New House speaker passes first test: Avoid shutdown | View caption Hide caption The Senate is expected to pass the stopgap funding measure – known as a continuing resolution, or CR – well before the Friday night deadline. The measure would extend funding for some parts of the government until Jan. 19, 2024, and the rest until Feb. 2.…
First Look Clean energy projects spur disputes. New MIT course trains mediators. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is offering a first-of-its-kind course that trains students to be mediators in conflicts over green energy projects. Students work directly with developers, local officials, and community members. | View caption Hide caption | As the United States injects…
AI may disrupt math and computer science classes. Is there an upside? | View caption Hide caption For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha – a website that solves algebraic problems online – has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. Teachers learned to work around and with it, says Dr. Price,…
Transformation Europe Chinese, Iranian automakers woo Russians after Western brands leave | View caption Hide caption The auto market is one of the few areas in Russia where Western sanctions had an immediate effect. Today, Russia’s car industry has been transformed, with new players, foreign and domestic, stepping to the fore. But exhibition organizers say…
One way to boost math scores? Help teachers conquer their math anxiety. | View caption Hide caption “I am Wendi. Wendi is me,” said Ivory McCormick, a kindergarten teacher from Atlanta. Several educators in the classroom identified with Wendi, and that was the point. Decades of research shows that math anxiety is a common problem…
Perseverance Education Pre-K for all: What does it take to get every child an education? | View caption Hide caption Getting all children schooling before kindergarten is generally accepted as a boon to both students’ learning and parents’ livelihood. But what’s the best way to do it? State rollouts are showing that making it work…
A congressional committee investigating pandemic relief fraud is demanding that the Justice Department provide documents and information describing the extent to which international criminal groups plundered those programs, according to a letter obtained exclusively by NBC News. The letter, from the Republican-controlled House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, asks Attorney General Merrick Garland to…
Welcome to The Check-In, our weekend feature focusing on all things travel. Celebrate a trailblazer at the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum On July 24, it will be 126 years since Amelia Earhart, the awe-inspiring aviator who broke flying records before vanishing in 1937, was born in Atchison, Kansas. In her honor, consider a visit to…
Before we reform tax policy, we need to know what’s working Congress and President Trump are embarking on what is likely to be a major rewrite of the federal income tax code. Yet no one knows whether the hundreds of tax preferences embedded in the law accomplish their purpose. | View caption Hide caption Congress…
Washington rushing to put guardrails on AI – fast enough? | View caption Hide caption “We don’t have a lot of time,” CEO Dario Amodei of Anthropic, a San Francisco-based firm that aims to create “reliable, beneficial” AI systems, told senators last week. “Whatever we do, we have to do it fast.” The reason for…