Browsing: Education
Elena Rybakina turned down 15 colleges to keep playing tennis. Now she’s no. 1 in the world
Elena Rybakina won the U.S. Open women’s singles tournament last week, defeating reigning champion Aryna Sabalenka in the final face-off.…
AI is remaking the workforce faster than universities can decide how—or whether—to teach it
Amanda Cullen is just a few years away from entering a workforce in which AI is becoming harder to avoid.…
The Chamber of Commerce and the College Board on the missing subject in American high schools: business
This fall, students are making their way back to school filled with the possibility that comes with a fresh academic…
Wealthy parents are buying their kids $75,000 AI schooling as schools grapple with a literacy crisis
Rich families have tried to personalize their children’s education since the days of ancient Greece, when Alexander the Great’s father…
I have spent two decades teaching humanities and social sciences at Amherst College, and my classes have always been built…
Mathematicians grapple with a ‘very rapid and very unsettling change’ as AI cracks yet another century-old problem
On Sunday afternoon, while the rest of the world’s eyes were glued to the World Cup final, an AI model…
AI is boosting student homework scores, but tanking exam performances even years after adoption
Students using AI shortcuts for their homework may be sacrificing their test scores—even years down the line. New research published…
Oscar-winning director behind ‘The Odyssey,’ Christopher Nolan, was once rejected from film school
The opening weekend for The Odyssey was nothing short of epic. Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s nearly 3,000-year-old tale brought…
America’s math and reading scores tanked after schools ditched textbooks for screens—and AI could worsen the brain rot
At the turn of the century, educational technology initiatives put laptop keyboards at the fingertips of U.S. schoolchildren. Now, 25…
Why has a college degree become akin to an unaffordable luxury for millions of Americans?I am a scholar of the…












