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Exclusive | NYC’s ‘Balloon doctor’ will see you now — debt-strapped med grad’s quirky subway side hustle blows up with straphangers

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Exclusive | NYC’s ‘Balloon doctor’ will see you now — debt-strapped med grad’s quirky subway side hustle blows up with straphangers

For Brandon Axelrod, a 27-year-old physician at one of Manhattan’s most acclaimed medical facilities, it’d be easy to have an inflated ego.   But the $405,000 albatross that is his student loan debt keeps the Long Island native grounded.  It’s a humongous, humbling bill that the oral and maximal facial surgery resident is remitting with the help of helium.  … Read more

Ivy League teacher makes students use typewriters to fight against AI-written work

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Ivy League teacher makes students use typewriters to fight against AI-written work

The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line. Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance. No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers, or delete … Read more

Professor reveals the telltale sign students are using AI in their assignments

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Professor reveals the telltale sign students are using AI in their assignments

Move over em-dash, there’s a new AI giveaway. It’s hard to deny that AI is everywhere these days, and it’s no surprise that it’s making its way into classrooms. Since sneaky students are figuring out how to take the easy way out by using ChatGPT to do their homework or write their essays, one college … Read more

Exclusive | Tony Danza dishes on canceled ‘Who’s the Boss’ spinoff, shelved Sebastian Maniscalco sitcom

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Exclusive | Tony Danza dishes on canceled ‘Who’s the Boss’ spinoff, shelved Sebastian Maniscalco sitcom

It would have been a boss move. Tony Danza was champing at the bit to dust off his apron and reprise his iconic “Who’s the Boss” role opposite TV daughter Alyssa Milano in a spinoff about the pair living in a woke world. “We had a shot at it. I thought it might happen,” Danza, … Read more

Exclusive | Lesson in Love: First-ever college professor on ‘Love Is Blind,’ reveals wild students’ reactions

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Exclusive | Lesson in Love: First-ever college professor on ‘Love Is Blind,’ reveals wild students’ reactions

He’s too cool for school. Brooklyn native Vic St. John is the first college professor to ever be cast on “Love Is Blind” — and he’s getting a crash course in being a reality show star. The Ohio State University public policy professor now has to stay after class for students who want to pose … Read more

Typo on students’ homework proves how tired and overworked teachers are

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Typo on students’ homework proves how tired and overworked teachers are

Mistakes are bound to happen. When a mom innocently shared a photo of a small typo spotted on her five-year-old’s homework assignment on social media, she received an unexpected lesson on teacher burnout. In her TikTok video, with overlay text that read, “The homework our five year old came home with,” the surprised mom zoomed … Read more

Teacher shocked by students’ lack of basic classroom skills: ‘It’s scaring me’

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Teacher shocked by students’ lack of basic classroom skills: ‘It’s scaring me’

Are kids these days doomed? A concerned middle school teacher recently took to social media to explain the lack of reading and problem-solving skills in her teen students. “I don’t understand how these kids ended up at this point,” a Dallas, Texas, teacher named Ms. L said about her 8th-grade students in a now-viral TikTok … Read more

Heavy-drinking college students damage friends’ mental, emotional health, study finds

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Heavy-drinking college students damage friends’ mental, emotional health, study finds

Heavy-drinking students damage their pals’ physical and mental health as well as their own, according to new research. The harms of incessant boozing among college students — such as lower grades, mental distress, and even suicidal thoughts — are linked to being exposed to a drinker’s poor behavior, say scientists. One-in-three college-age students said they … Read more

Education costs are higher than ever — yet teens aren’t learning basic life skills. Here’s what they need

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Education costs are higher than ever — yet teens aren’t learning basic life skills. Here’s what they need

Parents across the country are shelling out more money than ever before on education costs for their children. In New York City, the average private school parent is paying $27,322 for high school tuition, with some prestigious schools topping $70,000. Additionally, families are making enormous expenditures on back-to-school supplies as well as tutoring, test prep, … Read more

Here’s the secret formula for getting into a top-choice college after being deferred

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Here’s the secret formula for getting into a top-choice college after being deferred

After meticulously polishing application materials, hitting submit during the early admissions round, and enduring the agonizing wait for an admissions decision, thousands of students opened their application portals this week to find the word no applicant wants to see: deferred. Despite the disappointment that comes with a deferral, this outcome means that students have another shot … Read more

Dear Abby: I’m a teacher, and I hate it when parents ask me to write farewell notes to students

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Dear Abby: I’m a teacher, and I hate it when parents ask me to write farewell notes to students

DEAR ABBY: I am a teacher. I love my job, and I love my students. However, as I near the end of my 26th year of teaching, there’s something I need to get off my chest. At the end of every school year, many parents ask me to write a personal note to their student … Read more

Student, 20, drops dead during hike from little-known condition that affects 1 in 250

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Student, 20, drops dead during hike from little-known condition that affects 1 in 250

What a complete shock. Two years ago, a 20-year-old student at the University of Cambridge collapsed and died without any warning signs while hiking in southern France — and now her family is doing everything possible to prevent others from experiencing this same type of unexpected tragedy. Clarissa Nicholls was described as a healthy and … Read more

Texas teacher files police report after her $300 Hello Kitty collectible is stolen by a student: ‘I mean business’

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Texas teacher files police report after her 0 Hello Kitty collectible is stolen by a student: ‘I mean business’

She’s teaching these kids a lesson they won’t soon forget.   The schoolyard to jailyard pipeline may soon be welcoming another troubled youth, as a ticked-off teacher is calling the cops on a student who robbed her of a trendy trinket valued at nearly $300.  But rather than rallying around the educator with support, nagging naysayers on the internet … Read more

Students identifying as nonbinary are on the decline, according to a new study

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Students identifying as nonbinary are on the decline, according to a new study

New data suggests that fewer young adults are identifying as nonbinary, a term that refers to individuals who do not identify as male or female. Eric Kaufmann, a professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, released a report titled “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans,” in which he suggests that … Read more

Exclusive | Students and teachers score NY’s school phone ban: ‘The best thing that’s happened’

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Exclusive | Students and teachers score NY’s school phone ban: ‘The best thing that’s happened’

There’s no signal. New York’s new statewide smartphone ban in schools just went into effect this academic year — city public schools returned Sept. 4 — and students, parents and teachers are already grading the controversial measure. And they’re giving it an A+. “The cellphone ban has transformed my class … I haven’t had kids this … Read more

How South Asian students are standing out to the Ivy League after affirmative action ban

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How South Asian students are standing out to the Ivy League after affirmative action ban

An unspoken set of rules have always governed the college admissions process for many Asian families. They understand, for example, that an Indian male applying to study computer science or a Chinese female pianist will have to work exponentially harder to distinguish themselves in the admissions process. For South Asian families in particular, the college … Read more

Exclusive | Gen Z students move emotional support pets into dorm rooms — to cope with the ‘trauma’ of college: ‘Really comforting’

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Exclusive | Gen Z students move emotional support pets into dorm rooms — to cope with the ‘trauma’ of college: ‘Really comforting’

In dorm rooms across America, college students used to go at it like rabbits. Now, they house the cutesy animals instead. As Gen Z forgoes sex, drugs, and alcohol, youngsters are instead spending their time on campus tending to emotional support pets. Students are housing dogs, cats, rabbits, and guinea pigs in their dorm rooms … Read more

The top college campuses to find celebrities — and their kids

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The top college campuses to find celebrities — and their kids

Congratulations, the high school class of 2025 (rah-rah-rah!) is ready to matriculate! Your freshly sprouted scholar spent the last four years growing their GPA, acing their APs and crushing their SATs in preparation for brain-bending curriculum. But are they ready for the most advantageous aspect of life at a top college: socializing with stardom?  It’s … Read more

Exclusive | NYC colleges push back on trash with swap shops — where students can furnish dorm rooms for free: ‘Making a difference’

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Exclusive | NYC colleges push back on trash with swap shops — where students can furnish dorm rooms for free: ‘Making a difference’

Shop ’til you swap. When Shannon Hughes saw the piles of discarded dorm-room furnishings that her fellow New School students ditched at the end of every school year, she always felt there had to be a better way to keep the scads of unwanted shower caddies, hangers, laundry baskets and lamps out of university dumpsters. … Read more