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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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2026946 stories
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments↗ mezha.net · HN · 282 comments · 658 points · Aug 08, 2026
Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 107 comments · 836 points · Jul 17, 2026
Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes↗ dailycal.org · HN · 791 comments · 834 points · Jun 04, 2026
Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM↗ latimes.com · HN · 868 comments · 654 points · May 28, 2026
Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom↗ undark.org · HN · 432 comments · 902 points · Apr 02, 2026
20251,029 stories
Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?↗ reason.com · HN · 1021 comments · 766 points · Dec 04, 2025
Study mode↗ openai.com · HN · 805 comments · 1130 points · Jul 29, 2025
I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt↗ huffpost.com · HN · 867 comments · 589 points · May 04, 2025
The average college student today↗ hilariusbookbinder.substack.com · HN · 984 comments · 777 points · Mar 30, 2025
I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled↗ linkedin.com · HN · 698 comments · 1349 points · Jan 08, 2025
20241,074 stories
Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT↗ news.mit.edu · HN · 459 comments · 737 points · Nov 20, 2024
California bans legacy admissions at private universities↗ nytimes.com · HN · 619 comments · 585 points · Sep 30, 2024
How America's universities became debt factories↗ anandsanwal.me · HN · 544 comments · 492 points · Sep 14, 2024
Fast Crimes at Lambda School↗ sandofsky.com · HN · 332 comments · 610 points · Jun 19, 2024
New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift↗ bbc.com · HN · 411 comments · 491 points · Feb 26, 2024
20231,373 stories
Scholars asked Harvard President Claudine Gay for her data. She said no.↗ dossier.today · HN · 89 comments · 94 points · Dec 27, 2023
Medical schools do not prepare students to care for autistic or disabled people↗ statnews.com · HN · 170 comments · 174 points · Dec 24, 2023
When your classmates threaten you with felony charges↗ miles.land · HN · 41 comments · 81 points · Aug 28, 2023
Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of legacy status in admissions↗ triblive.com · HN · 56 comments · 100 points · Jul 19, 2023
43% of white Harvard students are legacy, athlete, or donor/staff related (2019)↗ nbcnews.com · HN · 75 comments · 81 points · Jul 02, 2023
20221,315 stories
The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted education programs (2021)↗ teachforamerica.org · HN · 872 comments · 796 points · Jun 08, 2022
My students cheated... a lot↗ crumplab.com · HN · 1402 comments · 1840 points · May 28, 2022
Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles↗ mitadmissions.org · HN · 1100 comments · 1191 points · Mar 28, 2022
I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears↗ twitter.com · HN · 1059 comments · 696 points · Mar 20, 2022
More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years↗ npr.org · HN · 1129 comments · 717 points · Jan 13, 2022
20211,285 stories
American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math' (2017)↗ wbur.org · HN · 525 comments · 465 points · Aug 09, 2021
A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities↗ economist.com · HN · 1264 comments · 651 points · Jun 23, 2021
USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)↗ news.usc.edu · HN · 100 comments · 463 points · Jun 21, 2021
We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college↗ kansascity.com · HN · 396 comments · 539 points · Jan 18, 2021
School or Prison↗ schoolprison.com · HN · 475 comments · 708 points · Jan 01, 2021
20201,834 stories
Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year↗ reddit.com · HN · 431 comments · 602 points · Dec 14, 2020
University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online Degree Programs↗ uopeople.edu · HN · 464 comments · 725 points · Jun 11, 2020
Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images↗ theverge.com · HN · 553 comments · 669 points · May 20, 2020
MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester↗ web.mit.edu · HN · 586 comments · 1027 points · Mar 10, 2020
The missing semester of CS education↗ missing.csail.mit.edu · HN · 196 comments · 1163 points · Feb 03, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe↗ economist.com · HN · 408 comments · 206 points · Sep 26, 2026
Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?↗ theeducatorsroom.com · HN · 274 comments · 125 points · Sep 28, 2026
Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)↗ cs.cmu.edu · HN · 21 comments · 58 points · Sep 25, 2026
PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD↗ oecd.org · HN · 169 comments · 131 points · Sep 08, 2026
AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study↗ economist.com · HN · 383 comments · 384 points · Aug 19, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe↗ economist.com · HN · 408 comments · 206 points · Sep 26, 2026
PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD↗ oecd.org · HN · 169 comments · 131 points · Sep 08, 2026
Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?↗ theeducatorsroom.com · HN · 274 comments · 125 points · Sep 28, 2026
The Education of a Doomer↗ borretti.me · HN · 61 comments · 68 points · Sep 07, 2026
Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)↗ cs.cmu.edu · HN · 21 comments · 58 points · Sep 25, 2026
Making Teenagers Read Newspapers. A Nationwide Experiment in French High Schools↗ cepr.org · HN · 69 comments · 44 points · Sep 08, 2026
US Reading Scores Plummet on Global Exam↗ nytimes.com · HN · 17 comments · 41 points · Sep 08, 2026
Unsolved Problem by Fields Medalist Breached by Two High School Students↗ htx.com · HN · 59 comments · 34 points · Sep 14, 2026
Show HN: Academa – Long-form STEM lecture videos generated by LLMs↗ academa.ai · HN · 26 comments · 30 points · Aug 30, 2026
Harvard Professor on Why You Should Learn C in 2026 [video]↗ youtube.com · HN · 20 comments · 27 points · Aug 31, 2026

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