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Jason Prokowiew's father was 10 in 1941, when the Nazis that invaded Belarus murdered his mother. How to get food -- and how to survive without it -- became a through line in his survival story. Now, with famine imminent in Gaza, Prokowiew is reminded that living without food is not something humans ought to know.
Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.
Some teachers have found a way to combat classroom burnout: stand up comedy. In Oregon, the Teacher Show features professors, preschool teachers and everyone in between joking about their day jobs.
In its third year, NPR's College Podcast challenge received more than 500 entries from all around the U.S. We've listened to them all and narrowed it down to 10 finalists.
Why EducationSuperHighway is submitting challenges to help states prioritize MDU connectivity in BEAD and Digital Equity Act (DEA) planning.
Extensive ocher use reflects the culture and cognitive abilities of early humans, who inherited an affinity for red from primate ancestors.
As Israel began its genocide in Gaza, those who manage U.S. colleges and universities also commenced to issue statements of outrage at what Hamas had done. And as campus protests erupted in condemnation of the slaughter of Gazans, and especially children, and the destruction of homes and every major institution, including hospitals, these same institutions of higher learning began to disrupt these protests and bring them to an end. As a former college teacher, one who witnessed the attacks on those who protested against the War in Vietnam and who studied the repression on campuses during the McCarthy period, I became so appalled at what was being done to our brave and courageous college students that I began to write letters to the leaders of what are, in reality, academic enterprises.
The ACLU of Indiana sued Indiana University Friday, saying it violated First Amendment rights by banning certain protesters from campus.
Space launches have become so common in recent years that even crewed missions don't get a lot of coverage, unless it's some sort of 'first.' But with Monday's Starliner mission, there's good reason for a heightened level of interest.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Thursday a measure restricting curricula for educator preparation programs and courses, essentially removing theories regarding systemic racism, sexism, oppression and privilege. The governor described HB 1291 as an effort to stop indoctrination during the bill signing ceremony in Jacksonville. “So it’s not going to be DEI (diversity, equity and […]
A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient lake. The results were published today in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
"According to legend, John Henry, the African-American folk hero, took his nine-pound hammer and drilled through the day and into the night to prove that a man was better than a steam engine at drilling pilot holes in a mine.
About 3,500 Massachusetts borrowers who attended The Art Institutes are eligible for roughly $80 million in relief.
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For more than 50 years, administrators, school officials, policy makers and my fellow teachers have wrung their hands about grade inflation, writes Seth Czarnecki. It’s hard to see a realistic way out, but we must.
University faculty from UCLA to Columbia have put their bodies and livelihoods on the line amid a brutal, violent response to student protests for Gaza.
This year's winning entry is an emotional account of living with schizoaffective disorder, from a student at Miami Dade College.
Under mounting legal and political pressure, companies’ DEI tactics are evolving.
Constructionism is a process in which people create their own unique ways of knowing with prototypes, devices, and tools that others can use and critique. Last summer we ran an Art, AI & Robotics course at Lesley University. In class we explored ‘constructionist-inspired’, techno-vernacular creativity methods such as such as design (concept) mapping and modular prototyping can help students think creatively and solve problems. Modular prototyping includes separating and combining components. Students can use digital prototyping tools such as BBC micro:bits to add electronic components to their projects and create machines that act like R2D2, the astromech droid from the Star Wars film series.
“Biden Biden, Whattaya Say? How Many Kids You Kill Today?” This was one of the militant chants of hundreds of students on May 1 at UCLA. I went to the
The linkages between anti-war protesters and 317,000 students who waited a decade for restitution for their fraudulent college loans
We now know just how the earliest land plants, ancient algae, conquered terrestrial Earth hundreds of millions of years ago and laid the (literal) groundwork for all subsequent life. It highlights the fascinating genetic strategies of plant evolution.
As a kid, the only Asian American literature that crossed my path was stylized and historical, writes Kristin T. Lee. Now I’m thrilled to find so many books that go beyond the usual tropes.
“Can you teach people to be creative?” is the wrong question. “Can you teach people to use their imagination more productively?” That’s a better question. But, if your goal is educate imaginative people to generate ideas that lead to creativity, then it’s still not quite the best question. Why? Asking “can you teach” implies that the responsibility for instilling or inspiring imagination must come from the teacher. The question also supposes that somewhere there is a framework or set of rubrics that will deliver effective imagination into an empty mind. Consequently, we debate pedagogy and curriculum, frameworks and rubrics.
“Maryland takes a bold step forward in safeguarding the rights and dignity of LGBTQ+ youth and educators.”…
Local school leaders say some of the resources they have received from the state education department have been helpful, but want more guidance on navigating the conversation around gender identity in schools.
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