Education
111,000 Fewer International Students This Fall. Who Pays?
U.S. campuses are opening with a projected 111,000 fewer international students — a 9.5% drop worth $3.4 billion — and visa rules tighten again September 15.
Education
Education
NYC Bans Student-Facing AI Through 8th Grade
The nation's largest school system is blocking student-facing AI for nearly 600,000 students through 8th grade — the broadest K-12 AI moratorium in the U.S.
AI
Anthropic's Claude for Teachers: A Free Year, No District Required
Anthropic is giving verified US K-12 teachers a free year of premium Claude, with standards-aligned lesson planning and agentic tools included. The pedagogy plumbing is the pitch; the district-governance questions are the caveat.
Education
Canvas Goes Dark for 9,000 Schools Mid-Finals
ShinyHunters defaced the Canvas login page on May 7 and pulled millions of students offline during finals week, two days after Instructure called the breach contained.
Education
Speedrunning a Bachelor's: Affordable Access or Diluted Diploma?
A North Carolina HR executive earned a bachelor's in three months and a master's in five weeks at UMaine Presque Isle's YourPace program. Accreditors are raising eyebrows. For the 43 million Americans with unfinished college credits, the math still looks pretty good.
AI
Turnitin Charges Millions for AI Detection It Admits Isn't Reliable
Universities are spending millions on Turnitin's AI writing detector. Stanford and MIT won't touch it. The tool admits a ±15% variance, and a Stanford study found it flags non-native English speakers 61% of the time.