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National Education Association faces EEOC antisemitism complaint

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NPR Education

Making a podcast helped one family talk about aging, dementia and death

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MIT News·higher-ed

Photonics advance could enable compact, high-performance lidar sensors

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New study measures whether school cell phone bans actually work

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Brickbat: Tell Us Your Name

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Open Thread

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Inside Higher Ed·higher-ed

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What Financial Survival in Higher Ed Looks Like

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How a Professor Turned His Firing Into a Nationwide Fight for Academic Freedom

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Fifth of U.K. Universities Publicly Embrace ‘Political Neutrality’

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ADL Finds Campus Antisemitism Declined in 2025

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