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District leaders face a dual challenge: maintaining student engagement in a distracted world while also supporting teachers as they adapt to ongoing changes in classroom practices to meet evolving real-world demands and expectations for college and career readiness. To accomplish this task, there must be a shift to incorporating the durable skills that will set students up for success, no matter what their path. “With technology changing faster than ever, and the added factor of artificial intelligence in the workplace, transferable skills, such as critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and communication, have become the currency for future success,” says Doug Ferguson,…

If you work in faculty development, you have probably heard the same concern on a loop for the past year: All my students are cheating using AI. At Geogia State University, our campus teaching and learning center gets more requests for workshops on how to prevent digital dishonesty than any other topic. Throughout the fall 2025 semester, I averaged one workshop, presentation or meeting about AI and academic integrity every four workdays. University faculty are anxious, and it shows in their reactions. We have all read the stories about professors reverting to blue books or opting for early retirement to…

The widespread adoption of AI in the classroom has arrived. Students now regularly use AI-powered tools to reinforce or even introduce new concepts into their studies. That shift has academic leadership asking, “How can we provide learners with AI tools they actually want to use, while ensuring that those tools honor academic integrity and align with faculty-selected content?” The instinct may be to restrict AI, but the answer is to balance AI innovation with academic integrity. Unlike consumer AI tools, which are designed for breadth and convenience, the classroom demands precision, transparency, and pedagogical grounding. AI in education must be…

by Kathryn Skulley, The Hechinger Report April 13, 2026 When policymakers debate whether community colleges should offer bachelor’s degrees, the arguments often sound abstract: mission creep, duplication, threats to university enrollment.  Yet for the students that community colleges serve and the industries struggling to fill essential roles, community college bachelor’s degrees are not an overreach. Most community college students aspire to a bachelor’s degree, yet only a small fraction ever earn one.  That must change, because these schools are a lifeline and a connection to the workforce needed now more than ever. Community college bachelor’s programs are often half the…

by Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report April 13, 2026 CRAFTSBURY COMMON, Vt. — More than a dozen newborn lambs cavorted around a fenced-in yard beneath the scrutiny of their mothers and a few watchful students taking turns attending to them. The lambs’ successful births have been a needed bright spot at tiny Sterling College, which uses a 130-acre farm to teach agriculture and other disciplines in a part of northeastern Vermont so isolated it’s rare to see a passing car and there’s no cell service. LillyAnne Keeley, a senior, likes that remoteness. “We have a beautiful view,” said Keeley, in…

According to Mather and Scheepers (2025), providing students with feedback is one of the most important aspects for teaching and learning. However, it is not uncommon for students to avoid engaging with feedback, even when instructors invest significant time in providing detailed comments. Written/typed feedback is often overlooked, underused, or misinterpreted. If feedback is essential to learning, why do so many students fail to engage with it, and how might instructors rethink their approach?  Below are some reasons why students may ignore feedback as well as some practical tips to implement to increase the feedback view rate.   1. Timing of Feedback The timing of feedback can influence whether students engage with it. As more time passes between completing an assignment…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter State officials, activists and educators have largely shaped public dialogue about Texas’ social studies overhaul, but young people added their voices to the conversation Tuesday, calling for instruction that includes diverse perspectives and challenges them to think critically. The majority-Republican education board began last year to redesign Texas’ social studies standards, which outline what students need to learn by the time they graduate. The board plans to finalize the standards this summer, with classroom implementation expected in 2030. Up to this point, a majority of…

Scaling Student Engagement And Operations Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning are disrupting and impacting every sector. Higher education is no exception. Every university department can use these technologies to improve efficiency and boost overall student success. There are three major areas where AI can be applied in higher education: Administration. Teaching. Learning. Figure 1. AI Strategic Impact Areas in Higher Education Applying AI first in administrative areas can help reap early benefits. On the other hand, AI for teaching and learning—like virtual tutors—is still in its early stages and may take several years to become mainstream.…

How LMS Platforms Scale Learning For Teams Work today doesn’t happen in one place anymore. Teams are spread across cities, countries, and time zones. Sales teams work in the field, support teams work remotely, and new hires join from different locations. While this gives organizations flexibility and reach, it also makes learning and development more complex. How do you train everyone consistently? How do you ensure people are actually learning? And most importantly, how do you scale learning without losing control? This is where a Learning Management System (LMS) becomes essential to help you manage, track, and improve learning across…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter By the time children reach elementary school, teachers can usually predict which students will volunteer answers, speak easily in front of the class and move comfortably through discussion — and which will hesitate, look down or remain silent even when they understand. What gets discussed far less often is that this pattern rarely begins in third or fifth grade, when participation gaps become easier to see. It begins in children’s first classroom experiences, where they learn whether speaking feels safe, whether mistakes are survivable and…