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In the News
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California Community Colleges and Google launch systemwide higher education AI partnership
California's community college students will have access to Google career certificates, expanding on a pilot program that Stanford Digital Education's Mike Acedo helped build.
September 11, 2025
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‘The new encyclopedia’: how some kids will use AI at school this year
In an article about technology use in K-12 classrooms, CNN Business quotes Vice Provost for Digital Education Matthew Rascoff advocating for tools that enhance social learning.
August 26, 2025
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Can Stanford’s AI curriculum reshape high school education?
A Stanford course on AI for high school students is flexible, adaptable, and designed with practical and ethical considerations in mind, according to Online Education.
August 13, 2025
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From cell to cell: Kyle Cole builds bridges for nontraditional learners at Stanford
Mike Acedo of Stanford Digital Education is quoted in this report from the Stanford Daily on campus efforts to coordinate and advance programs for nontraditional students.
June 19, 2025
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Topeka High grad credits a class with helping her get to Georgetown
13 WIBW, a television station in Topeka, Kansas, highlights how taking courses through the National Education Equity Lab contributed to a college-going student's success.
June 03, 2025
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Newark students learn the basics of AI as they weigh its use in their future careers
Chalkbeat Newark reports on the implementation of an AI curriculum in the classroom of Mike Taubman, a teacher and Stanford Digital Education fellow.
May 06, 2025
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Spotlight on Varun Madan, undergraduate computer science student at Stanford Engineering
Varun Madan, a teaching fellow for CS 105: Introduction to Computers, shares what drew him to Stanford and what he finds rewarding about teaching and mentoring high schoolers.
March 18, 2025
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Understanding measles, a highly infectious but preventable disease
Pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Charles Prober of Stanford Medicine shared information about measles with SDE's Jenny Robinson for a Q&A on the Digital Medic blog.
March 17, 2025
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Three questions on ‘Digital Education for Access and Equity’
A Q&A with Annie Sadler, Martin Kurzweil, and Matthew Rascoff published in Inside Higher Ed explores their chapter in a new book, Recentering Learning.
February 20, 2025
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How higher education can win back America
Michael Roth, Wesleyan's president, argues in the New York Times that universities can recover the public's good will by bringing opportunities to new groups of learners.
December 27, 2024
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The Ed Equity Lab, a leading college pipeline, achieves great success
Michael Nietzel, writing in Forbes, describes how a collaboration between universities and the National Education Equity Lab prepares low-income students to thrive in college.
November 26, 2024
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Preliminary admissions data for class of 2028 shows drop in Black, Latino enrollment
Among the strategies for outreach to underrepresented populations is strengthening the program that offers Stanford courses to Title I high schools, per the Stanford Daily.
October 02, 2024
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Stanford releases preliminary enrollment data for Class of 2028
The class is the first to be admitted under last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on college admissions, explains Stanford Report.
October 01, 2024
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Wheels of change: Stanford Spokes cyclists tackle education awareness
The Stanford Daily reports on the Stanford Spokes' efforts to bring dynamic STEM education to under-resourced communities.
September 25, 2024
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How to make AI work for higher education
Vice Provost Matthew Rascoff's piece, republished on Work Shift, argues that research and regulatory frameworks from other sectors could add value in the ed tech space.
July 24, 2024
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South Texas College (STC) inspires Stanford University to implement Google IT certificate
A story on the community college's website describes how Stanford Digital Education consulted with STC faculty to devise a program for Bay Area community colleges.
June 25, 2024
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Colleges reinstating the ACT/SAT should add a program like this too
Selective universities can identify talented low-income students by offering dual credit courses with the National Education Equity Lab, writes Michael Nietzel in Forbes.
May 23, 2024
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Topeka High students' critical thinking draws visit from Stanford University professor
This is the second year that Greg Watkins' ethics course, "Searching Together for the Common Good," has been offered at Topeka High School through Stanford Digital Education.
May 15, 2024
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Inside the first-of-its-kind computer science class Antioch High offers with Stanford
Students at Antioch High School are learning the basics of how the internet works, along with introductory coding, reports the Nashville Tennessean.
December 11, 2023
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Bringing college-level work closer to home
Underserved and justice-impacted students at Niagara Falls High School are taking a Stanford computer science course after school, reports the Niagara Gazette.
November 15, 2023