education-policy

So, you are both excited and nervous about going to law school. You’ve heard it’s hard. You want to be ready. What do you need to know to be successful — and, most important, happy? In my career I’ve worked with law students in many capacities. Here are some of the ways I’ve seen them […] The post The law school reality check: What every applicant should know appeared first on National Jurist .

The report, published by the American Statistical Association, recommends stronger data governance, improved interoperability and expanded technical capacity — both at the federal and state levels.

arXiv:2609.03770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Institutions practising outcome-based education compute learning outcome attainment routinely, while reviews of curriculum analytics report an absence of evidence on how that computation informs decisions. This paper presents OBER+, an extension of a deployed institutional attainment platform that computes the step from a measured shortfall to an …

How to connect LLM agents to verified African examination content, deliver progressive Socratic hints, and diagnose student misconceptions without hallucinating. Large Language Models (LLMs) like Claude 4.6 Opus and GPT-4 possess formidable general reasoning capabilities. However, when deployed in African educational applications, they frequently suffer from two critical pitfalls: syllabus halluc…

A primary-care physician is hard to find. The thousands needed nationwide are even tougher to discover. A new paper led by a faculty member at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine (HMSOM) points to why - and outlines strategies to boost recruitment, starting in undergraduate medical education.

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 03 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02575-5 In this Perspective, Haubrock et al. argue that today’s scientific structures constrain creativity and that strategic conformity is a rational response. They discuss how this holds back early-career researchers from reaching their full potential as scientists.

In a competitive job market, it can be tricky for lawyers to identify the differentiators that will make their resumes stand out. Which credentials and specialty skills are nice to have, and which achievements open doors to fulfilling and prosperous careers? With these kinds of questions in mind, educators at today’s U.S. law schools are […] The post LL.M. Honor Roll: Law schools are expanding LL…

2019 Psychology alumna Kaitlyn Mumma is receiving national attention for research that began as her master’s thesis. Her 20-year study examining nearly 400,000 students found that children who attended public pre-K experienced lasting academic benefits, including stronger reading and math performance in third grade. The research has been featured by Education Week, the Miami Herald, EdSource, and…

  Empowering Histories is a site set-up by Matt Vriesman, the 2023 National History Teacher of the Year. Here’s how he describes it: All my materials are organized chronologically by AP units and are tied directly to the College Board’s Key Concepts. However, these lessons work great in on-level high school and middle school history […]

The digitalization of education requires leadership that can reframe institutional purpose rather than merely administer technology. Drawing on Shields' theory of transformative leadership, this study examines the implementation environment that educational leaders in Zanzibar must navigate, and asks which implementation conditions are most amenable to transformative leadership action. A sequenti…

The data is supposed to highlight racial, ethnic, and disability-based disparities in schools.

Ten graduate students from universities across the country recently came to Penn State to participate in the Mixed Methods Summer Intensive for Practice-Based Researchers program led by Ray Block Jr., Brown-McCourtney Career Development Professor in the McCourtney Institute for Democracy and professor of political science and of African American studies.

Summer is an exciting time for NBA fans with a flair for analytics. The free-agency period has my news feed full of trades, signings and salary dumps. One aspect of professional sports leagues that has always fascinated me is the way they build in financial safeguards to increase competition. Education finance could learn a thing […]

A recent study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (JNEB), published by Elsevier, explored elementary school teachers' experiences before and after the end of the federal universal free school meals (UFSM) policy.

An ongoing national teacher shortage has created a sense of urgency to better understand why educators choose to stay in their positions -- and why they leave. Does support from administrative leadership help keep teachers in their jobs by making them feel safer and less stressed? And when teachers experience violence from students in their classrooms, does it weaken the impact of that protective…

A federal lawsuit over mandatory school devices puts a growing parent techlash in the spotlight, pitting concerns about screen time and online risks against the realities of digital classrooms. The post Techlash Lands School District in Federal Court appeared first on TechNewsWorld .

The new Academic AI Strategy establishes a shared vision for artificial intelligence (AI) across teaching and learning while providing practical resources, including a new Academic AI Playbook for faculty and staff.

Scientific Reports, Published online: 01 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-64245-w An intelligent Pythagorean fuzzy MSD–CRITIC–RAWEC framework for assessing psychological states in political education classrooms