No.01
From skills to degrees: New ACE data shows how job-relevant learning can help reduce the cost of college
Since launching our first Professional Certificates, one of Coursera’s goals has been to make high-quality education more accessible by helping learners build job-ready skills while creating flexible ...
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No.02
Quit saying “I’m not a math person”
It’s quite rare to hear someone say, “I can’t read” or “I’m illiterate so I don’t read.” On the other hand, lots of people claim that they’re “not a math person.” The phrase isn’t just “I don’t like m...
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No.03
Watch Footage from the Psychology Experiment That Shocked the World: Milgram’s Obedience Study (1961)
For decades following World War II, the world was left wondering how the atrocities of the Holocaust could have been perpetrated in the midst of—and, most horrifically, by—a modern and civilized soci...
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No.04
The Radical Ideas of Plato’s Republic: An In-Depth Introduction
We no longer live in a time when college freshmen get shocked by much of the reading material assigned to them. Counterintuitively, the texts that do retain their power to disturb young minds (presumi...
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No.05
5 questions to help every district leader make better decisions
As budgets remain tight and expectations for measurable student growth increase, every instructional decision carries greater weight. Choosing one initiative often means delaying another, making it ev...
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No.06
Why Incompetent People Think They’re Amazing: An Animated Lesson from David Dunning (of the Famous “Dunning-Kruger Effect”)
The business world has long had special jargon for the Kafkaesque incompetence bedeviling the ranks of upper management. There is “the Peter principle,” first described in a satirical book of the same...
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No.07
Practical Strategies for Effective Differentiation in Education
Transform your approach to differentiation with a three-step framework that makes it accessible and manageable for educators.
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No.08
Why K-12 cybersecurity education needs practice, not just awareness
Students are already making cybersecurity decisions every day. Giving them a list of rules is not the same as teaching them how to recognize a threat.
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No.09
Unifying Language in School Transformation Frameworks
A shared vocabulary can enhance collaboration in educational transformation, revealing common goals across diverse frameworks.
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No.10
How the Silk Road Actually Worked (and What Could Go Terribly Wrong On It)
You don’t have to spend a long time reading up on the Silk Road before you see the term itself (“Silk Road”) called a misnomer. In fact, what we refer to by that name comprises a whole network of trad...
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No.11
How Martin Luther King, Jr. Used Nietzsche, Hegel & Kant to Overturn Segregation in America
Image by Dick DeMarsico, via Wikimedia Commons The influence of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on the revolutionary philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is well known. Marx wrote a critique of ...
Read the entry →Cultivating Student Resilience: Practical Strategies for Well-Being
The introduction of self-regulation and stress-management strategies into higher education curricula has recently come into focus as a necessary component of promoting resilience and preventing future...
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No.13
The compliance trap waiting on the other side of Title II
Every few years, something shifts how schools think about accessibility. A law changes, a new technology arrives, or a group of advocates succeeds in bringing attention to the topic. Right now, it's T...
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No.14
Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in 25,000-Year-Old Teeth
Image by Fakhri “Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in Really Old Teeth” may sound like odd headline language, at least by the traditional standards of the New York Times. But then,...
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No.15
“Evil Mickey Mouse” Invades Japan in a 1934 Japanese Anime Propaganda Film
Before the Japanese fell completely, one hundred percent in love with anything and everything Disney (I mean, seriously, they love it), Mickey Mouse represented something completely different: Pure Am...
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