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New essay: School Years vs. AI Release Cycles.
Schools plan in years and universities in semesters. AI models now arrive in weeks. Education cannot match that pace, and should not try. It can teach what outlasts every release: verification, judgment, and how to steer any tool.
An interactive opening shows the two clocks side by side.
https://societyandai.org/perspectives/release-cycles-vs-school-years/
The Guardian view on nurseries: some things are going right for under-fives | Editorial
By Editorial
England’s strong results in an early learning study are a Sure Start legacy that ministers must build on
#Earlyyearseducation #Educationpolicy #Children #England #OECD #Childcare #Politics #Labour #Education #Primaryschools #UKnews #TheGuardian #Editorial
Can teaching schoolchildren about Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade remain optional? | Morgan Ofori
By Morgan Ofori
Mounting evidence about how slavery shaped Britain shows that teaching about its history cannot be a matter of choice
#Nationalcurriculum #Curriculums #Schools #Educationpolicy #BlackHistoryMonth #Slavery #Education #Politics #England #UKnews #TheGuardian #MorganOfori
The $20,500 Ceiling
Columbia's journalism school paused its midcareer degree three months after Washington capped what America will lend a journalist. The timing is the story. The email went out on a Thursday afternoon. On October 1, 2026, Dean Jelani Cobb told alumni of the Columbia Journalism School's Master of Arts program that admissions were paused for the coming cycle. The message landed in the inboxes of people who had paid six figures for the degree it described. The school, Cobb wrote, had begun "a critical evaluation" of the M.A. curriculum, and the pause would give the review "the focus it deserves." The school's admissions page now carries the same message and dangles a future "relaunch" for anyone willing to wait. […]