Author: Rachel Treisman

E.W. Scripps Company president and CEO Adam Symson holds the trophy over Shrey Parikh, winner of the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee, at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. Allison Robbert/AP hide caption toggle caption Allison Robbert/AP WASHINGTON, D.C. — After three days of competition, 18 total rounds and one nail-biting, rapid-fire “spell-off,” the Scripps National Spelling Bee has crowned its champion: 14-year-old Shrey Parikh from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Over the course of two hours on Thursday night, the pool of nine finalists dropped to two: Parikh and 12-year-old Ishaan Gupta from Jersey City, N.J. After each nailed…

An image of a notice sent by Georgia Tech’s information technology department warning users about the Canvas breach on Friday. Michael Warren/AP hide caption toggle caption Michael Warren/AP The online education platform Canvas went offline after a data breach on Thursday, temporarily leaving students and faculty at thousands of U.S. colleges — and K-12 schools — without access to course materials and communications during finals period. “I’m sure somewhere in the country when the outage happened, there probably were people actually taking final exams on the platform when it crashed,” says Damon Linker, a senior lecturer in political science at…

President Trump displays a signed executive order during Thursday’s signing ceremony in the White House, surrounded by administration and professional athletes including golfer Bryson DeChambeau and WWE Chief Creative Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images For generations of U.S. schoolchildren, phrases like “shuttle run” and “sit-and-reach” likely conjure vivid memories of what was once a staple of American physical education: the Presidential Fitness Test. And thanks to a new executive order, it’s slated to return to gymnasiums nationwide. On Thursday, President Trump signed the order reviving the test, a set of…

The State Department, which administers the Fulbright Program. Eleven members of the 12-person Fulbright board have resigned over alleged Trump administration interference. Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images All but one member of the 12-person board that oversees the prestigious Fulbright Program has resigned, citing political interference by the Trump administration. Congress created the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board through the 1961 Fulbright–Hays Act of 1961 to supervise the U.S. government’s flagship program of international educational and cultural exchange. The program awards some 8,000 merit-based grants each year, enabling Fulbright scholars across fields to study, teach and…