Author: Jerry Leger

Most people pass Finley Golf Course Road in Chapel Hill without giving it much thought. Behind it is a structure that, depending on who you ask, either quietly has too much influence over high school athletics in North Carolina or safeguards their integrity. The North Carolina High School Athletic Association is housed in that building, which recently underwent the biggest structural alteration of the modern era after more than a century of influencing athletic competition throughout the state. The NCHSAA increased its number of classifications from four to eight beginning with the 2025–2026 academic year. Since switching from three to…

During exam season, GP trainees experience a certain kind of quiet dread. Spreadsheets open. The timetables for revisions are displayed above desks. Additionally, a registrar is most likely staring at a screen in a busy NHS staffroom, attempting to figure out exactly how to schedule the Applied Knowledge Test. At least the last part will soon become simpler. It’s much harder to say whether everything else becomes easier. In the UK, the MRCGP Applied Knowledge Test, also referred to as the AKT exam, is a computer-based test that is at the heart of the path to becoming a general practitioner.…

The chef creating the menu for tonight is still a student at a restaurant in Hitchin. While serving, the waiters are picking up new skills. The head chef keeps an eye on things and offers advice and encouragement. Nevertheless, the food turns out nicely, sometimes exceptionally well. That location is The Meadows, a student-run eatery on the Hitchin Campus of North Herts College, and it says something subtly significant about the way this school views education. It’s not just theory on paper; it’s something you have to do. With its administrative headquarters in Letchworth Garden City, North Herts College, also…

It used to feel a certain way to sit down for an ACA exam: papers, pencils, and perhaps a few approved texts balanced awkwardly on a small desk. It’s a fading image. It has been replaced by something far more complicated, and the surprise can be costly for students who haven’t spent much time using the ICAEW exam software before their sitting day. ICAEW has been quietly but steadily updating the way it offers its ACA qualification. The exam software was created especially for ACA students with feedback from the students themselves. It is not an afterthought. That is noteworthy.…

This spring, something seems a little strange when you stroll through the graduate hallways of a large research university. There is a difference in the noise level. There are fewer Mandarin or Hindi conversations coming from computer science labs. There were fewer foreign students waiting to meet advisors in groups outside department offices. It’s subtle, but it’s there, and the data is finally catching up to what campus residents have been quietly observing for months. The Institute of International Education recently released data showing a 17% decline in new international student enrollment for fall 2025, which is the largest non-pandemic…

The final day of a legislative session has a distinct rhythm. The hallways get crowded. Phones are always buzzing. Legislators move more quickly than the public can keep up with, exchanging favors and whispered warnings. Additionally, a single call made at the perfect time can occasionally subtly undo months of meticulous work. That’s essentially what transpired in Jefferson City on Friday, when Missouri’s attempt to restructure oversight of its MOScholars private school voucher program failed without even a formal vote. Both parties supported the plan. The Senate had approved it the day before. It was moving forward. The bill was…

A decision such as this one is followed by a certain kind of silence. Not the silence of regret, but the kind that descends after you’ve taken an irreversible action and come to the realization that you meant it, somewhere between fear and adrenaline. Marcus didn’t immediately tell many people. At the age of seventeen, he was a junior-year sprinter with a 4.3 GPA and a 40-yard dash time that prompted college scouts to send him emails that his family screenshotted and stored on their phones. There was going to be a full athletic scholarship. It appeared that everyone in…

It’s almost ridiculous to refer to it as a “rainbow demonstration.” The name sounds bright, innocuous, and upbeat, like something from a kindergarten art class. However, it takes a completely different turn when a chemistry teacher uses open containers of methanol. Something that culminates in students being airlifted to hospitals and a school district apologizing while frantically drafting new regulations that it ought to have had long ago. During one of these “rainbow demonstrations,” which involve burning various metal salts to demonstrate to students how flames change color, a fire started on October 30 at a high school in Fairfax…

AP African American Studies was outlawed in Florida. The College Board then requested an explanation and bided their time. and held out. The College Board formally asked the Florida Department of Education to provide a written explanation of how the pilot course broke state law three times, starting in September 2022. Every time, it was promised that feedback would be provided. It didn’t. This silence is at the heart of a conflict that has spread far beyond a curriculum dispute in one state. The AP African American Studies course was rejected by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ Department of Education in…

When Vincent Montoya-Armanios was younger, he was merely attempting to obtain lunch. However, he was pulled aside by a school staff member between the tray line and the table, who instructed him to “speak to the manager.” Before allowing him to eat, the manager, a school official, questioned him about why he lacked money. This took place in Pennsylvania. The 2010s. Not in the midst of the Great Depression. Not in some far-off historical period of deliberate brutality. the previous ten years. Long after you’ve finished reading it, that story remains in your stomach. It’s also not an anomaly. Currently,…