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Universities and policymakers have accelerated alternatives to traditional four‑year degrees: three‑year, 90‑credit bachelor’s tracks, expanded apprenticeships and technical routes are gaining traction as families and adult learners face cost and labour‑market pressure. Critics warn shortened degrees and cuts to specialist support for disabled students will narrow learning and harm future prospects.
New York City has imposed a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for pre-K through eighth grade, affecting about 600,000 pupils. The city has set screen-time caps, banned companion chatbots across grades, and created twice-yearly AI literacy classes and limited supervised pilots for high schoolers while it reviews ed‑tech contracts and tools.