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Matt Barnum

ARTICLES BY MATT BARNUM

Columbia University has agreed not to use applicants’ essays to introduce discrimination in admissions, which it says reflects an ‘ongoing commitment’ to following the law. (AFP)

Trump’s next fight with universities: Racial ‘proxies’ in admissions

5 min read . 24 Aug 2025

The Education Department’s research arm has produced basic facts about schools and supported studies of specific programs. Photo: allison dinner/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Trump’s job cuts leave a profession looking for its next act

4 min read . 18 Aug 2025

Linda McMahon, US education secretary. McMahon appearing before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing last month. (File Photo: Bloomberg)

Trump’s $7 billion education funding freeze blindsides schools

4 min read . 04 Jul 2025

Alexandra Citrin-Safadi/WSJ

There’s a good chance your kid uses AI to cheat

9 min read . 16 Mar 2025

Computer and internet use in schools grew rapidly in the 1990s, alongside technology’s rise in everyday life. (Image: Pexel)

Screens have taken over classrooms. Even students have had enough.

10 min read . 23 Jan 2025

Trump has promised to close the Education Department and has criticized U.S. school spending.

Trump gears up for assault on wokeness with education overhaul

4 min read . 12 Nov 2024

An OpenAI spokeswoman said the company is concerned the tool could disproportionately affect groups such as non-native English speakers. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo (REUTERS)

A tool to catch students cheating with ChatGPT. OpenAI hasn’t released it

6 min read . 04 Aug 2024

The money helped students gain some academic ground and made the biggest difference for the nation’s poorest schools, which received the most money.

Here’s what $200 billion in covid money did for students

3 min read . 26 Jun 2024

Khan Academy founder Sal Khan

Sal Khan has big dreams for AI in education. Are they too big?

5 min read . 07 Mar 2024

Betsy Sumner in 2022.

Why Teachers Are Still Leaving the Profession

4 min read . 04 Mar 2024

Harvard’s interim president wrote that the university will review the situation ‘to determine what further steps are warranted.’

Harvard Condemns Antisemitic Image Circulated by Student and Faculty Groups

2 min read . 21 Feb 2024

FILE - Instructional materials are posted on a wall of a kindergarten class in Maryland on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. The proportion of U.S. kindergartners exempted from school attendance vaccination requirements has hit its highest level ever, 3%, U.S. health officials said Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File) (AP)

When Covid Hit, They Were in Diapers. So Why Are Kindergarteners Struggling?

2 min read . 12 Jan 2024

An international assessment was administered last year for the first time since the pandemic. PHOTO: MATT ROURKE/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pandemic Learning Loss Hit the U.S. Hard. It’s as Bad or Worse Across the World.

2 min read . 05 Dec 2023