UC Berkeley is establishing the Nancy Pelosi Institute to address democracy's challenges

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pointing to a busy retirement next year. She and the University of California, Berkeley, ...

California may soon test children on math as early as kindergarten in effort to curb dismal scores

A bill moving through the California Legislature would test students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an effort ...

California’s failed admissions experiment has run its course

The University of California system abandoned its standardized testing requirement. It’s facing an existential crisis in the ...

Nancy Pelosi’s next act: A democracy institute at UC Berkeley

The announcement comes as UC Berkeley, and the 10-campus university system, face immense pressure from the Trump ...

Nancy Pelosi to establish new democracy institute at UC Berkeley

Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California), who is retiring from Congress at the end of this session, plans to ...

For Nancy Pelosi, good-bye Congress. Hello, Pelosi Democracy Institute

The first female speaker of the House will be co-teaching a course on Congress at UC Berkeley's new institute, among other ...

A Berkeley AI professor makes a provocative argument for decelerating AI research

In her essay, Emma Pierson says she'd rather take her chances with cancer than race toward a future of AI overreliance.
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Berkeley Data Science Alums Build Gaze-to-Speech Communication Tool

Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) alums Katya Aukamp, Beta Desai, Nichol Flowers, and Clara Rhoades are the ...
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Guest editorial: Bring back the SAT for UC admission

For generations of California high school students, preparing for, taking and agonizingly waiting for the results of the SATs had been a rite of passage for college applicants. The Scholastic Aptitude ...
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UC Berkeley professor Zvezdelina Stankova explains push to reinstate standardized exams

The University of California stopped requiring the SAT for admissions in 2020, in the middle of the COVID pandemic when it was hard to even take the test. Now some professors are desperate to get it ...
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At the prestigious University of California, Berkeley, the increasing use of AI and a noticeable decline in mathematical ability have led to a surge in students failing.

The University of California, Berkeley, is renowned as one of America's top universities and is a leading research center in fields such as computer science and artificial intelligence. However, it ...