Tag: Education
Monuments ‘expire’ – but offensive monuments can become powerful history lessons
Alan Marcus, University of Connecticut and Walter Woodward, University of Connecticut
Historical monuments are intended to be timeless, but almost all have an expiration date....
Kids are bigger coronavirus spreaders than many doctors realized – here’s...
Phyllis Sharps, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and Lucine Francis, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
The first U.S. schools have reopened with in-person...
Black men face high discrimination and depression, even as their education...
Shervin Assari, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science and T.J. Curry, University of Edinburgh
Are you a highly educated and relatively wealthy Black...
For parents of color, schooling at home can be an act...
Monisha Bajaj, University of San Francisco
My 6-year-old hates the British. To be more specific, the British Empire that ruled over up to a quarter...
6 tips for parents who home-school
Erin Baker, Wayne State University
With most U.S. schools closed for the rest of the school year due to the COVID-19 outbreak – and uncertainty...
Librarians could be jailed and fined under a proposed censorship law
Nicole Cooke, University of South Carolina
A bill pending in Missouri’s legislature takes aim at libraries and librarians who are making “age-inappropriate sexual material” available...
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...
The ‘slow professor’ could bring back creativity to our universities
Julien Lefort-Favreau, Queen's University, Ontario
Last summer, a friend gave me a copy of The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
