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12 Golden Principles of Education Technology
1+ hour, 53+ min ago Introduction: EdTech as the Art of Human Becoming Having taught over 300 college and law school courses online and onsite over the last 25 years, I have been actively engaged in education technology or EdTech for decades. I suppose that I have…...
Cold School Buses Put NY Electric Mandate Under Fire
1+ day, 21+ hour ago By Jim Mishler "|" Saturday, 20 December 2025 05:53 PM EST Parents in a western New York school district say a state mandate requiring electric school buses has left their children riding to and from school in unheated buses during winter weather. Concerns surfaced…...
Brown President Won Big Salary Hike Before Campus Attack
2+ day, 17+ min ago By Jim Mishler "|" Saturday, 20 December 2025 03:04 PM EST Brown University faces continued scrutiny over campus security policies in the wake of the deadly shooting that killed two students on Dec. 13. University President Christina Paxson, meanwhile, enjoys a hefty salary hike from…...
US Appeals Harvard Court Win on $2B Funding Freeze
3+ day, 5+ hour ago Friday, 19 December 2025 08:58 AM EST The U.S. government has appealed a "court ruling that President Donald Trump's administration unlawfully terminated about $2.2 billion in grants awarded to Harvard University and can no longer cut off research funding to the Ivy League school. The…...
Brown President: Shooter Was Former Ph.D. Student
3+ day, 16+ hour ago By Newsmax Wires "|" Thursday, 18 December 2025 10:45 PM EST Brown University President Christina H. Paxson on Thursday detailed the limited and long-ago academic history of Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the former student identified by police as the suspect in the deadly campus shooting....
Linda McMahon to Newsmax: States, Not D.C., Will Run America's Schools
4+ day, 1+ hour ago By Newsmax Wires "|" Thursday, 18 December 2025 12:28 PM EST Education Secretary Linda McMahon told Newsmax on Thursday that America's struggling students " not Washington bureaucrats " are driving her mission to dismantle the Department of Education and return control of education"to the states....
Jobless Claims Fall by 13,000 as Layoffs Remain Low
4+ day, 5+ hour ago A "Now Hiring" sign advertising job openings at the entrance of a Rebel convenience store, Dec. 3, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP) MATT OTT Thursday, 18 December 2025 08:50 AM EST U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell by 13,000 last week, remaining in the same…...
Harvard Probes Students Who Recorded Summers on Epstein
4+ day, 17+ hour ago By Sam Barron "|" Wednesday, 17 December 2025 10:19 PM EST Officials at Harvard University have begun a secret disciplinary investigation into two students who posted videos of the university's former president, Larry Summers, discussing his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers…...
Bezos Couple Award $5M to Neurodiversity Education Leader
4+ day, 22+ hour ago JAMES POLLARD Wednesday, 17 December 2025 04:57 PM EST Mega billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, former news anchor Lauren S'nchez Bezos, are awarding $5 million to the founder of a neurodivergent student support network, a recognition that the lesser-known recipient credits…...
NIH Races to Fill Half Its Top Roles After Mass Exodus
5+ day, 6+ hour ago Ahmed Aboulenein Wednesday, 17 December 2025 07:54 AM EST The U.S. National Institutes of Health is seeking to fill nearly half of its top roles at breakneck speed following a wave of departures since President Donald Trump's return to office in January, according to…...