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A federal judge on Friday blocked in 17 states the Trump administration’s demand that public colleges and universities submit detailed race- and gender-related admissions data stretching back seven years. The ruling, by U.S. District Court judge Dennis Saylor IV of Boston, was in response to a March 6 lawsuit by the attorneys general from the group of Democratic-led states. Their lawsuit argued that forcing colleges and universities to complete the new Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement survey was unlawful, “arbitrary and capricious” and exceeded the authority of the agency that approved it, the Office of Management and Budget. The administration said…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Employing student influencers is the latest strategy in the Detroit school district’s ongoing efforts to grow enrollment in city schools. District officials unveiled a plan last week to hire 23 students to share positive messages about their schools in the Detroit Public Schools Community District. The high schoolers will create and share social media content aimed at winning over prospective students and parents, as well as engaging their peers. The initiative is one of several new ideas the district is considering to reverse a 20-year…

AI Reshaping Corporate Learning: When Training Happens Most Learning and Development (L&D) teams know the feeling. A training program launches on schedule. Completion rates look solid. The LMS dashboard is green. And then—nothing changes on the floor, in the calls, or in the metrics that actually matter. This isn’t a resources problem. Organizations worldwide spend an estimated $400 billion annually on employee training. Yet research from the Learning and Development community consistently shows that learners forget up to 70% of new information within 24 hours without reinforcement. The issue isn’t investment. It’s design. For years, corporate learning has operated on…

Last week, we joined the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools for their latest convening right here in our backyard. The contrast was not lost on us as we were sitting just a few miles from the glass towers where engineers are busy building the software that is changing the way we work and learn. But if you walked into that room of superintendents and district teams, you wouldn’t have heard much talk about the latest disruptive software. There was no rush to find the next shiny device. Instead, there was a much deeper, more urgent conversation happening. These leaders…

Graham Hillard, James G. Martin Center Startling news from the world of student-loan reform: A federal intervention appears to be not only working on its own terms but producing beneficial…

In some contexts, spring rush might refer to fraternities and sororities. Here, it refers to the ways calendars fill for April and early May. As the last couple of months of the academic year—summer is its own thing—these are when the “annual” deadlines tend to converge. This is awards season, events season, annual advisory board meeting season, faculty candidate interview season and conference season, all at the same time. This is also when student academic issues—dishonesty and/or possibility of failure—come to the surface. I don’t mean that as a complaint, exactly, though a slightly more even pace across the year…

What Is Performance Management Training? Performance management training helps managers and leaders gain skills to set goals, give feedback, evaluate performance, and support employee growth. It emphasizes fair, consistent, and data-driven practices that enhance both individual and organizational results. It’s important to understand the difference between performance management training and performance appraisal training. Performance appraisal training teaches how to conduct formal evaluations, like annual reviews. In contrast, performance management training covers a wider range of topics. It includes ongoing feedback, coaching, goal alignment, and continuous development. Similarly, performance evaluation training supports structured assessments, but it’s just one part of a…

Cardona will lead a wide-ranging committee to develop recommendations on how to improve the state’s career pathways. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Former education secretary Miguel Cardona will chair a new commission in Connecticut aimed at improving the state’s career pathways system, the state announced last week. Connecticut governor Ned Lamont signed an executive order last Thursday to create the Connecticut Career Pathways Commission. The panel will develop a five-year strategic plan that includes recommendations on how state leaders can improve and expand career pathways. The end goal, according to the news release, is “that Connecticut has a modernized career pathways system…

President Trump is again asking Congress to do what it has so far refused to do: gut federal research agencies that provide billions of dollars to colleges and universities. And he’s still pushing to eliminate the Education Department, another move lawmakers have rejected. The president released his budget request for the next fiscal year Friday. It shows he hasn’t fully backed down from proposals he presented to the Republican-controlled Congress for this fiscal year, most of which were rejected. However, he has walked back his requests in some areas, including reducing his proposed slash to the National Institutes of Health to…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Each day, hundreds of rural south Texas high schoolers wake before sunrise to board vans that bump for miles over back roads, crossing ranch land and thickets of brush. Their destinations aren’t their local schools, but distant districts where specialized academies offer them training in nursing, teaching and welding, along with associate degrees. The students’ home districts — Agua Dulce, Premont, Brooks County, Freer and Benavides — used to operate separately. They had a shrinking student population, were unable to provide much career and technical…