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American parents join their kids in hating school, with Gallup polling falling to record low

Just 32% of American adults say they are “completely” or “somewhat” satisfied with the U.S. school system, according to Gallup polling.

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The trick to getting kids to stop trusting AI: Ask it to draw a map of the world

Kids laughed as Mali was spelled “Mail.” Egypt was identified as “Sopth.” In place of Libya was something simply called “Africa.”

21.08.2026 10

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Techlash grows in education: ‘My daughter went to middle school and was sent home with a screen addiction in her backpack’

Schools handed kids laptops. Now parents call it a $1.6 billion mistake.

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Meet a 20-year-old student who changed her major to marketing to ‘AI-proof’ her career

“You don’t just want to be able to code. You want to be able to have a conversation, form relationships and be able to think critically, because...

27.04.2026 10

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The Gen Z stare meets the mysterious perfect homework assignment in the age of ChatGPT. Enter the oral exam

“You won’t be able to AI your way through an oral exam,” says Cornell's Chris Schaffer, who introduced the oral defense last semester.

23.04.2026 10

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Meet a professor fed up with AI slop who made her whole class use typewriters instead of computers

"What’s the point of me reading it if it’s already correct anyway, and you didn’t write it yourself?"

31.03.2026 10

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‘You won’t be able to AI your way through an oral exam’: Colleges have an Ancient Greek-style solution to the Gen Z stare

“It comes across as if we’re trying to prevent cheating,” the University of Pennsylvania's Emily Hammer says. “That’s not why we’re doing this."

25.03.2026 10

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Harvard is too ‘woke’ for Trump’s Pentagon

Pete Hegseth said too many officers come back "looking too much like Harvard — heads full of globalist and radical ideologies."

07.02.2026 20

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Why OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic are funding millions in teacher training: ‘AI, like it or not, is part of our world’

Microsoft CEO Brad Smith agrees teachers should have a “healthy dose of skepticism” about tech companies. "We have to be careful. It's early days.

17.10.2025 10

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ChatGPT bans evolve into ‘AI literacy’ as colleges scramble to answer the question: ‘what is cheating?’

“The cheating is off the charts. It’s the worst I’ve seen in my entire career,” says Casey Cuny, who has taught English for 23 years.

12.09.2025 20

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Trump ordered to restore millions in frozen science funding to UCLA

The school’s chancellor said last week that the Trump administration has pulled $584 million in federal grants from various federal agencies.

15.08.2025 20

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Trump administration seeks $1 billion settlement from UCLA

UCLA is the first public university to be targeted by a widespread funding freeze over allegations of civil rights violations related to antisemitism...

09.08.2025 20

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Teachers who used AI tools to help with grading and lessons say it saves them 6 hours a week

A poll released Wednesday by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation found 6 in 10 U.S. teachers working in K-12 public schools used AI tools for...

25.06.2025 30

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