Carnegie Foundation and ETS launch a major initiative to develop competency-based assessments, which could change how high school students show college and workforce readiness. Read more

Chinese surveillance technology giant Hikvision has denied it is illegally disguising its products sold to the US government to enable Chinese espionage. Read more

If your college or university is in Wyoming, you might be safe—or at least a little safer—from education data breaches. Some 32 million records have been compromised in nearly 2,700 education data breaches over the last two decades. About half of those attacks hit higher education, yet colleges and universities account for more than 80% of records hacked. Read more

Campus Reform surveyed the entire US and found instances of K-12 public school districts carrying children’s books with messaging about “gender identity,” some including sexually explicit material. Read more

UF is just one of at least 16 colleges and universities that received a hoax call of a campus threat in April, according to an analysis by The Alligator. Read more

State Senate has already passed one of three bills that would end tenure, force universities to fire professors who “attempt to compel” certain beliefs, and ban what the legislation defines as diversity, equity and inclusion programming Read more

Universities should “decolonize” their business school curriculum, according to a senior administrator and professor at King’s College in London. Read more

The winner of a major photography award has refused his prize after revealing his work was in fact an AI creation. Read more

Private colleges are boasting about a record year, but most of them will have to wait until May 1. Read more

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced a financial expansion of the Tuition-Free Community College Plan, which will now cover up to three years of college tuition for illegal immigrants. Read more