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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…

Recent events suggest that university leaders may be falling into a troubling new pattern: firing tenure-line faculty first before settling with them later. While this approach may serve institutions’ short-term needs, it inflicts profound harm on the faculty who are affected—and it also promises to cause long-term damage to the universities themselves. In fall 2025, academics were among the many types of workers who discovered that their workplace speech rights were not what they had seemed to be when a number of professors (as many as 40, according to one estimate) lost their jobs for social media commentary discussing the…

Key points: District leaders across the country are grappling with a deepening crisis: Student mental and behavioral health needs are growing more complex. In a recent national survey, 58 percent of school-based providers reported that student mental health has worsened, a noticeable jump from the previous year (46 percent). With needs rising and staff stretched thin, many districts are struggling just to keep pace. Leaders looking to fix these issues are quickly met with the realization that no single program, person, or department can meet this moment alone. What students need most is consistency in the form of caring adults,…

The need to tighten purse strings and enrollment issues drove plans in March to cut hundreds of jobs and programs. Amid a confluence of challenges that include state and federal funding concerns, universities are also reviewing or cutting programs that have low enrollment. Several states have passed laws in recent years requiring colleges to slash programs that don’t meet certain enrollment thresholds. Here’s a look at campus job and program cuts announced or enacted last month. The New School Grappling with a projected $48 million budget deficit, the private university in New York City plans to cut up to 15 percent of…