Talks with Harvard are ongoing and despite hints that some kind of compromise might be reached soon, nothing has been formally announced yet. Meanwhile, the Trump administration does seem to be turning its attention toward California. Yesterday Trump’s education department said California was in violation of federal civil rights law. The Trump administration declared on...
Middle-class Democrats are slowly grasping–way too slowly–that they have created a monster that will eventually eat them up. That monster runs on two legs: an education system that churns out miseducated radicals and an immigration system that imports uneducated third-world radicals. This to me is the difference between a political party and a cult. pic.twitter.com/vcyFtoY9Bl...
I suppose while I’m on a pathetic, big, blue city mayor kick this afternoon, I might as well update y’all on the goofiest, least competent, most anxiety-ridden, saddest creature ever to occupy the mayor’s office in Chicago – Brandon Johnson, Bear of Little Brain. The teachers’ union tool is having a whale of a year,...
Kate McGough Education producer, BBC News Getty Images There’s been a 44% increase in pupils in England needing support for special educational needs since 2016 Nearly one in five pupils in England are receiving support for special educational needs (SEN) in the classroom, according to government statistics. It comes as separate stats shows a sharp...
Caroline Robinson BBC News, South West BBC People in Devon and Cornwall outlined education, NHS and defence as their priorities People in Cornwall and Devon have told the BBC they are looking to see more funding for the NHS and education but are divided on the winter fuel payment U-turn. Chancellor Rachel Reeves was to...
The Football Foundation is to provide financial backing for an education scheme set up in the name of Stephen Lawrence, the teenager murdered in a racist attack in 1993. The English football charity – which is backed by funding from the Football Association (FA), Premier League and government – will provide career development opportunities for...
While PE is a mandatory subject in schools, the recommended amount of two hours a week is not enforced. YST chief executive Ali Oliver said: “Our children are moving less, feeling unhappier, and losing access to the transformative power of PE, contributing to stagnant physical activity levels. “The fall in PE hours is sadly an...
This article is an excerpt from Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education, by Jesse Hagopian, Copyright © 2025. This text was originally published by Haymarket Books and has been reprinted here with permission. “Our students demand to learn the truth even if a small group of powerful, mostly wealthy, white adults is threatened by...
A shining light within the U.S. labor movement over the past several years has been the rising wave of unionization and militancy among graduate workers, whose labor helps prop up the entire system of U.S. higher education. Tens of thousands of graduate workers have unionized over the past half-decade at institutions like Stanford, UChicago, MIT,...
For decades, phonics was the gold standard for teaching children how to read. There’s a pretty good reason for that: the alphabet and written word are symbolic visual tools used to convey sounds, words, and phrases that are aural. Finding a way to associate the aural with the visual is an obvious way to bridge...
The judge said the administration has made it clear it intends to gut the agency without approval from Congress. President Donald Trump’s sweeping deregulatory agenda was dealt a blow on Thursday when a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to block Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Department of Education and ordered reinstatements of laid...
I wrote about this topic last week based on a couple articles I’d read about how the use of AI by high school and college students has changed things. Students no longer have to work hard or even at all to complete major assignments in classes like English, History, etc. Anyone who has a computer...
We all know now that students’ ability to learn suffered significantly during the pandemic. Some kids struggled to pay attention and some just dropped out entirely, never to return. National test scores since then show that most students haven’t recovered even five years later. Nevertheless, I guess I’d had it in the back of my...
Donald Trump’s war with higher education escalated this week with a series of moves, including an executive order threatening to upend accreditation for Academia. Trump also continued to escalate demand on Harvard specifically, letting other universities know that the White House means business with its enforcement of the Civil Rights Act under its new interpretations....
Namibia’s new president has announced that university fees will be scrapped from 2026. President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, the country’s first female president, made the announcement during her maiden state of the nation address on Thursday evening. Addressing lawmakers, Nandi-Ndaitwah said that students would pay “no registration [or] tuition fees” at all public universities and technical colleges....