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Matt Barnum

ARTICLES BY MATT BARNUM

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