OPINION: My students fulfill the promise of higher education every day, but their future is in jeopardy 

As a college president, I see the promise of higher education fulfilled every day. Many students at my institution, Whittier College, are the first in their families to attend a university. Some ...

Posted 2025-09-01 05:00:00

OPINION: AI can be a great equalizer, but it remains out of reach for millions of Americans; we cannot let that continue

Back to School with AI In an age defined by digital transformation, access to reliable, high-speed internet is not a luxury; it is the bedrock of opportunity. It impacts the school classroom, the ...

Posted 2025-09-07 05:03:00

OPINION: Schools cannot teach AI literacy without a way to measure it

Back to School with AI Everywhere you look, someone is telling students and workers to “learn AI.”  It’s become the go-to advice for staying employable, relevant and prepared for the ...

Posted 2025-09-07 05:05:00

A largely invisible role of international students: Fueling the innovation economy

PITTSBURGH — Saisri Akondi had already started a company in her native India when she came to Carnegie Mellon University to get a master’s degree in biomedical engineering, business and ...

Posted 2025-08-31 05:00:00

A gender gap in STEM widened during the pandemic. Schools are trying to make up lost ground

IRVING, Texas — Crowded around a workshop table, four girls at de Zavala Middle School puzzled over a Lego machine they had built. As they flashed a purple card in front of a light sensor, ...

Posted 2025-09-05 05:00:00

Landmark free preschool program reaches too few kids

In the 1980s, a public interest law group sued the state of New Jersey, saying that the way it funded education left its low-income, urban school districts at a disadvantage compared to ...

Posted 2025-09-04 05:00:00

Nation’s Report Card at risk, researchers say

This story was reported by and originally published by APM Reports in connection with its podcast Sold a Story: How Teach Kids to Read Went So Wrong. When voters elected Donald ...

Posted 2025-09-04 05:00:00

Colleges struggle to make manufacturing training hot again 

ELYRIA, Ohio — Nolan Norman had no idea what microelectronic manufacturing entailed when his adviser at Midview High suggested he take the school’s new class on it last year.  Yet once he ...

Posted 2025-08-27 05:00:00

State preschool program helps kids catch up — but many are missing out 

This story about Abbott districts was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger ...

Posted 2025-09-02 05:00:00

Students can’t get into basic college courses, dragging out their time in school

Ryan Arnoldy started community college with the goal of eventually transferring to a four-year university and getting a degree in chemical engineering. Soon Arnoldy started running up against the ...

Posted 2025-09-02 05:00:00