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Small and seasonal US businesses rely on about 100,000 international students to boost their staff each summer. Loading audio narration… This year, though, demand threatens to outweigh supply.”We’re seeing the same number of businesses participate. However, the requested number of supplemental participants might be slightly less,” Kasey Simon, president of…

Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s chief technology officer, has some simple advice for aspiring technologists: Start building — now. Loading audio narration… The executive hosted an Ask Me Anything on his Instagram account this week and answered a college freshman’s question about how to enter the industry.”You just have to immerse yourself…

AI is adding pressure to the already heavy decision of choosing a college major. Loading audio narration… One in six students, roughly 16%, say they’ve changed their major because of AI’s impact on the job market, according to a survey from Gallup and Lumina Foundation of around 3,800 students.The report,…

I still remember the November when ChatGPT came out, and the exam period that followed.As a professor at Harvard, I had B+ writers submitting essays with em dashes and Oxford commas, as if they had just signed with Penguin. Just as their writing magically improved, their voices began to blur into what we…

Last year, our family of five moved interstate. We’d been living in Bright in country Victoria, Australia, for four years, and I wanted to move closer to my parents on the Gold Coast in Queensland.The Gold Coast is Australia’s sixth-largest city, home to more than 680,000 residents. Bright, on the…

For more than a decade, I taught in public high schools. I believed deeply in standards, benchmarks, and measurable outcomes. I trusted data. I tracked growth. I aligned objectives. Success, to me, meant progress you could prove. Loading audio narration… I wasn’t wrong. But I wasn’t seeing the whole picture…