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Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter PROVIDENCE — It was supposed to be a joyful event. But a Christmas tree and menorah lighting scheduled for late Sunday afternoon at Lippitt Memorial Park was turned into a vigil for the victims of Saturday’s shooting at Brown University. Despite the mid-20-degree weather and falling snow in Providence, over 200 people gathered to light candles to honor the two students who were killed and nine others who were wounded inside the Barus and Holley engineering building. Councilor Sue AnderBois began the holiday event at…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has launched a new earnings indicator for students as part of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) process, according to a press release. Using existing federal data, the indicator provides students and their families with information about a school’s post-graduation earnings, says the release. Of 162 North Carolina institutions in the database, 27 are flagged as having “lower earnings” and 13 do not have available data. Most of the flagged institutions are trade schools, but a few…

How Can Data Analytics Help You Boost Learner Engagement? In a time of limited resources and rising demands, L&D teams must demonstrate the value of their training initiatives if they want stakeholders to continue investing in them. The most important indicators of a training program’s success are learner engagement and training impact. But how can we be certain that a training program is succeeding in these areas? The answer is straightforward. Businesses need to prioritize data-driven learning, where all decisions are based on carefully collected analytics. In this article, we will discuss common engagement hurdles that businesses face as well…

You are here: Home / Scholarships / 2026 Lyndsey Scott Coding+ Scholarship (Deadline: May 1, 2026) December 16, 2025 By The FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Team Who Can Apply: The computer science field is one of the fastest growing and most lucrative industries, but there’s a stark lack of diversity when it comes to both people and ideas. The Lyndsey Scott Coding+ Scholarship will support the next generation of multi-faceted computer scientists, with a special focus on coders, by providing financial assistance for their degree. The goal is to uplift a diverse group of students who want to combine computer science with…

?si=RT8MgKeGcVzX6p9X How many peo­ple have ever walked the earth? Good ques­tion, even if you’ve nev­er quite pon­dered it before. Accord­ing to the Pop­u­la­tion Ref­er­ence Bureau, a non-prof­it research orga­ni­za­tion, if you trav­el back to 8000 B.C.E., the world pop­u­la­tion stood at about 5 mil­lion. By 1 C.E., the num­ber climbs to 300 mil­lion, before grad­u­al­ly increas­ing to 500 mil­lion in 1650. Once we get beyond the plagues of the medieval peri­od, our pop­u­la­tion explodes, reach­ing the 1 bil­lion mark in 1800 and then 8 bil­lion in 2022. Tak­en togeth­er, an esti­mat­ed 117 bil­lion peo­ple have col­lec­tive­ly lived on our plan­et,…

The statewide talent marketplaces should include credential registries, learning and employment records, and skills-based job description generators. ATHVisions/E+/Getty Images The Department of Education launched a new $15 million grant competition to promote the development of what it calls statewide “Talent Marketplaces,” or digital systems that track the credentials, employment records and skills of students and graduates. “Talent Marketplaces give learners, earners, and employers a clearer way to validate skills, opening doors to stackable credentials and stronger recognition of prior learning and work experience,” Nick Moore, the acting assistant secretary for the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education said in a…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Seclusion of students in schools would be prohibited and certain restraint practices would be banned under bicameral and bipartisan legislation filed Dec. 12 in the House and Senate. The bill would provide grants to states to train school personnel to address school behaviors with evidence-based, proactive strategies. It also calls for more transparency and oversight to prevent the abuse of students, and it would require states to monitor the law’s implementation. About 105,700 public school students were physically restrained, mechanically…

Listen to the article 9 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Pierre Orbe didn’t intend to become an educator. Inspired by the experiences of his older brother, who is on the autism spectrum, Orbe originally planned to become a medical doctor with a focus on neurobiology. In 2001, however, he took a “detour” into education, teaching science at New York City’s public Fashion Industries High School and Talent Unlimited High School.  “​​I was studying to go to med school after I graduated with my degree in neurobiology, and my father had carried me…

Anuja Uppuluri used to spend a lot of time scrolling social media apps dictated by algorithms designed to keep users glued to their screens no matter how mind-numbing the content. “I always had something else that I could be doing or wanted to be doing, but I was choosing to watch TikTok videos for five hours,” said Uppuluri, who completed a bachelor’s degree in information systems at Carnegie Mellon University in May. “And then by the end of it I couldn’t remember anything that I had watched.” Uppuluri, who now works as a machine learning engineer for Anthropic, sought to…

Elkind et al., ProPublica An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of…