University Classes on Pseudoscience, Conspiracies In November 2018, about 600 people gathered for a two-day convention in Denver, Colorado. They wore clothes saying the Earth is flat. They listened to speakers who rejected findings from the American...
Hundreds of Thousands of US Students Have Not Returned after Pandemic Hundreds of thousands of American students have dropped out of public schools since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. They have essentially gone missing from schools. An examinat...
International Students in STEM Concerned About Tech Economy Large technology companies including Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft, recently announced that they would cut thousands of jobs. The reductions are worrisome for students in the fields of...
College Board: Changes to Black Studies Unrelated to Politics On February 1, the College Board released its official structure, or framework, for a new Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course. Like other AP classes, the course gives h...
ChatGPT Releases New Tool to Identify AI Writing A new tool from the maker of ChatGPT aims to help deal with concerns about how artificial intelligence (or AI) can be used to cheat in school. The tool is called AI Text Classifier. It is designed to i...
US Schools Face Pressure to Discipline Students Educators say children's behavior reached crisis levels after the pandemic shutdowns. Now, many schools are facing pressure from critics to rethink the ways they discipline students. In recent years, so...
International Students also Learn outside of Class The cost of attending a college or university in the United States is very high. Education Data Initiative, an organization that collects data on the U.S. education system, says the average college s...
Unusual Programs Bring Attention to Colleges Many colleges in the United States offer unusual learning programs for their students. Some teach students how to use robots in medical operations. Others let them use million-dollar supercomputers to stud...
US Schools Start Legal Actions against Social Media Companies Social media companies are facing legal action seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth. The lawsuits came recently from the public schools in Seattle, Was...
Why US Schools Are Blocking ChatGPT? Ask the new artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT to write about the cause of the American Civil War and you can watch it produce a school report in just a few seconds. The technology is so good that it can wr...
Officials Consider How to Treat a Child Who Shot His Teacher A six-year-old student shot his teacher in a classroom in the American state of Virginia last week. Police Chief Steve Drew of Newport News, Virginia told reporters Monday that there was no...
Students and college advisors agree that there are problems with a popular college ranking system in the United States. The magazine U.S. News and World Report produces the rankings. At the same time, the critics do not believe the rankings will end...
Courses on Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey Not Just Easy Listening What is the connection between Taylor Swift's songwriting and poems written by William Shakespeare? How does 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche relate to Lana Del Rey's mu...
International Student Athletes Work to Find Commercial Money A growing number of international students are playing high-level sports in college. And since 2021, college athletes have been permitted to make money through product sponsorships and comm...