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3 weeks ago | npr.org | Emily Kwong |Avery Keatley |Rebecca Ramirez |Megan Lim

How is the tech industry thinking about AI's environmental impact? We investigate how the tech industry is thinking about its environmental footprint as it invests in energy-consuming new AI models.

1 month ago | npr.org | Avery Keatley |Noah Caldwell |Scott Detrow

Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet champions an all but forgotten composerPianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet has performed with the world's most renowned orchestras on grand stages. He talks with NPR's Scott Detrow about his set at the Tiny Desk.

1 month ago | wfdd.org | Jonaki Mehta |William Troop |Avery Keatley

reading Education testing Louisiana 0:00/7:28 There was an error loading the media player. This country has a big problem: its children are not good readers. Five years after the pandemic first closed the nation's schools, national test scores show students backsliding in reading all over the United States. There was one exception: Louisiana. In 2019, Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading. Now, they've risen to 16th.

1 month ago | wfdd.org | Mary Kelly |William Troop |Avery Keatley

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1 month ago | wfdd.org | Cory Turner |William Troop |Avery Keatley

President Donald Trump inherited a U.S. Department of Education with 4,133 employees, according to the administration's own numbers. Nearly 600 workers have since chosen to leave, by resigning or retiring. And this week, more than 1,300 workers were told they're losing their jobs in a Tuesday purge. That leaves 2,183 remaining department staff, according to the administration. Which means the Education Department will soon be roughly half the size it was just a few weeks ago.