President and Administration
President Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Friday, 2/25, setting in motion a historic confirmation process for the first Black woman to sit on the highest court in the nation…
The State of the Union (SOTU) is scheduled for tomorrow, 3/1, in the House chamber in the Capitol…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began late Wednesday evening, 2/23, kicking off the most significant military incursion in Europe since World War II…
Congress
A report from Moody’s Analytics defends the American Rescue Plan (ARP) saying that “the ARP has been criticized as being too large, overstimulating an already fast-improving economy and significantly contributing to the currently uncomfortably high inflation”…
On Friday, 2/25, the Department of Education released a new fact sheet highlighting ways states and school districts are using American Rescue Plan funds to reengage students and enhance academic learning by expanding career and technical education (CTE) opportunities…
Nearly 90 percent of the next House could be occupied by lawmakers who face almost no threat of losing a general election, a precipitous drop that dramatically changes the political incentives and pressures they confront…
Education
Last week, the National Science Board published “Higher Education in Science and Engineering,” a new set of congressionally mandated STEM indicators…
In some districts, proposals aimed at making schools more welcoming places for students from diverse backgrounds have been reversed as a result of a conservative takeover of school boards, while work elsewhere faces a chill from acrimonious debate around topics that have been mislabeled as critical race theory…
Puerto Rico and eight states are asking the Department of Education to waive a requirement that stipulates they must continue funding higher education at or above current levels in order to keep the federal dollars they received during the pandemic…
The latest Student Voice survey from Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse found 1,550 of the 2,000 undergraduate student respondents will have student loan debt after graduation…
Enrollment and attendance in pre-K - especially among Black and Latino preschoolers - improves when programs operate for a full school day instead of a few hours in the morning or afternoon, a new study shows…
The Common Application has released its data (nationally, not for individual colleges) through 2/15 - and the numbers are very encouraging for colleges…