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By: Alin Bennett Reality Meets Possibility On the second morning of an Education Reimagined Ecosystem Lab site visit to Colorado, our group gathered inside a small learning community called La Luz. What struck us immediately was the intentionality of the environment. The learning space was intimate, relational, and deeply connected to the identities and aspirations of the young people in the community. As we moved through learning experiences inside and beyond La Luz’s home base, we saw young people engaged not in isolated assignments but in real-world work—building projects, exploring community spaces, and learning alongside adults who functioned less like…

When we think of silence, we think of med­i­ta­tive stretch­es of calm: hikes through desert­ed for­est paths, an ear­ly morn­ing sun­set before the world awakes, a stay­ca­tion at home with a good book. But we know oth­er silences: awk­ward silences, omi­nous silences, and—in the case of John Cage’s infa­mous con­cep­tu­al piece 4’33”—a mys­ti­fy­ing silence that asks us to lis­ten, not to noth­ing, but to every­thing. Instead of focus­ing our aur­al atten­tion, Cage’s for­mal­ized exer­cise in lis­ten­ing dis­pers­es it, to the ner­vous coughs and squeak­ing shoes of a rest­less audi­ence, the cease­less ebb and flow of traf­fic and breath­ing, the ambi­ent white…

For a few years, we’ve been talking about marketing and communications needing a seat at the table discussing the product. That marketing needs to be involved earlier and operationalized into institutional decision-making. I am a big proponent of this idea. I’ve said the same thing myself. But lately, I’m thinking we are not addressing the root and we’re going about this the wrong way. Before we can ask for a seat at the table, we have to answer an essential question: What, exactly, is the product? For a consumer brand, the product is well defined. Take Nike as an easy…

Listen to the article 9 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback.  There are people who fear that artificial intelligence will render human beings irrelevant in the workforce. Denise Kleinrichert is not one of those people. A management professor at San Francisco State University, Kleinrichert predicts that the use of AI will become as common as the use of cell phones, and that organizational departments to oversee AI’s use will become as ordinary as human resources departments.  “Is it going to completely replace all human beings? I can’t foresee that in our lifetime. Or…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moves to revamp the Clean School Bus Program, the agency has completed or is actively addressing 11 recommendations its Office of Inspector General made to improve implementation and oversight of the $5 billion in grants aimed at helping school districts purchase eco-friendly buses.  The office’s latest findings follow a review of five of its previous reports investigating challenges with the Clean School Bus Program — in which two key issues identified were EPA’s application…

Matt Stewart, RCEd Today’s job market is exceptionally tough for both new entrants to the workforce and the companies that traditionally hire them.

by Kelly Field, The Hechinger Report April 7, 2026 CRANSTON, R.I. — Before he landed in prison three years ago for selling drugs, Joe worked on and off as a construction laborer. In his free time, he’d do little projects around the house, his youngest daughter by his side.  “I always liked working with my hands,” said Joe, whose last name is being withheld at the request of prison leadership in order to protect his privacy. “And she liked to help.” So when prison leaders offered him a spot in a construction preapprenticeship program earlier this year, Joe, who is…

Comments on the administration’s proposed regulations to expand the Pell Grant to cover short-term job training programs are due April 8. Here’s our recap of how to write and submit a public comment. Your high school government teacher may have taught you how a bill becomes a law, but did they teach you how to write an impactful public comment on federal regulations? Our guess at Inside Higher Ed is, probably not. But last week, the Education Department published the first in what will likely be a series of highly consequential regulatory proposals related to the largest overhaul of federal…

Mark Lieberman, Education Week The president again wants lawmakers to consider billions in K-12 spending cuts and program eliminations.

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday that its Office for Civil Rights is rescinding parts of resolution agreements resulting from Title IX investigations under previous Democratic administrations.  The resolution agreements were meant to advance LGBTQ+ inclusion, as the Obama and Biden administrations interpreted the law barring sex discrimination in education programs as including LGBTQ+ students in its protections.  “Previous Administrations distorted the law contrary to its plain meaning to police discrimination on the basis of ‘gender identity,’ not sex, and imposed…