Written by Yesterday I watched as the world's top young high school scientists, researchers and innovators took home more than $3 million in awards. Each of these competing students are a force for profound good.
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crafty foreign service: Montessori education
Written by Montessori education . I don't talk about it much, but I am actually an expert in something. Montessori education . I probably don't talk about it because 2/3 of my children are going to schools that is the opposite of Montessori …
READ MORE »Stacey Tisdale: Education and Money: A Lesson from Our Mothers …
Written by Our mothers and grandmothers “got it.” They knew that the world is not designed for women, particularly their daughters, to create lives in which they could thrive. They knew that the key to standing up to these challenges was …
READ MORE »Will Levitt: Food 101: Why College Students Should Learn How to …
Written by Too many students leave college without any knowledge of how to cook for themselves. Learning how to microwave instant ramen is not a cooking skill. When we enter the real world, we need to be able to provide for …
READ MORE »The Next Digital Revolution in Education? Grading. – Joshua Gans …
Written by It seems that you can't go anywhere these days without seeing a new pretender to a digital revolution in education . Just this week, Harvard and MIT launched an online initiative, edX. It follows Stanford University's digital …
READ MORE »Chronicle of Higher Education Fires Blogger Over Black Studies …
Written by The Chronicle's editor posted a note to readers saying that Naomi Schaefer Riley's commentary “did not meet The Chronicle's basic editorial standards for reporting and fairness in opinion articles.”
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Written by General Colin Powell is arguably one of our nation's most respected public servants. He is a diplomat, a general, yet also a lifelong educator and proponent of schools and student successes through America's Promise …
READ MORE »Matthis Chiroux: Occupy-Style Repression Hits Brooklyn College …
Written by Let this also be a wake-up call to administrators around the country. Let this be a wake-up call to students around the country who value their education and freedom on their campuses to mobilize and lay claim to all which …
READ MORE »George Lucas: Education: The Single Most Important Job (Video)
Written by Education is the foundation of our democracy. By seizing on what's working, and recreating those successes from one classroom to the next, we can make it better for everyone.
READ MORE »Online Education: The Best-Case Scenario, Bryan Caplan …
Written by Do you think that online education is going to put traditional universities out of business? Great. Now tell me: Who moves first? It easy to say, “Forget brick-and-mortar college. I'm 'going' to Online U.” But what kind of students …
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