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Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey said in a statement that the scrapping provisions of the agreements would remove “unnecessary and unlawful burdens” that previous administration placed on schools and colleges. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee The Trump administration said Monday that it was rescinding several resolution agreements the government had previously reached with colleges and K–12 school districts to end civil rights investigations. The six agreements mentioned in the Education Department’s news release concern the rights of transgender students. Officials said portions of the agreements are being rescinded but didn’t offer more specifics. “Previous administrations distorted…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Universal pre-K can slow K-12 enrollment declines in public schools and build stability in the early grades, according to a paper released late last month by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research organization. The District of Columbia, for example, offers universal pre-K starting with 3-year-olds. The Urban Institute’s analysis found that 3-year-old pre-K participants were 35 percentage points more likely to stay in D.C.’s public schools through kindergarten, and they were 18 percentage points more likely to remain at the…

How To Use AI In EdTech Without Losing Trust Most EdTech companies treat their AI usage like a trade secret. They quietly use Large Language Models to generate content, avoid mentioning it publicly, and hope no one asks too many questions. The instinct is understandable; there is a stigma around AI-generated educational content, and for good reason. But secrecy is the wrong response to a legitimate concern. Some teams have started taking the opposite approach: publishing their full editorial processes, including exactly how and where AI is used, on dedicated pages anyone can read. Platforms have made their entire editorial…

Kentucky State University students and alumni successfully lobbied state lawmakers to soften plans for strict oversight over the institution’s programs and spending and a mandated pivot towards applied learning. But the bill the state’s General Assembly passed last week will still exert significant fiscal control over the historically Black land-grant institution while it stabilizes its finances and reconfigures as a polytechnic. Lawmakers argue that ramping up oversight for the cash-strapped institution is better than the alternative they previously considered among themselves—shuttering it altogether. Kentucky State supporters are counting the final iteration of the bill as a tentative win. Students and…

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The Ballmer Group has donated $77 million to two California State University campuses to improve mental health services in the Los Angeles area. The investment company, which makes grants to boost economic mobility for children and families, awarded $48 million to Cal State LA to train more than 1,000 new counselors and social workers to help alleviate the region’s youth mental health crisis, particularly in East L.A. In addition, the firm donated $29 million to California State University, Dominguez Hills, to educate hundreds of new mental health professionals to serve children and families in South L.A. The gift to Cal…

“If Youth, through­out all his­to­ry, had had a cham­pi­on to stand up for it; to show a doubt­ing world that a child can think; and, pos­si­bly, do it prac­ti­cal­ly; you would­n’t con­stant­ly run across folks today who claim that ‘a child don’t know any­thing.’ ” Ranked along­side the oth­er notable open­ing sen­tences of Amer­i­can lit­er­a­ture, this falls some­what short of, say, “Call me Ish­mael.” The entire nov­el that fol­lows is writ­ten in the same odd­ly stilt­ed, cir­cum­loc­u­tive prose, and a read­er who skips the author’s intro­duc­tion may not per­ceive just what has set it askew for some time. They’d also have…

Frank Bruni, The New York Times We’re supposed to give students a map. I don’t even know the terrain.

Join our zero2eight Substack community for more discussion about the latest news in early care and education. Sign up now. This story was originally reported by Lauren Nutall of The 19th. ARLINGTON, TEXAS — In early December, drilling resumed near Mother’s Heart Learning Center. Newly installed gas wells dot property at 2020 S. Watson Road, less than one mile from the day care. One day in December, the sound of fracking machinery was so cacophonous that children couldn’t play outdoors. For gas companies and stakeholders, the project is poised to be an economic windfall. But many Arlington residents and experts…

Artificial intelligence isn’t coming to education—it’s already here, reshaping how we work and what our students need to know. A friend recently asked me, “Vicki, how is vibe coding different from what we’ve always done?” It is very different but really exciting when we realize it is something all of us can do!In this show we talk about vibe coding, how I’m using Claude Cowork (agentic AI), and safety issues for the AI age. I also prompt a conversation about what students need to know in the AI age.As I talk to recent college grads who have lost their jobs…