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Key takeaways The discussion highlighted growing concern that global development efforts are losing focus and momentum. Mottley underscored that longstanding priorities such as access to health, education, and water remain underfunded, even as official development assistance declines, and financing terms remain misaligned with long-term needs. Mohammed emphasized that the foundational principles of the sustainable development agenda—including multilateral cooperation and shared responsibility—are being challenged, with partnerships weakening and global governance structures under strain. Both speakers pointed to the increasing frequency of crises, including climate shocks and geopolitical conflicts, as compounding vulnerabilities and limiting countries’ ability to respond. Looking ahead, the conversation…

When the first week of accreditation rule making began last Monday, Education Under Secretary Nicholas Kent made one thing clear—he and his staff were firmly committed to “implementing bold reform.”  “We are open to new ideas,” the under secretary said, but, “to those who say the changes we are pursuing would upend higher education, I say, ‘Yes, that is the point.’” Now that the first of two weeklong sessions is over, many higher education policy analysts and legal experts say Kent’s opening remarks set the course for the discussions that followed. Some observers say the department’s proposals are nebulous and…

Some school districts, including ones in Maine, New Mexico, Iowa and Oregon, are shifting to standards-based grading, where students are graded on the skills and concepts they learn instead of points accumulated from assignments and tests throughout the school year. Jerrid Kruse, a professor of education at Drake University, studies how people learn and teach science, and standards-based grading is one aspect of this work. Jerrid Kruse discusses the differences between standards-based grading and traditional grading in K-12 classrooms. The Conversation has collaborated with SciLine to bring you highlights from the discussion, edited for brevity and clarity. What is standards-based…

Why Is AI Consulting On The Rise? According to recent market research, the global AI consulting market is projected to grow at a 28.8% CAGR from 2024 to 2029, reflecting the rapid acceleration of enterprise AI adoption and the expanding role of consulting partners in digital transformation initiatives. AI consulting is now one of the fastest-growing service categories in the enterprise technology landscape, driven by pressure to operationalize generative AI, improve data maturity, and modernize legacy systems. Many companies invest in AI consulting services with high expectations, but results vary widely depending on scope, readiness, and execution quality. In practice,…

The accountability measure was first negotiated by a rule-making committee in January. Education Department screenshot The Department of Education released its third and final set of regulations related to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act for public comment Friday.  This proposal fleshes out a new accountability metric designed to test the return on investment of each degree program at more than 4,000 colleges and universities. (The previous two—for which public comment has already closed—outlined new graduate student loan caps and an expansion of the Pell Grant for short-term job training programs.)  If the regulations are finalized, undergraduate programs would be…

Rethinking Leadership Development From Scratch Artificial Intelligence is everywhere in Learning and Development right now, but most of the conversation is still focused on the wrong things: speed and efficiency. Faster content creation. Automated training. Scalable delivery. That’s all useful, but it’s also missing the point. Leadership development has never really been about content. It’s about judgment. It’s about behavior. It’s about what someone does in a moment where the answer isn’t obvious. That’s exactly where AI is starting to matter: not because it replaces leadership development, but because it’s forcing us to rethink how it actually works. The Limits…

Ryan Griffiths ’14 and wife, Alicia, co-founded Pursue Movement Strength & Mobility Development in Peterborough, New Hampshire with a clear mission: bridge the gap between injury rehabilitation and strength training through education. “Our goal is to prevent injuries where we can and rehab those we can’t,” Ryan said in an April 14, 2026 article in the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript. “We want to catch an issue before it’s too far gone.” Ryan, an Army veteran and Doctor of Physical Therapy graduate from Shenandoah, focuses on teaching clients how their bodies work — how bones, muscles, tendons, and ligaments move together — so…

Harvey C. Mansfield, New York Post Universities should be places of rigorous debate. But Harvard has become a place where there’s only one right answer.

Community colleges are often an entry point to higher education for first-generation and low-income students. But credit loss and credit inefficiency can derail students’ progress toward transferring to a four-year institution, adding extra courses, time and cost on the path to a bachelor’s degree. To address this, the City University of New York created Transfer Explorer, or T-REX, a public-facing tool that shows how courses transfer across the system’s 20 undergraduate colleges and which apply to specific degree requirements. Launched in 2020, the tool is designed for students, advisers and faculty and aims to reduce fragmented information and inconsistent advising.…

Last summer, the U.S. announced that it would withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) by the end of 2026, prompting a wave of speculation on which countries would fill its empty seats. China has been at the top of the list, given its economic power, growing role in global diplomacy, and investment and leadership in AI. Speculation is now coming to fruition. On April 3, UNESCO appointed Professor Qun Chen of China as the next Assistant Director-General for Education, who “brings more than 30 years of combined academic and executive leadership experience.” This is just…