Education
Great minds lead to great solutions. Our education section features solutions and innovations directed at strengthening educational systems around the world.
Top colleges are teaching students to prioritize happiness-not money and power
It takes a lot of hard work to get into places like Yale and Stanford. But once students make it to the Ivy League, many find that while they’re ready to tackle Shakespeare and comparative political systems, they’re lost when it comes to building emotionally rich, and balanced lives. To that Read More...
A 1.5 percent tax on billionaires could educate all the world’s children
Just how rich are the very rich? UK-based charity Oxfam quantified the answer in an update today to its annual inequality report. Per the report, today’s global billionaires are seeing their wealth rise six times as fast as the incomes of ordinary workers, and are so wealthy, a 1.5% tax on their Read More...
Thousands of schools are teaching children how to spot fake news
Fake news has a powerful ability to mislead millions of people and has been seen as a direct threat to democracy. That’s why thousands of schools all over the world have adopted a curriculum to teach kids how to distinguish facts from fiction. The curriculum was developed by a U.S.-based Read More...
Having class outdoors improves children’s ability to focus
Teachers tend to avoid having outdoor lessons out of fear that it will get the children too riled up and unable to focus. As it turns out, quite the opposite is true. In a recent study, researchers found that teaching kids outside improves their ability to focus and engage with school work. In Read More...
Listening to this song for 15 seconds will instantly make you more creative
Innovation matters. Creativity matters. Finding new solutions to old problems is what businesses -- and careers -- are often built on. Sound therapy is a popular way to relax and reduce stress. But now you can use the power of music to be more Read More...
Free online courses that teach skills for Africa’s most in-demand industries
A number of universities across Africa are creating free online courses in the hope that they will democratize access to education, inspire more collaboration and networking between African institutions, and support access to education for Read More...
Are private schools immoral?
Public schools in gentrifying neighborhoods seem on the cusp of becoming truly diverse, as historically underserved neighborhoods fill up with younger, whiter families. But the schools remain stubbornly Read More...
This school in the middle of the jungle is any environmentalist’s dream
Some schools like to employ the word “green” in the context of their LEED-certified building or cafeteria recycling effort, but a school in Bali, Indonesia takes it to another level. Instead of SUVs, kids might show up in used-cooking-oil-fueled Bio Buses or eat lunch that was cooked with Read More...
WeWork’s grand plan to disrupt schools assumes kids want to be startup founders
WeWork, a co-working company valued at $20 billion, started by creating hip co-working spaces to allow entrepreneurs to flourish in a community setting. Now, it’s trying to transfer that philosophy to education, opening a “conscious, Read More...
Education for all: free courses offered by 200 universities around the world
Massive Open Online Courses, also known as MOOCs, are on the rise. In the past six years or so, close to 800 universities have created more than 8,000 MOOCs. In just the past three months, over 200 universities have announced 600 of such free online courses, teaching a wealth of different subjects Read More...