Education
Great minds lead to great solutions. Our education section features solutions and innovations directed at strengthening educational systems around the world.
How Aristotle is the perfect happiness guru
Happiness is not a state as far as Aristotle is concerned, it’s an activity, says Professor Edith Hall, and you just have to decide to become Read More...
Could this web browser extension be an antidote to fake news?
A couple of fact-check organizations have teamed up to create a Google Chrome extension that aims to tackle “fake news” online. The Trusted News extension, which just became available this week, labels news sites with color-coded symbols to warn users about the trustworthiness of the Read More...
Study: Students would rather be employed by NASA and the UN than big companies
According to a survey of over 62,000 students in the US, the most attractive employers for university students are organizations that don’t care about profit at all. Surprisingly enough, US Students across a wide swath of academic disciplines ranked governmental organizations like NASA and the UN Read More...
Want to remember the notes you take? Here's why you need to write them by hand
It's the worst feeling. We get a call or an email suddenly reminding us that a project is due or an important meeting has passed by and we've totally forgotten it. I'm no stranger to the pitfalls of forgetfulness. It's easy for things to slip our minds, especially when we're working on a Read More...
China values teachers. Here’s why we must too
Teachers’ impact on their students’ lives cannot possibly be overstated. But while the teacher-student relationship is crucial to education, the world faces a shortage of teachers. Teachers’ status, pay, and well-being have all dropped, and a record number of them are leaving the classroom Read More...
Thousands of children in Malawi are learning how to grow food at school
The Malawi Schools Permaculture Clubs, a recipient of the 2018 Lush Spring Prize, provides basic gardening kits and lesson packs to teachers in order to teach valuable agricultural Read More...
Striking teachers are fighting for the future of public schools
Even as they face threats–a looming lawsuit in Arizona; jail time in Colorado–public school teachers continue to strike. The two western states are just the latest to join a movement that began in West Virginia to call for higher pay and better benefits for public employees. The Read More...
This liberal arts school prepares students for the jobs of tomorrow
Colleges have always been about getting students prepared for a career, but all too often, the education given at liberal-arts schools isn’t so useful for getting and maintaining a career. A small college in Maine is trying to change that by embedding the idea of “purposeful work”—broadly Read More...
West Virginia showed how necessary—and difficult—striking is
After nine days of arriving at 7 a.m. to the picket lines, Emily Comer, a Spanish teacher at South Charleston High School, was “mentally and emotionally and physically exhausted.” Word came on a Tuesday morning that a deal between the state and the striking public employees was imminent. Read More...
Can this four-minute brain hack turn you into an optimist?
Everyone has that friend who’s so cheerful it’s almost annoying. But while some people just happen to be more positive than others, optimism isn’t strictly a personality trait–it’s a learnable Read More...