EDUCATION
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Advice From a Friendship Coach: How to Turn an Acquaintance into a Friend
In a conversation with Life Kit, Vellos shares insights on how to turn a stranger into a friend, based on…
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Easy A’s, Lower Pay: Grade Inflation’s Hidden Damage
But its findings are striking and build the argument against raising grades. Slide from Feb 3, 2026 presentation by economist…
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How the New Dietary Guidelines Could Impact School Meals
In early January, the Department of Health and Human Services and the USDA unveiled new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, along…
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How Immigration Raids Traumatize Even the Youngest Children
“Kids know about people being taken, and they worry. That diffused fear just spreads,” said Joanna Dreby, a professor of…
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Looking Back: When the Spanish Flu Upended Universities, Students Paid the Price
Instead, institutions moved on. “We essentially aged out of it,” said Levine, speaking at the American Enterprise Institute in January…
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‘It Was Terrible’: AI Failures Make Writing by Hand Better for Thinking Skills in One Classroom
Recent data suggests educators may be embracing AI more than they’re eschewing it, like Bond has. Roughly 60% of surveyed…
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Young, Employed — and Unhappy?
For decades, economists could rely on a comforting graph about happiness over a lifetime: It followed a U-shape, like a…
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Trump’s College Admissions Data Collection Strains School Administrators
After the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision banning affirmative action in college admissions, the Trump administration suspected that colleges might covertly…
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The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says
Teachers reported that AI can also help improve students’ writing, so long as it is used to support students’ efforts…
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More Students Are Going to College. Affordability and Workforce Training Are Factors
“Confidence in college is coming back, but it is conditional,” says Courtney Brown, who studies public opinion on colleges for…
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