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Book Recommendations List

The Free Press Forum Book Club, a book club run by The Free Press, is encouraging readers to join them in reading East of Eden, a novel by John Steinbeck, as part of their back-to-school season discussion group. The book is described as a…

Schools Overcrowding Crisis

Pallara State School, Brisbane's fourth-largest state primary school, is struggling with overcrowding despite multiple expansions since its construction in 1956. The school has a split-campus system, with one campus for prep and year 1…

Teaching with Artificial Intelligence

Jason Corso, an engineering professor at the University of Michigan, noticed that students were using AI tools, like LLM, more and more to do their work. He observed that some students claimed they only used AI to verify their work, but…

Decline of Academic Tenure

Tyler Austin Harper, an African American professor, left a secure position at Bates College due to his frustration with the campus culture, which he felt was obsessed with race and diversity. He wrote about this experience in The Atlantic…

Student Suspension Policies

The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into Fayetteville Public Schools in Arkansas, saying that teachers there were directed to consider a student's racial identity when issuing discipline, which is against federal…

College Sorority Rush Week

At Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, sorority sisters from the Tri Delta chapter spent 12 hours a day for eight days preparing for rush week, which brings together hundreds of young women hoping to join their sorority. The…

ACT Public School Budget Cuts

Forty-three ACT public schools will receive about the same amount of money as this year, while 31 will see an increase of more than 5%, and 18 schools will see their funding drop by more than 5% due to a budget shake-up announced by the…

Anti-Muslim Curriculum Scandal

In the North Monterey County Unified School District in California, a high school course called "Unit 3" is teaching students that the US has a history of targeting Muslim communities, using Osama bin Laden's manifesto as proof. The…

Moral Absolutism Debate

A group of influential thinkers from ancient Greece to medieval Europe, including Aristotle, Cicero, and Boethius, believed that leaders in a society should possess exceptional virtues. They thought that those who held power should have…

AI Impact on Academia

Law professors at a workshop discussed how they are using AI to generate text in their own writing style. One professor shared that he had trained the AI on his past publications to create content similar to his own scholarly voice. This…

University Chancellor Sex Scandal

Joe Gow, the Chancellor of University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, has been fired from his position after it was discovered that he appeared in pornographic videos. According to Gow himself, this discovery was made by the regents (who govern…

Back to School Organization

Canadians will spend around $4.5 billion on back-to-school expenses this year, with each child averaging $600 to $750 in costs. To combat the chaos that can come with back-to-school season, The Curator recommends several simple…