education
A thesaurus isn’t to find big and fancy words, but a resource to help you find your rhythm.
This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
Kids are fragile. They should trust their feelings. The world is a battle between good and evil. We should stop repeating these untruths.
Imagine going on a tour through the human circulatory system as a tiny cell. That is just one example of education in the metaverse.
The right questions are those sparked from the joy of discovery.
Computerized, job-focused learning undercuts the true value of higher education. Liberal arts should be our model for the future.
For college students, it's the early afternoon.
The insanity of the academic job market laid out in numbers.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
Population growth is driven by three changes: Fertility, mortality, and migration.
Negative feedback ignites the primal (“fight or flight”) and emotional (“do they hate me?”) parts of our brain first.
Books that were rarely taught in 1963, when baby boomers were students, became classics when those same boomers were teachers and parents.
Summit Public Schools take a radically different approach to education. And it's working.
Mixed messages and competing interests have left college students feeling lost and stressed.
An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.
Symbolic gestures often speak to our psyche in ways no rational action could ever speak to our intellect.
There is no long-term beneficial effect of medication on standardized test scores.
In the age of distraction, don't we all want to read faster and more efficiently?
Polarization or misunderstanding?
Easily distracted? Try a "distractibility delay."
Screens were around in previous generations, but now they truly define childhood.
"A cheap loan is beyond all new destiny." Does that mean anything to you?
Former Harvard professor and best-selling author Todd Rose explains the problem with prestigious colleges and how the future of higher ed could be bright.
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Learning another language might make you richer, sexier, and smarter. Why not try it?
Is college worth it? This question may seem a no-brainer, but there are many reasons why it is worthy of serious deliberation. Here are three.
A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
Volunteering at a food bank, doing a coding workshop, or taking an online course might earn you micro-credentials.
Majoring in economics can boost a graduate's early-career income by several thousand dollars, at least for those who live in California.