What students with disabilities lost to COVID
Even before the pandemic, the US was running a shortage of special educators in schools. Now, services for students with disabilities are even more limited.
Tag: education
The best ways to teach and talk about climate change with kids
Roughly half of all teens and young adults suffer from anxiety over climate change. But education on the crisis is lagging in the US. Here’s how teachers and families can help.
Your mile times from the Presidential Fitness Test may be part of national history
The Presidential Fitness Test started as a low key way of preparing teenagers for the US military. But it stuck around until 2013. Why?
Want ethical AI? Hand the keys to middle schoolers.
An innovative curriculum developed at MIT takes aim at eliminating the biases inherent in our algorithms—by teaching the concept to youngsters.
Many US students won’t find accurate climate science in their textbooks
The causes and impacts of climate change often are missing from common books used in high school and middle school classrooms.
6 geology games for kids who take rocks for granite
Rocks can seem boring, but there’s so much to learn about them. Use these educational games to make learning geology fun.
Kids are onto something: Homework might actually be bad
When you’re a kid, your stance on homework is generally pretty simple: It’s the worst. When it comes to educators, parents, and school administrators, however, the topic gets a lot more complicated. Collective educational enthusiasm toward homework has ebbed and flowed throughout the 20th century in the US. School districts began abolishing homework in the […]
Will microschools dominate post-pandemic education?
Barnett Berry is a professor of education at the University of South Carolina. This story was originally featured on The Conversation. 1. What are microschools? As their name suggests, microschools, which serve K-12 students, are very small schools that typically serve 10 to 15 students, but sometimes as many as 150. They can have very different […]
4 library hacks every college student should take advantage of
Libraries offer so much more than books and study spaces for college students. Here are four smart ways to use them.
Why birth rates are falling, and why it’s no big deal
Birth rates are falling worldwide, which is widely talked about as a bad thing. But decreases in fertility rates are actually good in some ways.