The FBI arrested a professor at one of America’s top universities for hiding China links over his work for the Chinese communist government. Gang Chen, 56, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was arrested by federal agents and charged with grant fraud on January 14, according to a U.S. Department of Justice ...
AMB is a music academy in California that is pretty unique when compared to other music schools — it is the only academy of music in the U.S. that is completely dedicated to teaching music to blind students. David Pinto, the founder of AMB, has even developed special software to help the students learn music ...
It’s almost “back to school” time again. Yet, here we are in the year 2020, getting used to virtual classrooms. This is an opportune time to be creative and reevaluate our approach to schooling and consider alternative avenues of education for children. Homeschooling is one such approach. It is gaining in popularity and it holds ...
In the Walthamstow district of London, residents recently started noticing that someone was writing down the name of the species of trees on the pavement using chalk. After people got curious and started talking on Twitter, the person behind this was soon identified — Rachel Summers, who runs a local forest school called Curious Wilds. ...
When children read books daily outside school, it directly influences their academic performance, according to a major new study by the University of Malaga and UCL, which was published in the peer-reviewed journal Oxford Review of Education. Using longitudinal census data to look at more than 43,000 students aged 10 to 11 and then again ...
Before 1949, Chinese society, especially university education in China under the Republic of China, enjoyed intellectual freedom under the stewardship of Sun Yat-sen, the Beiyang government, and Chiang Kai-shek. There were three noteworthy types of Chinese universities in the Republic of China. The first type was government-sponsored universities, such as Peking University and Central University. ...
Teacher counseling services for teaching staff not only help improve their mental health and wellbeing, but also provide long-term benefits for their students — and attractive cost-effective outcomes for South Australia’s Department for Education. Counseling services for staff returns over three dollars of benefits Research into the Department’s existing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) has found ...
Peter Tabichi is a teacher from Kenya who recently won a US$1 million Global Teacher Prize given by the Varkey Foundation. What makes him special is that Tabichi gives away almost 80 percent of his monthly salary to help poor kids. He was selected from almost 10,000 nominations and received the prize for being the ...
There are some who might say that the old times were better. While that can be seen as an idealistic viewpoint, it cannot be accepted as truth. Anyone who objectively looks at history will understand that the modern era is the best time to be alive, offering better opportunities than in the past. Elon Musk ...
I went out with my German friend and learned first-hand where Germany’s strength comes from. As we were passing a small river in the suburbs, we saw a child fishing with two fishing rods next to him. My German friend walked over unhappily and asked: “How come you have two fishing rods?” Here, a person ...
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