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Catch up on what you missed with our Education newsletter, sent weekly. A massive trove of data about the civil rights of American students was quietly published on the U.S. Education Department’s website this week. The Civil Rights Data Collection includes information about which groups of students are being bullied, which students across the country
The use of large language models (LLMs) is soaring among students worldwide thanks to the tools’ growing ability to solve problems and generate text and code. In a 2026 survey of 1,054 UK undergraduate students by the Higher Education Policy Institute in Oxford, UK, roughly 94% said that they use generative artificial-intelligence tools to help
America has spent decades building a sprawling higher education system around a steady supply of college-age students. Now, there are about to be fewer of them to go around. A record 3.9 million U.S. students graduated from high school in 2025. But that peak marks a turning point: By 2041, the country is projected to
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Citing the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel’s war in Gaza and others as part of the Trump administration ‘s quest to deport noncitizens who it says disrupted college campuses while expressing their views. Judge Noël Wise,
They came to Penn State from across the US, varsity athletes and top students drawn to the university’s strong academic reputation and social opportunities. Agostino Abbatiello graduated from a prestigious Catholic all-boys’ school on Long Island, New York. During high school, he listed himself as a “life coach” – the type who lived by the
