Tag: Education
What Amazon’s decision to retrain a third of its employees means...
Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Amazon’s announcement that it will invest US$700 million to retrain 100,000 employees – a third of its U.S....
Gates launches lobbying arm – higher education on agenda
Nicholas Tampio, Fordham University
Bill and Melinda Gates have launched a lobbying group in part to drive their agenda on education.
The move comes as Congress...
Are yoga and mindfulness in schools religious?
Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University
The number of U.S. children age 4 to 17 practicing yoga rose from 2.3% to 8.4% – or from 1.3...
What other countries can teach the US about raising teacher pay
David Evans, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Teacher strikes swept the United States in 2018, from West Virginia to Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona, North Carolina and beyond....
Why LeBron James’ I Promise School should be more like LeBron...
Nolan Krueger, University of Texas at Austin; Kevin O'Neal Cokley, University of Texas at Austin, and Marlon L. Bailey, University of Texas at Austin
When...
Striking teachers in Denver shut down performance bonuses – here’s how...
Nathan Favero, American University School of Public Affairs
Editor’s note: Denver teachers reached a tentative deal on Feb. 14 that ended a three-day strike.
Besides raises...
3 ways to improve education about slavery in the US
Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, West Virginia University
When it comes to teaching students about slavery in the United States, teachers often stumble through the topic. In...
Gen Z entrepreneurs view higher education as vital to their startups
Eric J. Barron, Pennsylvania State University
Today’s college students – dubbed Generation Z – are beginning to make their mark on the workplace with a...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
