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Making Children's Media about STEM More Inclusive
A Drexel University professor has been researching how to make children’s media more inclusive. And lately he’s been putting his ideas into practice …
2 years, 10 months ago
Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?
“Why do some schools get better quickly, and others get stuck?” That question drove MIT professor of digital media Justin Reich to write a new book a…
2 years, 11 months ago
Should Schools Adopt ‘Cellphone Jails’?
When their school implemented a new policy requiring students to lock their phones in pouches during the school day, the students had some concerns. …
2 years, 11 months ago
Has It Become Harder to Connect With College Students?
Since the pandemic, more professors are reporting they’re having trouble connecting with their students. That’s according to Bonni Stachowiak, dean o…
2 years, 11 months ago
Why Schools Should Teach Philosophy, Even to Little Kids
It’s important to nurture philosophical thinking in kids throughout school and college. So argues a philosophy professor who wrote a book that highli…
2 years, 11 months ago
How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement (Encore Episode)
Professors are finding that they can’t just go back to teaching as they did before the pandemic and expect the same result. It takes more these days …
3 years ago
Will AI Chatbots Boost Efforts to Make Scholarly Articles Free?
For decades, proponents of open access scholarship have worked to make the research in scholarly journals freely readable to all. Will this moment of…
3 years ago
How a Viral Video Sparked an Ongoing Discussion of Police in Schools
In 2015, a video went viral showing a white school resource officer violently flipping over a Black student in her desk and dragging her across the r…
3 years ago
Is It Time to Rethink the Traditional Grading System?
A growing number of educators are wondering whether the grading system is hindering students rather than helping them learn. A new book explores alte…
3 years ago
The Strange Past and Messy Future of 'Gifted and Talented.' (Encore Episode)
Sometime early in elementary school, kids are put on one of two paths: regular or gifted. Where did this idea come from? The answer goes back more th…
3 years, 1 month ago