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Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the state’s controversial social studies standards, citing last minute changes that included lessons on the Bible. The standards were pushed by former state Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters and adopted by the state board of education earlier this year.  In the closely divided opinion, the state supreme court ruled that the creation of the standards violated the Oklahoma Open Meetings Act, which requires state boards to publicly post such changes in an effort…

The Video NotebookWe often watch videos to learn. Open a YouTube video on the left and Google Keep or Docs on the right. You can type your notes while the video plays. You do not have to minimize the video or switch tabs to write down a thought.The Translation StationFor students needing language support, open the student text on the left and Google Translate on the right. You can copy a phrase you do not understand and paste it into the translator. You can write your feedback in English and translate it to the student’s home language quickly.The Collaborative Command…

Why Training Teams Need A Unified No-Code Backend Team training has always been essential, but in 2026, it has become mission-critical. Organizations are dealing with distributed workforces, hybrid roles, cross-functional demands, rapid product updates, and increasingly complex compliance mandates. Training teams must deliver consistent experiences across offices, time zones, job roles, and technologies—while keeping content fresh, data accurate, and operations efficient. But there’s a painful truth nobody wants to admit: Most training functions are built on scattered, disconnected systems that were never designed to work together. An LMS for courses. An HRMS for employee data. Excel sheets for tracking. Slides…

Universities can’t encourage professors to wade into controversial subjects, then punish professors for disagreeing with the administrationCourt: “Student discomfort with a professor’s views can prompt discussion and disapproval. But this discomfort is not grounds for the university retaliating against the professor.”SEATTLE, Dec. 19, 2025 — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today delivered a decisive victory for the First Amendment rights of public university faculty in Reges v. Cauce. Reversing a federal district court’s opinion, the Ninth Circuit held University of Washington officials violated the First Amendment when they punished Professor Stuart Reges for substituting his satirical take…

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Ask just about any federally funded researcher to describe 2025, and they use words like chaotic, demoralizing, confusing, destabilizing and transformational. “It’s been a very destabilizing year [that’s made] people question the nation’s commitment to research,” Heather Pierce, senior director for science policy at the Association of American Medical Colleges, told Inside Higher Ed. She expects 2026 to be a year of rebuilding and standard setting. Speaking of the National Institutes of Health, which calls itself the world’s largest public biomedical research funder, Pierce said the research community is expecting more major regulation and written policy changes in 2026, which…

Trying to figure out what college will actually cost can feel like chasing a moving target. Families want to plan responsibly. They want to know what feels realistic before applications go out and emotions get involved. That usually leads to a Net Price Calculator. At some point, most families land on a college website, find the calculator, and think, okay, this should help. You plug in your information, wait for the number to load, and sit with whatever pops up on the screen. Sometimes the number feels manageable. Sometimes it feels overwhelming. Sometimes it just creates more questions than answers.…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The Trump administration on Thursday filed to appeal the ruling against the federal government’s roughly $2.2 billion freeze of Harvard University’s research funding. In September, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs struck down the freeze orders, ruling the government acted unlawfully and violated the university’s First Amendment rights when targeting Harvard’s funding and attempting to force myriad policy changes at the university.  Burroughs entered a final judgment in October concluding the Trump administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act and its actions…

We’re approaching the end of a year that was at various times frightening, difficult and downright ridiculous. We hope that, despite the struggles higher education faced this year, you can still find something to be thankful for this holiday season, whether it’s generous donors making big differences for small campuses, colleges striving to improve cost transparency, or institutions supporting their communities through tough times. If not, maybe you can take some inspiration from the videos below. Here are Inside Higher Ed’s favorite holiday greetings, from the wacky to the artsy to the classy, showcasing the talents and holiday spirit of…

In a move called historic by charter advocates and shameful by opponents, Indianapolis officials reached agreement on a plan to provide all charter students with buses and close struggling schools.    The proposal, recommended to the state legislature by a panel of leaders from around the city calls for creating a powerful new government agency, the Indianapolis Public Education Corporation, handing charters a measure of control over citywide education decisions they have never had.  The corporation — Indiana’s legal term for a school district — would oversee a unified transportation system for all schools; along with the ability to decide which…