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College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read
1+ hour, 44+ min ago (446+ words) Published Jun 10, 2026 8: 44 AM EDT Here's the latest harrowing dispatch from the frontlines of education, as yet another higher education instructor laments that his pupils literally can't read. In a new essay for The Chronicle Higher Education, university-level literature and writing…...
College Professors Say Incoming Students No Longer Understand Middle School Math and Science
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (305+ words) Published Jun 3, 2026 3: 01 PM EDT As rampant AI use accelerates a crisis in education, University of California professors are pleading with leadership to reinstate college-entrance exams, The Wall Street Journal reports, claiming that incoming students barely have a middle-school level understanding…...
Major Teachers Union Pleads With Elementary Schools to Stop Giving Young Kids AI
1+ week, 2+ day ago (346+ words) Published May 31, 2026 1: 00 PM EDT Angry parents aren't the only ones railing against the proliferation of AI in schools. The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teacher's union in the United States, has now launched a major campaign calling on schools…...
Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI
1+ week, 2+ day ago (701+ words) Published May 31, 2026 10: 30 AM EDT Such desperate times call for Draconian measures. In a roundup of instructor testimonials on the AI's impact on their profession from The New Yorker, one pedagogue is taking no prisoners when it comes to punishing pupils…...
California State University Made a Huge Deal With Open AI and It's Been a Disaster
1+ week, 3+ day ago (240+ words) Published May 31, 2026 6: 00 AM EDT If part of the intent behind the collaboration was to win new AI converts, it hasn't quite worked out that way. "They're ethically opposed to the environmental impacts and the bias and the erasure of their…...
Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: "I'm Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI"
1+ week, 4+ day ago (494+ words) Published May 30, 2026 9: 00 AM EDT Earlier this month, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was met with jeers when he brought up AI during his commencement speech at the University of Arizona. Just days earlier, footage of real estate executive Gloria Caulfield…...
Students Boo and Jeer as AI Name-Reader Flops Spectacularly at College Graduation Ceremony
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (370+ words) Published May 19, 2026 12: 04 PM EDT The president of Glendale Community College was pelted with a chorus of furious boos after an AI tool tasked with reading graduating students" names completely and totally flunked the assignment. As local outlet AZFamily reported, students…...
Parents Explode in Fury at School's Plan to Constantly Film Their Children to Train AI
3+ week, 1+ day ago (404+ words) Published May 18, 2026 3: 01 PM EDT The parents did a little more than opt out, however. They revolted, and the backlash was so heated that the University of Washington called off the experiment entirely, according to 404. The documents given to parents sometimes…...
Grade Inflation Is Going Nuts as Every Student Is Basically Submitting the Same Essay
3+ week, 1+ day ago (327+ words) Published May 18, 2026 11: 10 AM EDT Being a straight-A student doesn't mean what it used to. Today, widely available AI chatbots make cheating on your homework and churning out entire essays easier than ever. If students don't outright ask an AI for…...
Tech Workers, Long Treated Like Aristocracy, Are Now Human Waste
3+ week, 1+ day ago (364+ words) Published May 18, 2026 10: 09 AM EDT Ten years ago if you had told a tech industry recruiter their days are numbered, you'd be laughed out of the job fair. Now in 2026, it's conventional wisdom: a freshly-minted computer science degree is now anything…...