Tag: Educators
Are high school sports living up to their ideals?
Jedediah Blanton, University of Tennessee and Scott Pierce, Illinois State University
Coach Smith was an easy hire as the...
National parks teach students about environmental issues in this course
Seth T. Kannarr, University of Tennessee
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation...
Rhyme and reason – why a university professor uses poetry to...
Ricardo Martinez, Penn State
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting...
Teacher pensions are becoming a bigger share of educational costs
Michael Addonizio, Wayne State University
The 2022 stock market plunge has taken a toll on some of the nation’s...
Violence and other forms of abuse against teachers: 5 questions answered
Eric M. Anderman, The Ohio State University; Dorothy Espelage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Linda A. Reddy, Rutgers University; Ron Avi Astor,...
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...
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....
Teaching hope during the 2020 campaign season
Sarah Stitzlein, University of Cincinnati
The 2020 presidential election campaign has already started.
Election campaigns inspire hope, but they can also quickly lead to political...
EXPLORING NATURE
Earth-size stars and alien oceans – an astronomer explains the case...
Juliette Becker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Sun will someday die. This will happen when it runs out of hydrogen...
