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28 Sep

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The Wall Street Journal
By Roshan Fernandez
Sept. 25, 2026
A growing number of private colleges are reassessing how much they charge families to attend. With the cost of college under scrutiny, some universities are deploying a fresh wave of financial moves to lure students—like slashing tuition by nearly half, offering “in state” rates to compete with public institutions, and promising loan-free aid to certain families....

18 Sep

Posted at 18:27h in Hunt Institute, News by

Office of Governor Tate Reeves
For Immediate Release:
September 17, 2026
JACKSON, Miss. – Governor Tate Reeves has been awarded the Hunt Institute’s inaugural Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. Leadership Award(opens in new tab). The award honors “exemplary senior-level state leaders or state agencies that have made exceptional contributions to improving outcomes for all learners in their states.” Governor Reeves is receiving the award as a result of Mississippi’s nation-leading education gains. “It’s truly humbling to receive the inaugural Governor James B. Hunt, Jr....

30 Aug

Posted at 22:42h in News by

The New York Times
By  Karen Weise
August 26, 2026
Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, is loudly warning that artificial intelligence poses a grave threat to jobs and human life, and that urgently addressing the risks should be “the world’s top priority.” In an hourlong interview with The New York Times last week, Mr. Gates said the tech industry was knowingly downplaying those threats because there was too much money on the line. “In private, people who understand how good this stuff is, and...

14 Aug

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AP News
By  Moriah Balingit
August 3, 2026
President Donald Trump’s administration is planning a dramatic overhaul of Head Start that would gut its quality standards, upending the hallmarks of the early education program for impoverished children, two people familiar with the deliberations said. Head Start, established in the 1960s to help fight poverty, has long been considered by experts to be a gold standard early learning program. Its regulations, which stretch more than 100 pages, outline requirements on everything from child-to-teacher ratios and child...

28 Jul

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The Atlantic
By  David Brooks
June 28, 2026
Remember when AI was going to take away our jobs and leave humans with nothing to do? So far, that doesn’t seem to be happening. Researchers from ActivTrak analyzed the digital activity of more than 10,000 workers and found that when people adopted AI, their work life became more intense, not less. The time that these early adopters spent on email, messaging, and chat apps more than doubled. Their use of business software rose by 94...

24 Jul

Posted at 15:44h in News, Stanford by

Stanford Center for Racial Justice
By Hoang Pham, Tanvi Kohli, Emily Olick Llano, Imani Nokuri, Anya Weinstock
June 29, 2026
It’s hard to avoid the topic of artificial intelligence. Since ChatGPT was introduced in November 2022, AI has infiltrated just about every aspect of human life—and at a pace that is almost impossible to keep up with. Pope Francis recently attended the G7 summit to address global leaders on the perils and promises of AI—the first time a pontiff has ever addressed the...

30 Jun

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Politico
By Aaron Mak
June 18, 2026
Dana Suskind is co-director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago, where she’s helped oversee the development of wearable devices that use AI and sensors to gather data on children’s early language environments. Suskind’s forthcoming book Human Raised: Nurturing Connection, Curiosity & Lifelong Learning in the Age of AI explores the impact of AI on raising children. She talks to us about her concerns with AI toys and...

31 May

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National Academies
By Sara Frueh
May 4, 2026
As artificial intelligence starts to reshape work across many sectors of the economy, students, parents, and educators are grappling with how to prepare young people for the workforce when the future impacts of AI on jobs are still unclear. “It’s a really nerve-racking time for teachers, for students, for parents, for entire industries,” said Adam Browning of Washington Leadership Academy, a charter school in Washington, D.C., who spoke at a recent workshop hosted by the National...

26 May

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PR Newswire
May 14, 2026
As multi-site childcare organizations scale across the United States, managing and storing highly sensitive data related to children and families has become mission-critical. illumine, the world's first AI-powered childcare technology company, is reinforcing its commitment to secure, responsible innovation with its SOC 2 Type II certification. Purpose-built for multi-site childcare providers, illumine enables operators to access audit logs, control user access, ensure data privacy and power daily center operations through AI. illumine follows a privacy-first AI architecture designed...

06 May

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The New Yorker
By Jay Caspian Kang
May 5, 2026
A few weeks ago, while I was dealing with taxes, it occurred to me that the money my wife and I were putting away in a college fund for our children might be better used somewhere else. This wasn’t a novel musing, but it felt particularly pressing as I watched my account balance go down, a portion of its resources funnelled into something that can’t be touched for at least the next nine...

04 May

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Ed Tech
By Alexander Slagg
May 4, 2026
In Jonathan Haidt’s recent book, The Anxious Generation, the author summarizes a common understanding among K–12 educators: Adolescent access to smartphones has led to a generational mental health crisis. There is a great push in education to avoid a similar outcome with an even more transformative technology: artificial intelligence. A key strategy is boosting AI literacy among K–12 educators and students. Higher education plays a critical role in this mission, providing the research, training and critical...

02 May

Posted at 03:23h in News, Press by

Chicago Tribune
By Dana Suskind
April 30, 2026
Recent reporting has drawn attention to an alarming new trend: video content aimed at young kids that is generated by artificial intelligence and is popping up on YouTube at a shocking rate. These videos feature garbled text, made-up words, disfigured people and animals, nonsensical songs and, sometimes, downright scary imagery. This is AI slop for kids, and it’s dangerous. And technology companies’ proposed solution isn’t good enough. According to a New York Times report, up...

29 Apr

Posted at 19:16h in News by

The New York Times
By Matthew Haag
April 27, 2026
In Brooklyn, an artificial intelligence program helps public school students pronounce words. In Queens, high school students ask Google Gemini how to improve their essays. And in the Bronx, students in a robotics lab consult an A.I. tool before building parts on a 3-D printer. As teachers and students in New York City and across the United States have increasingly embraced artificial intelligence in the classroom, school leaders in the nation’s largest school system...

02 Apr

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Brookings
By Sweta Shah
April 1, 2026
A baby is sleeping under a camera that monitors her breathing. A toddler is asking Alexa to play a song. A 5-year-old is sounding out words through a tablet app that adjusts to her pace. A 7-year-old’s YouTube queue is curated by an algorithm based on his preferences. AI is not arriving in the lives of young children. It is already there. The assumption that AI primarily affects older children is wrong. For the youngest children, the...

01 Apr

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LA Times
By Ruben Vives
April 1, 2026
The number of homeless students in Los Angeles County is surging, with thousands more unhoused in the span of a single school year. The number of students experiencing homelessness in the county rose by 28% — from 47,689 in the 2022-23 school year to 61,249 in 2023-24 — according to a pair of studies from the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools. It is the largest increase the county has experienced in the last five...

28 Feb

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Fort Lewis College
February 6, 2026
On April 9, Fort Lewis College will inaugurate Dr. Heather Shotton as the institution’s 11th President. This formal investiture marks the installation of Dr. Shotton as the first Indigenous president of Fort Lewis College, a significant milestone for the College as a Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution. A citizen of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and a descendant of the Kiowa and Cheyenne peoples, President Shotton brings a vision grounded in student success, academic excellence, and community...

28 Feb

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WRAL News
WRAL Staff
February 26, 2026
State and local leaders met with child care providers in Durham to talk about solutions to what lawmakers call a "child care crisis" in North Carolina. Sen. Natalie Murdock, D-20, headed the State of Child Care in NC Roundtable session that took place at Kate's Korner on Blackwell Street in downtown Durham. Kate's Korner is an early childhood learning center. The founder, Kate Goodwin, was in attendance. ...

26 Feb

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Time Magazine
By Rebecca Schneid
February 26, 2026
At an event in September 2024, lawyer and activist Reshma Saujani asked President Donald Trump a question about his plans to address child­care affordability. His fumbling answer went viral, and raised awareness about how expensive childcare has become in the U.S.: for most American families with young children, it eats up more than 20% of their income. One report found that the burden on the U.S. economy comes out to more than $122 billion a...

01 Feb

Posted at 00:25h in News by

Transcend
January 2026
As we enter a new year, a growing dissonance is becoming impossible to ignore: the gap between what most young people experience in schools and what they actually need to thrive in this moment and beyond. For the past few years, we've been obsessed with the question of what ongoing advancements in AI mean for the future of school. We've watched as districts chase efficiency through disconnected pilots. We've seen AI readiness appear in glossy materials without changing classroom practice....