Using Machine Learning to Understand College Closures
Higher Education Using Machine Learning to Understand College Closures Researchers worked with the Federal Reserve to create a predictive model that assesses hundreds of institutional characteristics to estimate the likelihood that a college might close. January 08, 2026 • Abby Sourwine Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Print Email Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., closed abruptly in 2024, after 156 years in operation.
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How AI Grades Handwritten Math (And Where It Still Struggles)
AI grades handwritten math by reading the page with specialized handwriting recognition, then evaluating each step of a solution rather than just the final answer. Here is how that pipeline works and where it still breaks down.
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AI grading analytics turn a pile of scores into concept-level diagnoses, showing exactly where a class or student is stuck. Here is how educators can read that data and act on it.
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