Business Insider reports employers are begging colleges to teach Zoomers basic verbal communication and email etiquette. The piece frames it as a gap between academic prep and workplace reality, not just a generational complaint.
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Employers want colleges to teach talking
The soft skills gap is the story today, not AI bans. Employers are fed up with Gen Z graduates who can't hold a conversation, and a thoughtful piece on deep learning offers one possible fix. Meanwhile, the Trump administration keeps pulling levers on education data and funding.
The soft skills gap
Two pieces today frame the same problem from opposite ends: employers and a classroom teacher.

A teacher in The Hindu reflects on a year-long Japan project and argues that deep, sustained study builds knowledge that sticks. It's a practical counterpoint to the soft skills panic above.
Policy and data fights
The administration kept busy on two fronts that reshape what schools report and who gets funded.
The Trump administration scrubbed data on gender-based bullying and nonbinary students from the Education Department's civil rights survey for 2023-2024. AP caught the removal; it effectively erases those categories from federal reporting.
A proposed Treasury regulation would strip tax-exempt status from private colleges with race-based DEI policies, effective after May 2027. It's a direct escalation beyond executive orders into the tax code.
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WASSCE 2026: English Language performance falls to 62.4% – WAECwww.myjoyonline.com
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New Mexico State names interim dean for College of ACESwww.ktsm.com
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