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Reading to Improve Language Skills? Focus on Fiction Rather Than Non-Fiction
The Conversation · 4 minVerbal abilities provide benefits in school and in one’s career. Fostering a love for stories and fiction in children should be a high priority.
What Happens When American Children Learn About Racism?
FiveThirtyEight · 6 minAmericans have spent over 150 years arguing about what kind of history we should teach to our children.
The Monkeys and Parrots Caught Up in the California Gold Rush
Smithsonian Magazine · 8 minResearchers combed through 19th-century records and found evidence of the species, which joined a menagerie that included Galapagos tortoises and kangaroos.
Simone de Beauvoir on facing old age and avoiding bad faith
Aeon · 14 minHere’s a puzzle: why do we neglect and disdain the one vulnerable group we all eventually will join? Beauvoir had an answer.
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Dartmouth College is eliminating loans from its financial aid packages
NPR · 2 minDartmouth College, an Ivy League university in New Hampshire, said Monday it will no longer offer loans in its financial aid packages for undergrad students, and instead, replace them with more grants.
How to Solve the Student-Disengagement Crisis
The Chronicle of Higher Education · 11 min“Defeated,” “exhausted,” “overwhelmed” — these were typical responses when The Chronicle asked faculty members how their students were faring. Professors reported widespread anxiety, depression, and a lack of motivation in their classrooms.
How should children learn to read? In Canada, two schools of thought struggle for supremacy
The Globe and Mail · 9 minFour weeks into the current school year, kindergarten teacher Kristen Wilson assembles her army of Code Masters, a notoriously fidgety group of four- and five-year-olds whose attention she can hold for at most 15 minutes before they wander off to play.
The College Student Whose Exes Are Hooking Up With Each Other
The Cut · 7 minNew York’s Sex Diaries series asks anonymous city dwellers to record a week in their sex lives — with comic, tragic, often sexy, and always revealing results. This week, a student manages complicated feelings about transition, their exes, and a new hookup: 22, single, Chicago.
High School Science Teacher Explains Bernoulli’s Principle in Viral TikTok Video
mymodernmet.com · 2 minTeachers are some of the most valuable human beings on the planet, and some of them go above and beyond to engage with their students and ensure that they learn. One high school science teacher has done such a good job of this that his students even requested that he start making content on TikTok.
I’m a College Student With a Disability. Stop Treating Me Like a Child.
The New York Times · 2 minThe Habibs are a father-son filmmaking team. Samuel Habib, 21, wants to date, leave home, go away to college. But for Samuel and millions of other young adults with disabilities, the path beyond public school and into adulthood is difficult to navigate.
A teacher in Uvalde, Texas, describes ‘the longest 35 minutes of my life’
NBC News · 3 minUVALDE, Texas — The teacher came to her door Wednesday evening, eyes puffy from hours of crying and almost no sleep. “What do you want me to say?” she asked a reporter. “That I can’t eat? That all I hear are their voices screaming? And I can’t help them?”
DeafBlind Communities May Be Creating a New Language of Touch
The New Yorker · 32 minProtactile began as a movement for autonomy and a system of tactile communication. Now, some linguists argue, it is becoming a language of its own.
Has the ‘great resignation’ hit academia?
Nature Publishing Group · 12 minA wave of departures, many of them by mid-career scientists, calls attention to widespread discontent in universities
They Got the Debt, but Not the Degree
The New York Times · 6 minMillions took out student loans for programs they did not complete. For some, debt cancellation would be life-changing. For others, it would hardly make a dent. Michael Chaney just couldn’t pass algebra.
560,000 Borrowers Will Get Automatic Student Loan Forgiveness, But Others Can Still Apply For Relief
Forbes · 4 minLast week, the Biden administration announced a sweeping initiative to enact billions of dollars in automatic student loan cancellation for over half a million borrowers. The Education Department characterized the student loan forgiveness initiative as one of its largest in history.
I'm A Teacher Who Took Part In A School Shooting Simulation. I Wasn't Prepared For The Horror.
huffpost.com · 9 minI began teaching in 2000. As the rise of school violence mirrored my teaching trajectory, I began receiving more and more training on how to keep my students safe. I was told to lock the doors. Move students away from windows. Be silent. Check your email.
LaGuardia High School in NYC in uproar over ‘equitable’ academics
New York Post · 3 minAt this rate it’ll become infamous.
Some M.B.A.s Are Getting Job Offers Before They Step Onto Campus
The Wall Street Journal · 1 minEarly recruiting—before students and prospective employers see how they take to business school—reflects the fierce competition for fresh talent in consultingThe Class of 2022 represents the most in-demand college graduates to enter the job market in years.
N.Y.C. Tried to Fix High School Admissions. Some Parents Are Furious.
The New York Times · 6 minIn an attempt to democratize schools, the city is focusing less on grades, attendance and test scores. Instead, it relies heavily on a lottery. Ginia Bellafante writes the Big City column, a weekly commentary on the politics, culture and life of New York City.
How gender-neutral language has evolved around the world
blog.duolingo.com · 9 minWelcome to another week of Dear Duolingo, an advice column just for language learners. Catch up on past installments here. Hi, learners! 👋 Can you believe it’s almost June?! In the U.S., June marks Pride Month, which celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community.
Why is it so much easier to become a cop in Canada than an electrician, plumber or welder?
The Globe and Mail · 3 minAt the Mass Casualty Commission in Nova Scotia last week – a wide-ranging review of the killing of 22 people in the province two years ago – the question of police training arose during a roundtable discussion.
Professors Need the Power to Fire Diversity Bureaucrats
The Atlantic · 11 minSign up for Conor’s newsletter, Up for Debate, where he highlights timely conversations and solicits reader responses to thought-provoking questions.
New data shows shift at Lowell High School: more students given failing grades after admissions change
San Francisco Chronicle · 8 minThis is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate However, it’s unclear exactly how much the change in admissions policy factored into the rise in Ds and Fs among Lowell’s ninth graders, compared to other possible factors such as the pandemic.
Accused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met
The New York Times · 9 minAn unsettling glimpse at the digitization of education.