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After winning his Supreme Court case, a high school football coach has been rehired and is back to praying on the field again
After the Supreme Court sided with Joe Kennedy, the high school football coach was rehired and kneeled on the field in prayer after Friday's game.
I went to college for free in Scotland. Here are 5 things about my experience that Americans may find surprising.
Insider's reporter went to college for free in her homeland, Scotland. The country hasn't charged students tuition fees since before 2008.
Texas education board members vow to keep PragerU out of public schools after one state official went rogue
"You can count on me, if I have anything to do with it, PragerU will not be in Texas," Texas State Board of Education member Staci Childs said.
California's attorney general is suing a school district that's forcing teachers to tell parents if transgender and nonbinary students want to change their pronouns
The Chino Valley Unified School District approved a policy last month requiring school staff to tell parents if their kids want to change their pronouns.
How Preply became one of the largest online language learning startups in the world
Preply was founded in 2012 by Ukrainian entrepreneurs Kirill Bigai, Dmytro Voloshyn, and Serge Lukyanov. Since then, they've raised millions in venture capital funding.
A Florida GOP rep who defended the state's new slavery curriculum is now helping create its first Black history museum
Florida state Rep. Berny Jacques blamed "misinformation" for the notion that the state is teaching slavery "to be a benefit."
The Yale police union is welcoming students by handing out 'Grim Reaper' survival guides warning them to 'remain on campus' to ensure their safety
Anthony Campbell, the chief of the Yale Police Department and the ex-New Haven police chief, blasted the union's fliers as "divisive and destructive."
A Virginia high school told a student to remove American flags from his truck. His family opted to homeschool him instead.
The high schooler was told the twin American flags mounted to the back of his truck broke the school parking policy.
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Florida elementary school apologizes after assembling all the Black children from two grades into a room and telling them to do better
Black students from the elementary school's fourth and fifth grades were told as a group that they had been underperforming on standardized tests.
Some recent college graduates say they're unprepared for the job search. Here are 5 tips to get work-ready.
Sophie and Julie Phillipson wrote "Survive & Thrive" to help recent college graduates prepare for the workforce.
A Texas education official went rogue, announcing that right-wing PragerU programming was coming to state classrooms
The education official, Julie Pickren, had previously been criticized for singing "God Bless America" as protesters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Florida's Board of Education is forcing state colleges to fire employees who don't use bathrooms of their assigned sex at birth
Florida's Board of Education approved the rule about bathrooms during a Wednesday meeting, adding teeth to legislation backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The GPT college classroom is almost here, but professors say AI isn't the real threat
"AI tools are not the threat — a lagging and outdated approach to education is," one professor told Insider.
Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck a former Meta VP used to raise $7.5 million in seed funding for his AI chatbot tutoring startup that helps students with STEM homework
The VP of AI at Meta left to start an edtech chatbot startup, Sizzle AI, where students share STEM homework problems and get custom step-by-step help.
Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck that Kinjo, a startup that helps encourage kids to play educational games on Roblox, used to raise $6.5 million in seed funding
With Kinjo, kids who play educational games on Roblox can earn more of the platform's virtual currency called Robux.
How private lenders have left millions of college students with no hope for the future
How the booming market for private loans saddled millions of students with $136 billion in debt that can't be forgiven and left them with no hope.
A high school football coach fired 8 years ago for praying on the field is coaching again after the Supreme Court ruled in his favor
Joe Kennedy is back to coaching in Washington state after the Supreme Court ruled last year that he could lawfully lead prayers after games.
Little Rock Nine members slam restrictions on AP African American Studies course in Arkansas
"I think the attempts to erase history is working for the Republican Party," Elizabeth Eckford, a Little Rock Nine member, recently told NBC News.
I'm an incoming Harvard freshman. I'm nervous I won't fit in with the rich kids on campus as a financial-aid student.
Ezekiel Wells thought Harvard was only for rich, well-connected kids. But when he got a full financial-aid package, he enrolled in his dream school.
I'm entering my last year of college. Here's what I wish I knew as an incoming freshman.
Moses Jeanfrancois is a senior at The New School and wishes he knew it would be difficult to make friends as a college freshman.
I was told I'd never get into Yale because of Asian American prejudice, but I beat the odds and got in. Now I teach other students how to get into their dream schools.
The writer thought he didn't have high enough grades as an Asian American to get into Yale. He got in anyway.
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Idaho's Teacher of the Year fled the state after conservative parents attacked her for being an LGBTQ+ ally
Karen Lauritzen told The Boston Globe that right-wing outlets smeared her and parents piled on with baseless accusations.
An Iowa school district asked ChatGPT if a list of books contains sex scenes, and banned them if it said yes. We put the system to the test and found a bunch of problems.
The school district asked ChatGPT whether a book contained a description or depiction of an explicit act before banning 19 books from its libraries.
Here's everything that Massachusetts' 4% tax on millionaires will pay for, from free student lunches to college financial aid
Thanks to the state's voter-passed amendment that put a 4% surtax on people's annual incomes above $1 million, $1 billion in revenue has been created.
These education-tech startups are aiming to help kids with autism, ADHD and dyslexia in school
A growing group of startups are addressing the learning needs of neurodivergent students in schools.
8 US states offer free lunch for students. Here's how they pay for it, from a 4% millionaire's tax to a $0.03 property tax rate increase.
Massachusetts' free lunch program, which is funded by a 4% millionaire's tax, makes it the latest state to offer free lunch to public school students.
AI is going to eliminate way more jobs than anyone realizes
AI is a tsunami about to upend the global economy, throwing 300 million jobs into mayhem and forcing half the workforce to learn new skills.
Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public-school student will have access to free lunch.
Massachusetts the eighth state to adopt a plan for free school lunch for all students who want it.
College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT
The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.
I'm a college senior. Here's what I recommend all incoming freshmen get for their dorm rooms — and everything they can leave at home.
College freshmen can leave mattress toppers, bed caddies, and printers off the dorm packing list. But they should get a steamer, a senior says.
A conservative parents group that pushes for book bans is sharing videos on how to pressure your child's teachers
Utah Parents United, a conservative Christian group that pushes for book bans, has training videos to help parents pressure teachers.
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As a recent college grad, I applied to nearly 90 jobs, and I never heard back from a majority of them. I didn't think it would be this difficult.
When Mo Mitchell graduated from the University of Chicago, she thought getting a job would be easy. The process took a toll on her mental health.
Kentucky's largest school district had to cancel class for two days so it could overhaul a 'disastrous' new bus system that left kids on buses until 10 p.m.
Jefferson County Public Schools canceled class for two days after changes in bus routes and start times left kids on school buses until 10 p.m.
An AP Psychology teacher in Florida says she's afraid to say the wrong thing in class for the first time in her career
Florida schools are canceling AP Psychology courses because they might break the so-called "Don't Say Gay" law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
I used to work for Apple and watched it lose the K-12 education market to Google. Now it could lose the next generation of fans.
Apple used to dominate in schools and with K-12 kids. But as back-to-school season kicks off, it appears to be bowing out of the market.
Ronald DeSantis, whose nickname is Ron, is making some Florida students get their parent's permission to use their nickname
The new rule is thanks to legislation approved by the state's governor who famously goes by his nickname.
The edtech startup funding slowdown may be hitting the 'bottom of the market'
The venture capital funding slowdown has hit the edtech industry hard, with deals on track for their lowest total since 2016, a new report shows.
Texas A&M board members sought a journalism program that would churn out conservatives to 'direct our message,' according to text messages
The messages came to light during a lawsuit over the dismissal of Kathleen McElroy, who says the school rescinded a job offer after "DEI hysteria."
A Florida teachers' union says DeSantis is using an 'extremist agenda' to 'censor' AP Psychology after the College Board said the course was 'effectively banned' through the state's 'Don't Say Gay' law
The teachers' union accused DeSantis of using "every possible tactic to stoke fears among parents, with the goal of dividing and distracting us."
Disgraced Harvard professor Francesca Gino's $25 million lawsuit will scare researchers away from calling out suspected fraud, scholars fear
Professor Francesca Gino claims Harvard and Data Colada "worked together to destroy my career and reputation."
I took a chance and wrote my college essay about wanting to be like Barbie. I was accepted into one of the world's top film schools.
Lauren Trippeer was worried college-admissions boards wouldn't think she was serious enough if she told them she wanted to be just like Barbie.
Paper, the online tutoring unicorn, just had a second round of layoffs. The cuts come a year-and-a-half after raising $270 million in Series D funding.
Paper, the Canadian online tutoring startup, laid off staff late last month just days after a report criticized the company's efficacy.
Harvard professor Francesca Gino was accused of faking data. Now her million-dollar empire is crumbling — and scholars are eyeing who's next.
With someone who studied honesty now accused of fraud, academics are sounding off on the flawed, clout-chasing studies rampant in behavioral science.
A teacher said she was fired from a Texas school after 20 years and 'treated like a criminal' for attending a drag show
Kristi Maris said news of her dismissal "spread like wildfire" in the Christian school after she was fired for attending a show at Hamburger Mary's.
I'm a college expert, and the biggest mistake I see students make is not negotiating their financial aid offer. Here's how to do it.
Most incoming freshmen don't know that colleges offer significant discounts — even the most elite schools. All you have to do is ask for them.
Even OpenAI's own detection service can't tell AI-generated work apart — the company quietly took it down over accuracy concerns
The company removed its tool for detecting writing generated by AI six months after launching the feature, citing a 'low rate of accuracy.'
Kids of the 1% are twice as likely to get into 'Ivy Plus' colleges, even when their grades are no better than anyone else's
A July report by a group of economists at Harvard University who study inequality shows how lopsided the admissions process is.
'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' were both inspired by books. Here are 16 titles to read if you want more after the double feature
To keep your 'Kenergy' high, we rounded up these 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' related books, from the titles that inspired the movies to historical accounts that provide additional context for the films.
A California school board that rejected an LGBTQ+ figure in social studies curriculum changed its mind after a $1.5 million threat
The Temecula Valley Unified School District originally rejected the state's social studies curriculum over the inclusion of LGBTQ+ leader Harvey Milk.
Stanford's student paper just took down the prestigious school's president
Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne will resign in August, the school said Wednesday, following a scandal over his scientific research.