Meet the 102-year-old teaching seniors how to use smartphones and Windows

Simes presides over Computer Pals, a volunteer-run group devoted to helping older adults develop digital literacy. Under his guidance, the club's lessons range from navigating Windows 11 ...
The Straits Times

‘She’s my best friend’: S’pore employer supported domestic worker’s English lessons, diploma studies

Madam Jamie Too won Employer of the Year, nominated by her domestic worker Ms Ika, who was encouraged by Madam Too to pursue a three-year diploma. Ms Lasmitri won Migrant Domestic Worker of the Year ...
WBEZ

CPS mother outraged by history lesson her child says included reenactment of slavery

A Chicago mother says she was blindsided last week when her 9-year-old son came home from school distressed, saying he’d been made to participate in a reenactment of slavery as part of a Black History ...
The Aspen Times

Conservation studies’ findings on Colorado’s Western Slope have lessons for water managers

The findings of recent water-conservation studies on the Western Slope could have implications for lawmakers and water managers as they plan for a future with less water. Researchers from Colorado ...
Aspen Journalism

Conservation studies’ findings have lessons for water managers

As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! The findings of recent water-conservation studies on the Western Slope could have implications for lawmakers and water ...
The Harvard Crimson

A Lesson in Teaching Feminism from MIT

Amelia F. Barnum ’28, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House. Isabel C. Hogben ’29, a Crimson Editorial comper, lives in Greenough Hall. When it comes to Women ...
University of California

Eleven-year-old studies computer science at UC Riverside

When Alisa Perales was a year old she began learning her ABC’s and 123’s. By the time she was 4, she could name the capitals of the world and the bones in a human body. Now at 11 years old, she’s ...
The New York Times

How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught

History lessons are being wiped from the internet, and California is retreating from ethnic studies, as education swings away from curriculums that are seen as too progressive. By Dana Goldstein In ...
Fox News

Bombshell report exposes 'deeply concerning' Midwest university initiative pushing far-left K-12 lesson plans

EXCLUSIVE: A new report from a leading advocacy group alleges that a race and gender center at the University of Minnesota is supplying K-12 teachers with ethnic studies lessons that promote a variety ...
The Texas Tribune

State Board of Education OKs Texas-heavy social studies plan, setting stage for clash over history lessons

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Click2Houston

State Board of Education OKs Texas-heavy social studies plan, setting stage for clash over history lessons

The State Board of Education voted Friday to approve a social studies plan that would teach more Texas history across school grades and deemphasize other subjects like world history, cultures and ...
NPR

Surprising lessons from studies about post-Katrina trauma

Hurricane Katrina caused widespread trauma and dislocation. Researchers who followed survivors to track the mental health impacts of the storm found that while the trauma of Katrina caused elevated ...