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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…

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You are here: Home / Scholarships / Bettie Lott and Vera Times Public Health Scholarship 2026 (Deadline: March 15, 2026) December 17, 2025 By The FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Team Who Can Apply: Bettie Lott and Vera Times were two incredible public health nurses who devoted their lives and careers to improving community well-being. Their children, Vincent and Tracy Lott, founded BeVera Solutions LLC, a company that provides mission-critical technical and professional support services to address public health challenges. BeVera Solutions specializes in public health support services, including but not limited to epidemiology, data analysis, health communications, IT support, and technical writing.…

Australian universities must “dive headlong” into the social morass that contributed to the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, according to the head of Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation. Historian David Slucki said the sector should not react to the tragedy by steering clear of Israeli-Palestinian tensions to avoid exacerbating the trauma. “We need to grapple with it,” Slucki said. “The worst thing now would be to sort of cower into oblivion. “We need to teach about it. We need to research it. We need to talk about it, and we need to do it from a place of generosity…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will take office at a pivotal moment for New York City’s public schools. With Eric Adams leaving office, one of his most consequential education initiatives — NYC Reads — now faces an uncertain future. Its continuation will determine whether the city builds on hard-won progress in literacy or risks losing momentum just as students are beginning to benefit. For decades, too many of our children were taught to read using methods that research has shown to be ineffective. The result was predictable.…

In late 2022, when generative AI tools landed in students’ hands, classrooms changed almost overnight. Essays written by algorithms appeared in inboxes. Lesson plans suddenly felt outdated. And across the country, schools asked the same questions: How do we respond — and what comes next?Liz VociInstructional Technology SpecialistSome educators saw AI as a threat that enables cheating and undermines traditional teaching. Others viewed it as a transformative tool. But a growing number are charting a different path entirely: teaching students to work with AI critically and creatively while building essential literacy skills.The challenge isn’t just about introducing new technology. It’s…

In 2025, we took a major step forward, setting a strong course for the future. Every new or polished TalentLMS feature was shaped by our customers’ feedback, their needs, and their vision for better workplace learning. Whether it’s for internal teams or customer and partner training. More specifically, our customers asked for more speed, personalization, insight, and added ways to connect TalentLMS to their ecosystem. So we listened, collaborated with them, and invested in creating an LMS that is smarter, faster, more intuitive, and more aligned with modern learning trends. Here’s how your input directly shaped TalentLMS’s future. Category What…

Weber State was “overly cautious” in its application of the law, Landward said. DenisTangneyJr/E+/Getty Images Utah System of Higher Education Commissioner Geoffrey Landward criticized Weber State University’s efforts to censor speakers in the name of state law, KSL reported.  The university said last week it had revised its approach to enforcing the state’s anti-diversity, equity and inclusion law following several censorship controversies. Last month, Apache writer Darcie Little Badger pulled out of a speaking commitment at Weber State after the university sent her a list of prohibited words and concepts, including “bias,” “oppression” and “racial privilege.” In October, the university…

Nelson & Singh, Brown The two students are remembered for their kindness and courage, Brown President Christina Paxson wrote.