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New Study Highlights Pandemic’s Mental Health Toll on Educators

New Study Highlights Pandemic’s Mental Health Toll on Educators

Educational Researcher With increasing distance from the first years of the pandemic, researchers are getting a sharper picture of its many effects on school systems across the...

Is learner-centered education better? New study shows that there is currently little evidence.

Is learner-centered education better? New study shows that there is currently little evidence.

This is a study that will stir some discussion, I think, as it states that there is currently relatively little objective evidence that the much-promoted ‘learner-centered’...

Raising regard for the academic enterprise

Raising regard for the academic enterprise

Higher education has not been immune to these corrosive forces. In 2019, Pew reported that the share of individuals who viewed universities positively fell by 11 points (from 61...

The world wakes up to the role of education in climate solutions

The world wakes up to the role of education in climate solutions

Earlier this year I visited an empty school in an affluent part of New Jersey. During Hurricane Ida in the summer of 2021, floodwaters had poured into vents set inches above...

Call for the

Call for the "largest labor action in higher education history"

Turtles and Teamsters was one rallying cry during the 1999 protests against the WTO in Seattle, WA. In other words, a coalition between environmental activists and labor...

Could coronavirus change science education?

Could coronavirus change science education?

What an eye-opener the coronavirus pandemic is proving for science. A distinct eagerness to know, to learn, has flared up among the public, exposing an underlying urge to get...

School 'refusers' thriving in remote learning environment

School 'refusers' thriving in remote learning environment

Poppy is in year 10 at Scoresby Secondary College in Melbourne’s east, but is studying two year 11 subjects, meaning she will attend school for those subjects from May 26, and...

Data: 5 Big Challenges in Preparing K-12 Students for the World of Work

Data: 5 Big Challenges in Preparing K-12 Students for the World of Work

Once a month, students at Coxsackie-Athens High School near Albany, N.Y., can have a pizza lunch with local employers, including a national pharmaceutical company and an HVAC...

A special education teacher explains why virtual learning is so hard on her students

A special education teacher explains why virtual learning is so hard on her students

It isn’t easy setting up a virtual classroom on the fly. As the coronavirus pandemic grinds the nation’s education system to a halt, teachers have navigated computer shortages,...

Is this the crisis higher education needs to have?

Is this the crisis higher education needs to have?

On 29 November 1990, the then Australian treasurer (and future prime minister) Paul Keating, facing a financial crisis that would severely damage major sections of the...

6 Feelings to be on the Lookout for When Re-Socializing Your Students

6 Feelings to be on the Lookout for When Re-Socializing Your Students

          As educators are wondering what the 2020-2021 school year might entail, our students will, inevitably, be going back to their schools and experiencing some rapid,...

The Vital Role of Digital Leadership in Transforming Education

The Vital Role of Digital Leadership in Transforming Education

Reflections on teaching, learning, and leadership. Sunday, May 10, 2020 The Vital Role of Digital Leadership in Transforming Education Education will not be the same.  Now...