by Sarah Lin | Dec 10, 2024 | Business, Education, Featured
For its 200 million weekly active users worldwide, ChatGPT is an invention of convenience. In seconds, the tool can offload hours of menial work in coding, writing and studying, just a few of the product’s many applications. But as the company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI,...
by Erica Schmitt | Dec 10, 2024 | Education, Featured
When President-elect Donald Trump nominated Linda McMahon as the Secretary for Education in November, it signified more than a routine staffing decision—it reflected his administration’s broader agenda to reshape America’s public education system. Trump’s...
by Jonas Blum | Dec 4, 2024 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Democrats and Republicans disagreed on the pressing issues facing U.S. education during a hotly debated hearing on Wednesday held by the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education. Republicans took aim at the alleged...
by Jonas Blum | Nov 6, 2024 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – Center City Public Charter School teacher Alfons Prince designed his own curriculum to prepare middle school students for algebra before they enter high school, an effort to revamp math education as just 22% of District of Columbia Public School...
by Braedyn Speight | Feb 1, 2024 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) announced Thursday that he and other senators are directing the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, to examine the delays surrounding the updates to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid...
by Rachel Schlueter | Jan 5, 2024 | Education, Featured
For 15 years, three large boulders located on the University of Texas at Dallas campus were used to publicize events, display art and present political messages. After Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack of Israel, which killed about 1,200 people, and Israel’s subsequent...
by Elleiana Green | Dec 18, 2023 | Education, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — Transgender athletes in school sports left in limbo for months finally received an updated timeline from the Biden administration on its plan to update guidelines intended to protect them from discrimination. In April, the Biden administration proposed a...
by Kristen Axtman | Dec 13, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has taken aim at the for-profit college industry with a new rule to help prevent students from being saddled with massive debts. The fate of the program, however, could lie in who occupies the White House in 2025. In September,...
by Elleiana Green | Dec 5, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – Pushing back against book bans across the country, Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) was joined by his Democratic colleagues as he introduced the ‘Fight Book Bans Act’ on Tuesday. “The far right, fascist, MAGA extreme has caught up to the fact that their agenda...
by Angela Zhang | Nov 10, 2023 | Education, Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — House representatives and experts are calling for urgent changes to United Nations humanitarian agencies involving Palestinian youth education on Israel over fears that the programs are spreading antisemitism. “Hatred is taught,” said Rep. Christopher...
by Elleiana Green and Jessica Ma | Nov 9, 2023 | Education, Featured, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Jewish students and faculty members implored lawmakers on Wednesday to condemn antisemitic incidents and push back against hateful language on college campuses as Congress grapples with flared tensions related to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. ...
by Gaby Striano | Oct 26, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — As war wages in the Middle East, the House of Representatives looks to pass the Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act. The bill requires the State Department to annually assess school curriculums in the West Bank and Gaza and report its...
