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Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Education is continuing to push for artificial intelligence use in classrooms through newly finalized priorities and definitions for districts and colleges applying for any of the agency’s discretionary grant programs.  The department’s final rule, issued Monday, said it will prioritize applications for projects that aim to expand the understanding of AI or the appropriate and ethical use of AI in education.  Within those parameters, proposals that call for integrating AI literacy skills into teaching and learning practices that improve student outcomes will be given more weight, according to the rule.  Dive Insight: Under the…

?si=sPXB5teJO7wsm71F The Pacif­ic Pal­isades fire of Jan­u­ary 25 destroyed much of that coastal Los Ange­les neigh­bor­hood, but it some­how spared the Charles and Ray Eames house. Any­one who’s paid it a vis­it, or at least pored over the many pho­tos of it in exis­tence, knows that it’s more than a pre­served work of Cal­i­for­nia mod­ernism once inhab­it­ed by a famed pair of hus­band-and-wife design­ers. In truth, it’s more like a world, or at least a world­view, made domes­tic. From the out­side, one first notices the clean, vague­ly Japan­ese lines, the sharp angles, and the planes of Mon­dri­an col­or. Once inside,…

Key points: Schools have seen rising problems with student behavior since the pandemic. For too many K-12 districts, these student behavior challenges are leading to violence against teachers. According to a survey from the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Psychological Association (APA), 80 percent of teachers experienced at least one incident of verbal or threatening violence from students during the 2021 to 2022 school year and 56 percent experienced incidents of physical violence from students.  Violence against teachers in the workplace contributes to issues like burnout and some educators leaving the profession altogether. To support teachers in doing…

Higher education is under siege, and not only from the outside. In recent years, colleges and universities have faced mounting external pressure on academic freedom from legislative bodies seeking to ban certain books, restrict curriculum and defund programs deemed ideologically inconvenient. These threats are real and well documented and must be met with a vigorous defense. But in the heated discourse over who is attacking the academy from without, we have been far too quiet about another threat operating from within: the gap between what faculty say they believe about teaching and what actually happens when the classroom door closes.…

Dive Brief: Gifts to U.S. colleges rose to an estimated $78.8 billion in fiscal 2025, a 4% year-over-year increase, according to the latest annual study from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.  Although the increase was “just enough to keep up with inflation,” the growth reflects “continued trust that donors place in educational institutions,” CASE said in its report.  Growth was uneven across regions, donor types and other factors. For instance, alumni donors shrank in number even though their total giving increased 10.9%, indicating that a fewer number of donors gave higher-dollar gifts. Dive Insight: The higher education…

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Institutional members of six higher education associations, along with six private nonprofit colleges, will now have until April 24 to submit extensive applicant and admissions data broken down by race and sex to the U.S. Department of Education, a federal judge ruled Monday.  The ruling covers the following higher education groups and colleges:  Association of American Universities, which has 69 U.S. members.  Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts, which has 58 members.  Connecticut Conference of Independent Colleges, which has 14…

Jennifer Kabbany, The College Fix ‘Staff titles have changed, and some diversity programs and offices have been rebranded, but much of UM’s commitment to advance DEI campus-wide remains robust.’

Editors, Washington Post About two-thirds of grades at Harvard College last school year were A’s. That doesn’t count A-minuses, which were another 18 percent, meaning fewer than one in six…

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