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Borrowers face stricter payment timelines after Biden-era Save repayment plan was ended by Donald Trump The American student loan repayment system is set to undergo a significant overhaul next month, changing the way millions of borrowers pay off their debt. The series of changes, which take effect 1 July, are a result of the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that was signed last …

Amid declining test scores, the country has pivoted away from screens and invested in back-to-basics school materials.

AimThis study aimed to determine the effect of a nursing education course based on the cooperative learning model on the creative thinking disposition and self-regulated learning skills of students preparing to provide patient education.MethodsThis was a quasi-experimental study with a one-group pretest-post-test design. The study sample included 91 third-year students enrolled in the Education i…

Cases reported in 83 countries, with at least 10,600 students and staff killed, injured, abducted or arrested, GCPEA says Attacks on education globally have surged by 40% with more than 8,556 recorded incidents and 10,600 students and staff killed, injured, abducted, arrested or otherwise harmed in 2024 and 2025, according to new research. Attacks were reported in 83 countries, with the highest i…

Academic Life Your Lived Experience Makes You a Better Scholar What you know from your own life can become the question that shapes your strongest work. By Tanya Golash-Boza During my first semester of graduate school, I took a course on the sociology of education. Midway through the semester, we read John Ogbu and Signithia Fordham’s famous article on “acting White.” The research had been conduc…

Published on June 14, 2026 2:15 PM GMT Assume this is talking about majoring in Computer Science. Do you think getting high GPA (in CS major) is highly, moderately or only slightly aligned with improving AI risks research(both conceptual and emprirical) abilities? Some said they think a lot of college courses are not so useful[1], and getting good grades on tests requires practcing irrelevant ski…

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 13 June 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07873-x Language planning and identity construction in postcolonial educational policies: a comparative analysis of Portuguese-speaking countries

'Where are the kids in this decision? Where are the teachers, and the parents? Are the kids happy to work a little harder if given some extra time to work toward the testing goal?,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

SCOTUS rulings get a lot of airtime, but ed reformers' eyes should be on decisions coming from state benches The post How State Courts Are Quietly Shaping U.S. Education appeared first on Education Next .

This qualitative study seeks to examine how value-based supervision can be integrated into educational leadership at the institutional level in Oman by exploring value-based supervisory practices, associated challenges, and leadership innovations within Omani educational settings. The research employed an interpretive qualitative approach using the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) m…

IntroductionCourse evaluation data provide important information for understanding teaching and learning quality. This study aimed to develop an interpretable machine-learning framework for predicting course-evaluation outcomes and identifying influential evaluation indicators.MethodsTwo semesters of institutional educational evaluation data were used to construct two related prediction tasks: se…

IntroductionThe sexual abuse of learners by educators remains a significant issue in the South African educational system, compromising the learners' well-being and the veracity of institutions. Despite having solid or robust policy structures in place, incidents keep emerging, often hushed by stigma, power dynamics, and insufficient institutional retorts. The ongoing challenges of sexual exploit…

IntroductionThis study examines the application of the CIPP (Context, Input, Process, Product) evaluation model in assessing the effectiveness of nautical curricula in maritime higher education. The study aims to analyze how the CIPP model supports curriculum alignment with the dynamic demands of the maritime industry and international standards such as IMO–STCW.MethodsA systematic literature rev…

Every reporting requirement is intended to serve a purpose, but is each one delivering value? In this episode, Kelsey Krausen, Director of Education Finance at WestEd, shares how education leaders can separate meaningful data reporting from burdensome paperwork and reclaim more staff time to focus on students.

The University of California will consider bringing back SAT and ACT requirements for first-year admissions. UC ended test requirements in 2020.

Lawsuit against education software company fuels wider debate over privacy, screen time and learning Two California parents are suing Curriculum Associates – whose online education program i-Ready is used by thousands of schools for diagnostic testing, tracking student progress and online assessments – claiming the program violates privacy laws, which has led to a debate over whether i-Ready is a…

Broad achievement declines in 21st-century America demand new policy approaches The post Putting Pandemic Learning Loss in Perspective appeared first on Education Next .

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SRI - A global leader in R&D with deep roots in Silicon Valley. The ATS Hub supports IES’ Accelerate, Transform, Scale (ATS) Initiative through capacity building, community engagement, and field-wide outreach to advance interdisciplinary, evidence-driven education innovation and scalable breakthroughs. Summary The Accelerate, Transform, Scale (ATS) Hub is an effort to advance breakthrough innovat…

During the 2025-2026 school year, educators from the NASA Science Activation Program’s GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment) Mission Earth project participated in a specialized Community of Practice led by NASA Langley Research Center to refine how students interact with NASA’s land cover data (MODIS, Landsat, and Sentinel-2).