Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Education
08/28/2022
When Gown Embraces Town
It’s time to judge colleges by their contribution to the economic and civic life of their communities. Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, passes the test brilliantly.
09/01/2022
Opinion: School Is for Making Citizens
Why do we have public schools? To make young people into educated, productive adults, of course. But public schools are also for making Americans.
08/25/2022
White House Pushes Journals to Drop Paywalls on Publicly Funded Research
The policy, hailed by researchers as “transformational,” will be fully in place by 2026 and make publicly financed research available immediately at no cost.
08/16/2022
Scott Galloway: The Howard Stern of the Business World (or much more)?
Today's guest, Scott Galloway is arguably the most prolific thought leader in the business world today, with millions of views on his viral YouTube and videos on his various social media channels filled with business advice and predictions.
06/27/2022
Academic Freedom’s Proxy Wars
This month the legal scholar Ilya Shapiro, hired to run the Center on the Constitution at Georgetown’s law school, announced in an op-ed that he was declining that post for fear of being set up for a “slow-motion firing.”
03/07/2022
New Mexico’s governor just signed a bill to make college tuition-free
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed on Friday Senate Bill 140, otherwise known as the New Mexico Opportunity Scholarship Act.
03/12/2020
Explaining the News to Our Kids
Dramatic, disturbing news events can leave parents speechless. These age-based tips on how to talk to kids about the news -- and listen, too -- can help.
02/15/2022
Opinion: The “misinformation problem” seems like misinformation
If anything people have become better informed.
02/15/2022
Tanzania ends ban of pregnant girls in schools
In doing so, it becomes the penultimate African nation to allow girls, often coerced into pregnancy, to continue their education.
02/07/2022
New program is sending free copies of challenged books to Missourians
Program organizers say the books most frequently challenged by school districts are works of historically excluded identity groups.
02/08/2022
Puerto Rico teachers will get $1K a month salary boost
The move comes just days after 70% of public school teachers left their classrooms and joined a protest for better conditions. Salaries had not increased in 13 years.
02/08/2022