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Pedestrians walk on campus at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on Oct. 1, 2026. The allegations surrounding the so-called Cornell 7 have renewed questions about consent, sexual violence and how young people are educated about sexual health. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

We need stronger sexual health education — the ‘Cornell 7’ case shows why

Allegations of sexual assault at Cornell University, and the public response to them, reveal persistent misunderstandings about consent, bystander responsibility and sexual violence.
High school students, teachers and trade unions unite to demonstrate on Paris’ historic Place de la Nation during the national day of protest action on October 6. Since late September, students have been blocking the entrances to hundreds of high schools, denouncing the lack of teaching staff, overcrowded schedules, dilapidated classrooms and buildings unfit for rising temperatures. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP

Why the student protests in France and the government’s response are unprecedented and unpredictable

Student outcry against the limited means of France’s education system is nothing new, but the global context and the nature of the movement which began in the suburbs are, and so is the government’s initial, confrontational reaction.
Reading and writing have lost their primacy in our post-literate society, and yet PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) tests reading skills for a world in which those skills are no longer valued. Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock

Why banning AI in the classroom will not be enough to remedy poor reading skills in a post‑literary society

Understanding the technological shift from a literary to a post-literary society is crucial for rethinking AI’s place in learning environments.
School choice gives families options, but not all families necessarily have the same ones. Andrii Yalanskyi/iStock via Getty Images Plus

School choice proponents say it offers families more options – but those don’t always extend to immigrant students

School choice heavily influences immigrant students’ experiences in Charleston schools and can leave them in segregated academic environments, new findings show.
Comparing different sources, evaluating information… these reading comprehension skills are exactly what’s needed in an information-saturated world. Shutterstock France (no reuse)

PISA 2025 rankings: are we asking the right questions about schooling?

Are education systems succeeding in transforming individual abilities into collective opportunities? This is what rankings ought to be measuring rather than reducing education to a few figures.
Graduation day at University of Brescia (Italy), which is affiliated with Unita, one of several programs co-funded by the EU supporting higher education communities and designed to promote European citizenship and identity. Paradise at risk/Shutterstock

Nearly 30 years after Erasmus, university alliances are reshaping Europe’s higher education landscape but still lack visibility

Greater awareness of common EU values is needed to foster educational ties between higher education institutional systems across the continent.
Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration demanding educational reforms as part of the Cockroach Janta Party’s ongoing protest movement in Mumbai, India, on July 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

What India’s ‘cockroach’ protests reveal about youth, solidarity and hope

The Cockroach Janta Party protests are significant not just as a reaction to one judge’s insult, but because the way the movement has organized offers a hopeful model of democratic solidarity.
Afghan schoolgirls pose for a photo in a classroom in Kabul, Afghanistan, in December 2022. The Taliban ordered women nationwide to stop attending private and public universities until further notice. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

I lived through the first Taliban girls’ school ban — watching it happen again is heartbreaking

The author was banned from school by the Taliban as a girl in 1996. Years after the Taliban returned to power in 2021, she asks why the international community’s response has fallen so short.
Afghan schoolgirls pose for a photo in a classroom in Kabul, Afghanistan, in December 2022. The Taliban ordered women nationwide to stop attending private and public universities until further notice. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

I lived through the first Taliban girls’ school ban — watching it happen again is heartbreaking

The author was banned from school by the Taliban as a girl in 1996. Years after the Taliban returned to power in 2021, she asks why the international community’s response has fallen so short.

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