Education

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced new interagency partnerships that will shift key U.S. Department of Education functions, including special education oversight and civil rights enforcement, to other federal agencies, further advancing President Donald Trump's push to shrink the...

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) Vice Chair and President Brad Smith is offering career advice to students navigating AI-driven job disruption. In an interview with Axios published Tuesday, Smith said growing fear around AI and jobs is being amplified by hype from parts of the tech industry...

More than 300,000 federal student loan borrowers have exited the defunct SAVE repayment plan in recent weeks, but millions remain at risk as deadlines approach. Nicholas Kent, a top official at the U.S. Department of Education, told CNBC on Thursday that borrowers still enrolled in the Biden-era...

President Donald Trump was once a cryptocurrency critic but had a change of heart ahead of Election Day 2024. Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and other digital assets enjoyed a massive surge in the weeks that followed. A year and a half later, cryptocurrency is trading lower than it was when Trump won the...

Elon Musk is the richest person in the world and the upcoming SpaceX IPO is set to make him even richer. Here's a look at Musk's wealth and just how far ahead he is of the everyday common man or woman. • Tesla shares are climbing with conviction. Why is TSLA stock surging? Musk's Net Worth...

Many Gen Z students are arriving at college unable to complete reading assignments at levels previously expected, prompting professors to change how they teach and raising concerns about the long-term impact on learning, critical thinking and social development. Some educators say students are...

More than 60 Democratic lawmakers, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), urged Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Sunday to provide student debt relief to eligible borrowers and halt plans to transfer defaulted student-loan accounts to the Treasury Department. The lawmakers called on the...

Children’s wellbeing in the U.S. declined between 2019 and 2024, with children in 29 states faring worse than before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2026 KIDS COUNT Data Book released Monday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a nonprofit organization...

As artificial intelligence reshapes the workplace, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark has some unexpected career advice for young people worried about their future: develop a hobby. The remarks come as Anthropic says its AI assistant Claude now generates roughly 80% of the code used within the startup...

As artificial intelligence reshapes industries and education, billionaire investor Mark Cuban and entrepreneur Peter Diamandis are clashing over whether traditional college degrees still justify their soaring costs. Diamandis Questions The Value Of College Degrees On Friday, Diamandis took X and...

Young college graduates may be struggling to find jobs because of remote work rather than artificial intelligence, according to new research published Monday by the New York Federal Reserve’s Liberty Street Economics blog. The researchers found that the rise of remote work since the pandemic...

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is launching an investigation into the Trump administration’s transfer of Education Department programs to other federal agencies, including a review of student loan default collections being moved to the...

Student loan borrowers who take out new federal loans or consolidate existing debt after July 1 could face fewer repayment and loan-forgiveness options under changes enacted through President Donald Trump‘s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Financial planners and student loan experts told CNBC that...

Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) recently became the newest member of the $1 trillion market capitalization club. While it took many years for the technology giant to reach the milestone, it may never have been achievable without a $1 million investment from a potato farmer in Idaho. J.R. Simplot and...

Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) stock is surging this week after the company reported quarterly financial results. The company has gone public twice in its history, rejoining the public markets in 2018 after a 2013 buyout took the company private. Here's a look at how the stock has performed since...