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Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Why the Classic Learning Test, which embraces Aristotle but spurns calculators, has caught Indiana’s eye A test that relies on classic Western texts and bans calculators for math will soon play a role in assessing how well Indiana students and schools are doing. Since February, Indiana has expanded the use of the Classic Learning Test in two key ways. First, a new law requires state colleges and universities to consider CLT scores to the same extent that they would consider SAT or ACT scores for…

6. Keep Your Long-Term Career Goals in Mind Sometimes the best way to further your education while earning an income is to work within the area of your long-term career goal. For example, if you’re aiming for a career in finance, try to find a job in banking. If you plan to work in a hospital, see about a position at your local doctor’s office. The key here is to ensure your education and job link up. This gives you real-world career experiences you can draw on later. 7. Don’t Be Too Proud To Ask For Help For those who…

Free speech has long been a cornerstone of democratic society. But today, its principles face increasing pressure. Around the world, governments are expanding speech restrictions in the name of combating misinformation, hate speech, and extremism, while new technologies make it easier to monitor and control public discourse. Many free speech advocates warn that these efforts risk eroding democracy itself. Joining the show to discuss this “global free speech recession” is Jacob Mchangama, a senior fellow at FIRE and the founder and executive director of The Future of Free Speech at Vanderbilt University, and Jeff Kosseff, a senior fellow at The…

Most undergraduate research projects never leave the lab. But the work of College of Charleston astrophysics majors Eva Godwin and Gael Gonzalez is heading a long way from campus: to the International Space Station. It will travel aboard a resupply flight for the Northrop Grumman Cygnus-24 cargo mission, which is scheduled to launch this week from the Kennedy Space Center. The fourth-year students weren’t just assistants on the project; for the past two years they’ve been deeply embedded in every phase of the mission, from concept development and fundraising to modeling, testing and final integration ahead of the flight. “It…

Five Deployment Mistakes That Kill Enterprise VR Training The business case for Virtual Reality (VR) training is no longer theoretical. Organizations that deploy immersive learning report knowledge retention improvements of 50-90%, significant reductions in training errors, and measurable decreases in onboarding time. The technology works. The ROI is real. So why do so many enterprise VR training programs fail? After nearly a decade of delivering enterprise VR training projects—working with organizations ranging from global automotive manufacturers to major utility companies—I have seen the same patterns repeat themselves. The failures rarely stem from the technology itself. They stem from how organizations…

Noah Kirsch, Guardian As teachers eagerly adopt its free lesson plans and the White House boosts its videos, PragerU is intent on one goal: attracting young people to conservatism

After international student enrollment crashed in fall 2025, a report from Shorelight, an international education firm, illuminates one factor that led to that decline: a bump in F-1 visa rejections, especially from a handful of countries that typically supply large numbers of international students.  Shorelight’s annual report on visa refusals showed that denials reached a decade high of 35 percent worldwide in 2025, exceeding the previous peak in 2020. Those refusals were mainly concentrated in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of all F-1 visa requests from Africans were rejected, up from 43 percent in…

The Real Question Isn’t Speed—It’s Reliability The actual question for L&D managers is no longer “Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) create content?” but “Can we trust what it creates?” The Governance Gap In AI-Driven eLearning Artificial Intelligence is quickly becoming a co-creator in the development of content in the field of eLearning. However the way in which most organizations are approaching this is through a traditional governance system that was used in the development of content created by humans. This has created a crucial gap. Artificial Intelligence has the potential of generating a lot of content in a short period, but…

In a public hearing on Thursday, Universities of Wisconsin regents stood by their decision to fire system President Jay Rothman, the Associated Press and other news outlets reported. Regents Timothy Nixon and Amy Bogost also offered details on why he was fired, telling lawmakers that multiple factors led to Tuesday’s vote to fire Rothman. Nixon alleged that he failed to address issues such as artificial intelligence with any urgency, sought to restrict public board discussions and open records, tried to limit member interactions with lawmakers, and gave himself credit for accomplishments that were driven by team effort. Bogost, the board…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Sacramento City Unified and La Mesa-Spring Valley school districts and Taft College in California are among six educational institutions in the U.S. that had civil rights settlements terminated by the U.S. Department of Education on Monday, according to the Associated Press. The agreements, negotiated by previous administrations, were meant to uphold protections for transgender students. Now that they have been terminated, the colleges and school districts are no longer obligated to continue measures such as faculty training or allowing students to use the bathrooms, names or…