Tag: Educators
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...
The best way to boost the economy is to improve the...
Richard Holden, UNSW
What if we had an opportunity to double the size of the tourism industry, or to quadruple the size of the beef...
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...
