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Are States Equipped to Track Students’ Paths From Classroom to Career?
The data systems states use to track students’ progress over time from pre-K to career have taken on new importance […]
November 18, 2025
Can Messaging Apps Like Discord Facilitate Student Learning? What Educators Should Know
While some students still meet up in person after school to prepare for a test or do homework together, many […]
November 18, 2025
How Educated Neoliberals Built the Homelessness Crisis—and Why HUD’s New Cuts Will Make It Worse
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development has quietly announced one of the most drastic federal rollbacks in homelessness […]
November 18, 2025
Education Department outsources program management to other agencies
Listen to the article 1 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Editor’s note: […]
November 18, 2025
InsightsEDU 2026: The Sessions Higher Ed Can’t Afford to Ignore
Higher ed is no longer inching towards change; it’s being forced to confront it. Demographic shifts, economic pressures and the rise of AI have exposed the […]
November 18, 2025
Standardized Tests: 5 Common FAQs Every Student and Parent Should Know
Around “10-40% of students experience some level of test anxiety” (Wood, 2016). Taking a standardized test (or a few) impacts […]
November 18, 2025
UK university censors human rights research on abuses in China
Last year, FIRE launched the Free Speech Dispatch, a regular series covering new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the […]
November 18, 2025
Why PR May Be One of Higher Ed’s Most Urgent Strategies Right Now
Trust in colleges and universities is slipping. Public narratives about higher education are being shaped without institutional input. At the […]
November 18, 2025
Special Education Services At Risk Under Department of Education Cuts
Susan Popkin has a brother-in-law who was kept out of traditional education until high school. David Bateman has a brother-in-law […]
November 18, 2025