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We've listened to nearly 1,500 podcasts from all around the U.S. and narrowed them down to 10 middle school and 10 high school finalists.

Here are the honorable mentions from this year's Student Podcast Challenge, chosen from nearly 1,500 entries.

The lawsuit by a former Cornell University student, alleging she was raped in 2024 by seven male students, has renewed long-standing concerns about how colleges deal with sexual assault.

Leaders in business and government in Vermont want to reinvent college for the modern era, even as Americans grow skeptical of higher education, and some colleges are closing.

A three-person panel has until Oct. 5 to make a recommendation for McMaster's decision. He will then either remove Dunmeyer-Roberson from the school district board or allow her to continue serving.

Sophia Dasser, editor-in-chief at The Cornell Daily Sun, talks with NPR's Juana Summers about an alleged 2024 gang rape at Cornell and the campus fallout.

Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.

AI is changing the way students learn, but perhaps the most important question isn't whether students use AI. It's how they use it.

Education staff are being scattered across several other federal agencies. Despite the Trump administration's claims, employees say it's adding bureaucracy and making it harder to serve students.