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This state tried to overhaul math instruction. It didn’t go as planned
LEHI, Utah — It was the last class before Thanksgiving break, and high school math teacher Sarah Gale was dishing […]
February 12, 2026
Jacqui Smith’s secret service | Wonkhe
It’s hard to imagine that the universities that we are so familiar with could be a frontier of international power […]
February 12, 2026
New collaborative models of knowledge exchange are needed
For decades, knowledge exchange and commercialisation infrastructure in UK higher education have been framed through a dominant and largely unquestioned […]
February 12, 2026
Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences
Nearly two weeks after the largest trove of Epstein files was released, some of Jeffrey Epstein’s regular academic pen pals […]
February 11, 2026
The walls are closing in on our doomed student loan system
Exciting times! HM Treasury has published its Supplementary Estimates for 2025-26. These are the documents through which government departments ask […]
February 11, 2026
Content Refresh Strategy for Higher Education: Win Rankings
Reading Time: 14 minutes For years, the default response to declining organic performance in higher education marketing was simple: publish […]
February 11, 2026
When Machines Think, Human Thinking Must Go Higher
Not long ago, I participated in an exercise that asked educators to define thinking and learning. It was a familiar […]
February 11, 2026
The Higher Ed Recruitment Playbook Has Reached Its Breaking Point
Colleges and universities are pouring more budget and bandwidth into recruitment and not seeing the return. Funnels are stalling. Costs […]
February 11, 2026
Spain considers banning teens from social media and holding tech executives criminally responsible for ‘hate speech’
FIRE’s Free Speech Dispatch covers new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers […]
February 11, 2026