"The departure of Donald Trump from the White House is cause for celebration. Our task now is to build a democratic socialist alternative to Joe Biden — and to oppose the Democratic establishment’s neoliberal agenda."

But the challenge with any assessment system will be catering for the larger learning loss suffered by some pupils. Without exams going ahead this summer, we face a huge decision: how to create a fair system for awarding grades that will _...Read More_

"People don't realize how much we need to see these kids," says one teacher, noting they're often the first to see signs of child abuse or food insecurity. The problem spans rural and urban areas."

>"Detection and provenance will be key in fighting disinformation and information warfare"

"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently had a plan to spend $250 million of its COVID-19 budget to give Santa Claus a first shot at getting a _...Read More_

"Increasingly, Democrats rely on highly educated voters to make up their base. That sits uncomfortably with the party’s historical role of uplifting all workers."

"Osteopathy was founded by a 19th-century healer who believed the body was a self-healing machine."

"Shamsea Alizada is a topper of Afghanistan's National University Exam. Her study center was bombed but she still top the exams. This incident shows us that the education is the only permanent way to counter the terrorism. We have to _...Read More_

“College campuses are now among the more economically and ethnically diverse domains of a society that is otherwise increasingly segregated by class and race. This is another far-reaching consequence of postsecondary expansion during the _...Read More_

"Some people are much more likely than others to become members of the reading class. “The patterns are very, very predictable,” Griswold told me. First, and most intuitively, the more education someone has, the more likely they are to be a _...Read More_

An incisive look at the broader contradictions and problems in university funding and (espoused) values. In short, the walk does not match the talk.

"Zhou Yi was terrible at math. He risked never getting into college. Then a company called Squirrel AI came to his middle school in Hangzhou, China, promising personalized tutoring. He had tried tutoring services before, but this one was _...Read More_

“With more than 360,000 Chinese students enrolled in U.S. institutions, Chinese visitors account for one-third of the foreign undergraduates and graduate students studying in the United States. To put that into scale: That number is about _...Read More_