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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…

Paul Glastris & Nate Weisberg, Washington Monthly The “Do No Harm” rule codifies the idea that every college degree should make graduates better off than if they had never attended.

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The pandemic transition to fully virtual K-12 instruction during the 2020-21 school year led to fewer students going to college, according to a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. When schools moved to online classes, submission rates for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid dropped by 4.2 percentage points and first-year college enrollment fell by 2.5 percentage points, the study found. Test-taking rates for ACT also declined by 4.8 percentage points.  While FAFSA submission…

One of Shenandoah University’s early forays into collaborative online international learning (COIL) is the subject of a new paper published in the Journal of Educational Administration.  The piece is co-authored by Shenandoah Professor of Leadership Studies Catherine Dunn Shiffman, Ph.D., and her counterpart in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dina Sijamhodžić-Nadarević, Ph.D., associate professor of teaching pedagogy/religious pedagogy at the University of Sarajevo.  Their article is titled “Crossing the ocean virtually: a pilot exchange between universities in the United States and Bosnia and Herzegovina.” It focuses on how COIL could be used to support preparation for educators and educational leaders, using their…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The University of Missouri’s Student Affairs will cut off five student affinity organizations from funding beginning in July, according to the public flagship and the groups. Mizzou said in a statement that it can “no longer allocate funding or space based on protected demographic characteristics,” citing guidance from the U.S. Department of Justice. Instead of receiving designated funds, the affected organizations would have to apply next year to a resource pool shared by over 600 campus groups. The student groups…

A recent meta-analysis of 21 studies found that inquiry-based learning has a significant positive effect on student outcomes (Harleni et al., 2024). A separate meta-analysis focused on science education found the impact on critical thinking is even larger — with an effect size more than twice that of general outcomes (Arifin & Sukarmin, 2025). So, we know we need to do this, however, for us busy K-8 teachers juggling standards, testing, and too-short class periods, “inquiry-based” can feel like code for “one more thing I don’t have time for.”In this episode, Terra Tarango, Chief Education Officer at Van Andel Institute…

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Dive Brief: A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Education from enforcing a deadline for public colleges in 17 states to submit admissions data broken down by race and sex. The same court previously delayed the deadline twice. U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor concluded that the data collection was generally within the scope of the department’s legal authority, but the rushed timeline likely violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which regulates federal agencies’ rulemaking processes. The Association of American Universities and the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts have also asked to join…