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As federal and state legislation swirls over the usage of cellphones and personal devices in classrooms, there is a renewed push for another form of technology: surveillance cameras. Legislators in Florida, Iowa, Maryland, South Carolina and Tennessee introduced video surveillance bills this year, proposing placing cameras into self-contained special education classrooms, which are rooms solely for students with special needs. The move comes as a handful of states – Louisiana, West Virginia, Georgia and Alabama – adopted the legislation over the last decade in an attempt to curb harmful physical practices. That includes teachers using restraints on students with behavioral…

Suzanne Blake, Newsweek The programs targeted for deep cuts are designed to help low‑income, first‑generation and underrepresented students.

Key points: As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly reshapes how work gets done, educators are being forced to rethink what students need to succeed after graduation. New research from the Burning Glass Institute and the AI Education Project shows that generative AI is reshaping the skills students need in the workforce, placing greater emphasis on human capabilities such as judgment and reasoning. In other words, while technology can generate information and automate tasks, people still need to evaluate options, weigh tradeoffs, and determine what to do next. These are decision-making skills–and demand for them is rising. Recent research underscores just how…

How Do Leading AI Companies Influence The Global Market? Artificial Intelligence is quickly becoming a core part of enterprise strategy. Nearly 80% of large companies now use AI in real operations, showing that businesses are moving beyond testing and making AI a practical tool for growth. In this environment, the leading AI companies are those helping organizations adopt AI in ways that deliver real results, not just ideas. Large organizations are investing in AI to save time, reduce costs, and improve innovation. AI now touches many parts of business, from automating processes to improving customer service and helping leaders make…

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…