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"How Climate Education in Madagascar is Connecting Classrooms to Local Environmental Crisis"
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How Climate Education in Madagascar is Connecting Classrooms to Local Environmental Crisis | Happy Eco News
Climate education in Madagascar offers a replicable model for countries seeking to align national education goals with urgent local environmental and development challenges.

"COSiE: Community for Open Science in Education" @ OSCU (Open Science Community Utrecht)
https://openscience-utrecht.com/cosie/
"COSiE is an interdisciplinary community of UU and UMC staff members who want to make the process of sharing and using Open Education Resources (OERs) …

Each year, about 400,000 international students are granted study visas to the UK. A significant proportion do so with the help of education agents: middlemen paid by universities to find foreign students. In 2023, UK universities spent a total of £500m on education agents - but there is very little oversight of how these agents operate.

PragerU: ‘Masquerading as a university’: inside the brazen rightwing plan to conquer American schools
https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2026/apr/08/prageru-university-conservatism

‘Masquerading as a university’: inside the brazen rightwing plan to conquer American schools
As teachers eagerly adopt its free lesson plans and the White House boosts its videos, PragerU is intent on one goal: attracting young people to conservatism

This is an amazing quote: "Ed tech is just big tech in a sweater vest".
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/05/07/states-limit-school-screen-time/

Student loan debt tops $1.6 trillion
The average tuition has doubled in the past 30 years.
At the same time, new federal caps on how much parents can borrow for college placing higher education further out of reach for some families.
Against that backdrop, a growing number of schools are making college more affordable
by providing free tuition to undergraduate students from low- and middle-income families.
The movement dates back 20 years but has gained momen…

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So much in this on expertise, learning, the importance of libraries... 'Making breakfast on a burning planet: a parent’s perspective on a GenAI future' https://educationexpress.uts.edu.au/blog/2026/03/09/making-breakfast-on-a-burning-pla…

A deep dive into China's efforts to integrate AI into K-12 education to reduce teacher workloads, improve rural schools, and help students with disabilities (Lily Ottinger/ChinaTalk)
https://www.chinatalk.media/p/chinas-ai-education-experiment

China's AI Education Experiment
Pilot schools in China are already using AI to grade children’s artwork, monitor their facial expressions during lectures, and screen them for psychological problems — and the Ministry of Education (MOE) wants schools across the country to follow suit.

Education Department launches hiring spree in key office, roughly a year after mass layoffs (Rebecca Carballo/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/education-department-launches-hiring-spree-in-key-office-after-2025s-mass-layoffs-00912445
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p1#a260509p1

U.S. Department of Education Rescinds Illegal Title IX Resolution Agreements (U.S. Department of Education)
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-rescinds-illegal-title-ix-resolution-agreements
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p1#a260407p1