Education

From finance to consulting, automation is reshaping entry-level roles. Wendy Carlin explains how students and schools might adapt.

For many in education, the advancement of large language models poses a risk of students cheating. But for Kristi Girdharry, Director of the Writing Center at Babson College, educators need to teach their students not only to leverage AI but to be better than it.

There are almost 250,000 Chinese students in the U.S. this fall — a 36% drop from the 2017 peak.

Steve Schneider, a recently-retired school counselor of almost three decades, tells us about the job landscape amid advances in AI tech in the workplace.

American manufacturers have a workforce problem: finding people who want this work and have the right skills. One fix? Getting teenagers interested in factory jobs.

New York Times education reporter Dana Goldstein talks about how school voucher programs and a declining birth rate are affecting public school enrollment.

It turns out there was not a surge in hiring. Instead, the seasonal adjustment to the data, meant to account for schools getting out, may have distorted the numbers in June.

The pledges corporations made in 2020 to do more to support Black communities included a flood of pledges to and new investments in Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Public school educators fear this will drive funding out of districts throughout the state.

In New Mexico, a family of four making up to $124,000 a year can now send their kids to day care for free. That’s twice the state’s median income.