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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,…

Con­sid­er­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a tru­ly pro­le­tar­i­an art, the great Eng­lish lit­er­ary crit­ic William Emp­son once wrote, “the rea­son an Eng­lish audi­ence can enjoy Russ­ian pro­pa­gan­dist films is that the pro­pa­gan­da is too remote to be annoy­ing.” Per­haps this is why Amer­i­can artists and bohemi­ans have so often tak­en to the polit­i­cal iconog­ra­phy of far-flung regimes, in ways both roman­tic and iron­ic. One nation’s tedious social­ist real­ism is another’s rad­i­cal exot­i­ca. But do U.S. cul­tur­al exports have the same effect? One need only look at the suc­cess of our most banal brand­ing over­seas to answer in the affir­ma­tive. Yet no…

Ronald Collins, a retired law professor and longtime First Amendment scholar, has joined FIRE’s Advisory Council.Collins most recently taught at the University of Washington School of Law, where he held the Harold S. Shefelman Scholar chair. Early in his career, he clerked for Justice Hans A. Linde on the Oregon Supreme Court and served as a Supreme Court fellow under Chief Justice Warren Burger. He later spent six years as a scholar at the Newseum’s First Amendment Center in Washington, D.C.In the years since, Collins has become a leading voice on free expression. He served as book editor for SCOTUSblog…

Culture wars have distracted America’s K-12 system at the expense of students, says former U.S. Ambassador and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. On this episode of The Current, Emanuel sits down with Jon Valant, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, to diagnose what went wrong and how some schools are trying to get it right. EMANUEL: Democrats in my view, by abandoning standards and accountability, have abandoned our kids and our teachers. Republicans have basically said, here’s your voucher, go figure it out on yourself. And the truth is you can’t really address it that way. And they have…