When roughly 60,000 year 12 students sit down to do their final English exam in New South Wales each year, they have no idea what texts they’ll be asked to analyse. Read more

Savannah O’Connor, a junior in Rowan University’s College of Education, doesn’t have much free time. She balances her regular classwork with weekly classroom observations, all while studying for the challenging Praxis Subject Tests, which she must pass to become a certified teacher. Read more

Artificially intelligent hiring tools do not reduce bias or improve diversity, researchers say in a study. Read more

Bethel University notified its campus community this week that it is making “tough cuts” to a number of academic programs. Read more

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) agreed to pause all gender transition surgeries performed on minors after an exposé by Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh on its Pediatric Transgender Clinic drew national attention. Read more

Students who use collaborative annotation tools learn and build community, according to a new study. Many faculty members are enthusiastic proponents of the tools, even while acknowledging their limitations. Read more

Global balance of research power shows signs of shifting as US stagnates and China improves Read more

University of Florida students and faculty are protesting the possible naming of Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) as the institution’s next president. Read more

The 70,000 students at the University of Central Florida will now have better protection of their free speech rights thanks to a settlement in a federal lawsuit. Read more

Researchers have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play the 1970s tennis-like video game, Pong. Read more