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Mapped: Personal Finance Requirements, by State

Personal Finance Requirements, by State

What happens when 600 kindergartners are given $50 to save for college?

In 2011, low-income students in San Francisco were given $50 to put in a bank account through a personal finance program that covered financial topics and encouraged families to save for college. By 2023, the average balance was $1,422, or 28 times the starting balance.

Where Do International Students in the U.S. Come From?

Where Do International Students in the U.S. Come From?

The proportion of international students in U.S. higher education institutions has increased steadily, from 1.5% of the country’s total students in the 1960s to 5.5% in the early 2020s.

Using 2022 data from the International Education Exchange (IIE), this visualization from Ehsan Soltani breaks down where these students come from.

The International Student Population

“Good Morning Students” … “Good Morning AI Overlord”

In recent years, schools across America, with the help of private companies, have been significantly ramping up surveillance on students, largely in the name of keeping the children safe. Now that there is big buzz about artificial intelligence, or “AI,” it should come as little surprise that peeping adults will increasingly employ AI to aid them in the surveilling of school students. Last week, the Dallas Independent School District was boasting about its new pilot project, undertaken along with the company Davista.

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