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France to shut up to 500 high schools amid student protests

France will fully or partly close as many as 500 high schools on Monday, Oct. 5. Education Minister Édouard Geffray said Sunday that classes will be "totally or partly suspended" at 400 to 500 lycées where security conditions "have not…

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France shuts 400 schools as student protests turn violent

About 400 French high schools stayed shut on Friday, roughly one in 10 nationwide, after student protests over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and crumbling buildings turned into clashes with police, arson attacks on schools and hundreds of arrests. Education Minister…

OpenAI commits $5M to study AI’s effects on teens

OpenAI on Tuesday announced a $5 million grant program to support independent research into how generative AI affects the lives of teenagers, as the company seeks to better understand the consequences of a technology that has rapidly woven itself into…

OECD finds daily AI use tied to lower scores in PISA 2025

Students who avoid AI chatbots for schoolwork are outperforming those who rely on them daily, according to the OECD's PISA 2025 report released Tuesday, offering some of the broadest evidence yet that the technology may be undermining children's learning.

Study links early social media use to lower grades years later

Children who open social media accounts at age 11 or 12 perform measurably worse in school four years later, according to a study published Monday in Nature Human Behaviour by researchers at the University of Milano-Bicocca.

Israel destroys 3 more schools in southern Lebanon

Lebanon's Education Minister Rima Karami accused the Israeli military of looting and demolishing three public schools in southern Lebanon, bringing the total number of educational institutions destroyed by Israeli forces to at least 20.

Study: AI-aided homework cuts exam scores by 20%

A large-scale study tracking 26,811 Chinese secondary students over 30 months has found that generative AI tools used to speed through homework are associated with sharply lower exam performance — even as the same technology shows promise when deployed as…

African Union backs campaign to fix world map distortions that shrink continent

The African Union has officially endorsed the "Correct The Map" campaign, joining a growing movement to replace the 16th-century Mercator projection with a more accurate world map that shows Africa's true size. The endorsement marks the first time the continental…