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If mono­rails have a bad name, The Simp­sons may be to blame. In an episode acclaimed for its hilar­i­ous­ness since it first aired 33 years ago, a huck­ster shows up in Spring­field and con­vinces the town to build just such a tran­sit sys­tem, which turns out to be not just sus­pi­cious­ly unnec­es­sary (at least in young Lisa’s judg­ment) but also dan­ger­ous­ly shod­dy. I watched it while grow­ing up in the sub­urbs of Seat­tle, a city that endured bit­ter­ly pro­tract­ed con­tention over whether or not to build out its own rudi­men­ta­ry mono­rail sys­tem — a World’s Fair arti­fact, like the Space Nee­dle…

Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Educators, industry groups and Democratic leaders say a federal proposal restricting diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility would harm student success initiatives, impose vague guidelines for educators and violate federal law. The comments came in public feedback on a proposed regulation from the General Services Administration that would require all federal funding recipients — including schools and colleges — to certify that they don’t use DEI programs. The public comment period closed March 30. The certification would cover programs the Trump administration calls…

Dive Brief:  The U.S. Department of Education released draft regulations Monday to overhaul the accreditation system, including by easing the pathway for new accreditors to form and requiring agencies to have standards requiring intellectual diversity among faculty.  The proposed changes are in line with President Donald Trump’s executive order in April 2025 that blasted diversity, equity and inclusion standards and directed the Education Department to resume recognition of new accrediting agencies. The agency released the draft ahead of negotiated rulemaking, a process that brings together groups in the higher education sector to hash out policy changes. The negotiated rulemaking group…

For the last nine years, we have presented an alternative Social Mobility Tournament bracket that plots the colleges invited to the men’s NCAA Division I basketball tournament by how well they help place their graduates on the path to upward mobility. Now, for the third time, we are pleased to do the same for the women’s tournament. The 2026 NCAA women’s tournament, combining a mix of expected winners and up-and-coming programs, has provided an exciting month of basketball for millions of fans across the nation. In the last few years, thanks to the athleticism and on and off the court…

For 20 years I’ve taught undergraduates: first at the University of Virginia while I was still a graduate student, then during a visiting appointment at DePaul University and now as a professor at the University of Kentucky. I’ve assigned long novels in every one of those classrooms. I’ve also listened, with something between fatigue and disbelief, to the periodic insistence that if students aren’t reading whole books anymore, the fault lies with us—the professors who have lost their nerve, softened their syllabi and confused accommodation with rigor. Across three very different institutions—elite, private urban, public flagship —I’ve encountered roughly the…

Tribal college advocates expressed concern Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Interior proposed nixing more than $150 million for tribal colleges, universities and postsecondary programs as part of President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget request. The department recommended a similar cut to the funds last year, but Congress didn’t agree to do so. The American Indian Higher Education Consortium, which represents tribal colleges and universities, said in a statement that this latest proposal “does not align with the Administration’s stated priorities to support rural America and expand access to higher education” and “removes a relatively small investment that delivers outsized…

RST: You’ve been telling the presidents I introduce you to that I’m working you like a show pony. Wrong. I’m trying to get you to be a dray horse and actually pull some weight for change. EGG: I do feel like a dray horse with you constantly shoving more stuff at me. Maybe I’m more like a donkey. RST: Don’t you mean an ass? 🤣 EGG: Rachel, it is truly unkind to make fun of an octogenarian. You know that I am barely 5 feet 5 inches tall and have to sit at the kids’ table for Thanksgiving. It is…

Listen to the article 1 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback.  No superintendent or principal is an island — and K-12 Dive wants to share the stories of the exemplary assistant principals and district leaders helping to support the nation’s schools in our sixth annual Rising Leaders spotlight. Do you know an assistant principal who has gone above and beyond in building positive school culture or driving academic achievement? Do you work with an assistant superintendent who thinks outside of the box on educational innovation or boosting enrollment and attendance? We want to…

Becoming a Voices of Change fellow empowered me to believe I could be a teacher with all my flaws — that “perfection” is not necessary. In fact, it is antithetical to good teaching. I remember sitting in our first workshop where we learned how to write a pitch and discussed what successful pitching looks like. My takeaway from that workshop was that this fellowship was going to push me in ways I’d always been afraid of, that I’d have to practice a kind of vulnerability that went deeper than what I modeled for my students. I’d have to face myself.…

Rethinking AI’s Role In Workplace Learning Artificial Intelligence is transforming workplace learning at remarkable speed. Today, courses, quizzes, and training materials can be created faster than ever. What once took days or weeks can now be produced in minutes. For many organisations, this feels like a breakthrough. It promises efficiency, scale, and lower production time. But speed is not the real challenge. The real question is this: Are we truly improving learning with AI, or simply producing more of it? This is one of the most important questions facing Learning and Development teams today. Because while AI has extraordinary potential,…