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Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter For a small school district, recruiting and retaining educators is a never-ending challenge, especially when competing against large districts with broader revenue bases and better salaries. It’s simple economics — when pay increases, the talent follows. This feeling of frustration is one that leaders at New York’s Clyde-Savannah Central School District know well. Situated between Rochester and Syracuse, this rural district of 750 students is often seen as a stepping stone by educators. Many new teachers get a few years under their belt, then take…

Behavioral health programs may be especially compatible with earn-and-learn strategies as the federal government and some individual states adopt stricter, measured-value accountability frameworks. Photo illustration by Inside Higher Ed | SDI Productions/E+/Getty Images The country’s only nonprofit accredited university dedicated to apprenticeship degrees is opening a health-care college, it announced Thursday. Reach University, which launched in 2020, has thus far been focused on education, helping incumbent workers in K–12 schools earn degrees to become teachers while they continue to work full-time, typically as paraeducators. Just as Reach’s debt-free teacher apprenticeship model is designed to address a critical shortage of educators,…

Key points: While nearly every industry is racing to integrate artificial intelligence, most schools are still teaching high school math the way it’s been done for decades–rooted in instructional material that is abstract, disconnected, and detached from the world students actually live in. It’s no wonder that so many students decide early on that math “isn’t for them.” The way we’ve structured math instruction makes it hard for them to see why it matters. Our standards were built for a university pipeline, not for the realities of a dynamic economy that values creativity, problem-solving, and the ability to ask the…

Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A West Virginia law signed April 1 lets school districts design academic calendars around instructional hours rather than days, giving them flexibility to move to a four-day school week.  On the other hand, in Louisiana, lawmakers are contemplating a bill that would mandate a five-day school week for districts, with exceptions for those with the highest performance level and those operating on a four-day schedule before the end of last year.  And in Texas’ Liberty Hill Independent School District, the board of…

Frank Bruni, NYT It’s sweetly customary for college students filing out of a seminar room or lecture hall to thank the professor who has just finished jabbering at them, as if all that verbiage…

Public trust in higher education rebounded slightly in the last year but remains at historic lows. And presidents know it: According to Inside Higher Ed’s 2026 Survey of College and University Presidents with Hanover Research, just 16 percent of leaders think higher ed has been at least moderately effective in responding to declining public trust—a modest increase from last year’s 8 percent. Just 2 percent of presidents say higher ed has been highly effective at addressing this issue. In a parallel finding, 2 percent of presidents believe that higher ed has been highly effective in addressing the widening education divide in the U.S. electorate,…

No art enthu­si­ast’s vis­it to the Unit­ed King­dom would be com­plete with­out days at the British Muse­um, the Tate, the V&A and the Nation­al Gallery. The fact that all those respect­ed insti­tu­tions are in Lon­don con­sti­tutes a plau­si­ble excuse nev­er to stray out­side the cap­i­tal. But that cap­i­tal is sur­round­ed, lest we for­get, by not just a whole coun­try, but a whole Unit­ed King­dom’s worth of coun­tries. Each region of Eng­land has its own muse­ums and gal­leries worth vis­it­ing, and so do Scot­land, Wales, and North­ern Ire­land. But why just vis­it muse­ums and gal­leries? Uni­ver­si­ties, libraries, town halls, hos­pi­tals, homes:…

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Enrollment at public colleges outpaced state and local support in fiscal 2025, leading to a 1% decrease in per-student funding compared to the prior year, according to the annual State Higher Education Finance report released Thursday.  State and local appropriations for public higher education rose to $130.7 billion in fiscal 2025, a 2.6% increase over the prior year after adjusting for inflation. However, full-time equivalent enrollment rose 3.6% during that period to 10.8 million students — surpassing the gains in public funding. …

The war with Iran is throwing the Middle East into turmoil. Missiles and drones dominate the headlines, but another casualty is emerging: the global university. In a nearly unprecedented move, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated that U.S. universities in the Middle East are “legitimate targets” following reported U.S.-led attacks on two universities in Iran. Another attack since then targeted Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, one of Iran’s most prestigious institutions. Over the past two decades, universities from across the globe (including many from the U.S.) have planted campuses throughout the Gulf. Beginning in the early 2000s, they opened…

Unification Under One Global Brand The organizations shaping the future of learning are those that can combine world-class expertise with the scale to deliver it globally. Today, three of them become one: Liberate Global. EI Design, MPS Europa, and Liberate Learning formally unite under a single global identity, bringing together nearly three decades of combined expertise serving Fortune 500 companies, education institutions, government clients, and some of the world’s most respected L&D teams globally. The story behind this unification is one of deliberate, patient ambition. In 2018, MPS acquired Tata Interactive Systems, a company with close to 30 years in…