI’s use in higher education are you most excited for? And what has you…
Key points: I once met a student who had attended three different schools before arriving at mine. His parents described him in familiar terms: quiet, disengaged, unmotivated. During one of his first classes, a teacher noticed the sketches in the margins of his notebook–detailed drawings of architectural structures and futuristic cities. Instead of redirecting him back to the worksheet, she asked about the drawings. For the first time in years, the student began talking about something he valued. Within weeks, the same student was volunteering ideas and asking deeper questions. Nothing about the curriculum changed. Someone simply saw him. Moments…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: An overwhelming majority — 87% — of women education leaders say they want to advance in their careers, and 68% reported taking on expanded leadership responsibilities in the last two years, according to a recent national survey from Women Leading Ed. However, an even larger majority — 92% — say stress is a significant problem in education leadership, and nearly 4 in 5 say their work-life balance is not good, the nonprofit found. Top stressors include funding and budgets, followed…
By: Misty Chandler The Real World Learning (RWL) ecosystem will come together to collaborate and learn together during the District Planning Summit, April 16. Like the RWL Conference in February, it will be about moving our collective work forward to make Market Value Asset attainment accessible for more and more students across the Kansas City region, which straddles the state line between Kansas and Missouri. The collaboration that is a hallmark of Real World Learning – among school and district leaders, administrators, educators, curriculum leaders, and business, industry, and community partners – is truly uncommon. I think it boils down to a commitment to work together for the collective impact of reimagining high…
Workplace skills have changed a lot over the last few years. While the demand for skills has kept rising, the lack of visibility around what workplace skills are needed has created quite a big roadblock for anyone working towards upskilling and reskilling their employees. According to the TalentLMS 2026 L&D report, 65% of employees say performance expectations have gone up recently. At the same time, over half of these workers feel their current workloads leave absolutely no time for learning new things. On top of that, companies do not know what their teams can actually do. And the employees do…