With waiting lists in the thousands, the state’s vo-tech campuses are highly sought after, even attracting college-bound students

Open-ended learning environments (OELEs) are educational settings that encourage students to explore, experiment, and construct their own understanding of STEM concepts. While OELEs can increase engagement and deepen learning, they can be challenging for novice learners who may lack the self-regulated learning (SRL) skills needed to manage their own learning effectively. Recent research highlights the importance of students’ emotions (affective states) and thinking processes

As reinvention pressure rises, leaders need to rewire their decision-making .

Teachers are generally much more concerned about doing right by their students than they are about angering parents and community members.

In a year when the United States seemed more split than ever, Americans united in one way: We demanded results and we wanted them now.

A majority of teens are interacting with AI companions, and many of their parents have no idea . Summary: A mother discovered her 11-year-old daughter was engaging with AI chatbots on Character AI, leading to disturbing conversations. The mother, identified as H, found explicit and harmful content, prompting her to seek help from authorities. The incident highlights the challenges parents face in protecting children from AI platforms, as these technologies pose significant ri

A public-relations expert makes the case for putting dignity at the center of our social world.

My wife and I followed our parents’ example. Our kids didn’t always like it, but the point was to help them thrive as adults.

We built genius machines, and gave them our blind spots.

The Trump administration says it will dismantle a premier climate center, while somehow keeping weather forecasting intact.

For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it. Excerpt: "As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose procurement ought to be easy and frictionless. The humanities, which value rigorous inquiry for its own sake, will always be at odds with a world that thinks thi

The Harker School, a magnet for the children of tech luminaries, has a venture pool for students. ‘It’s always a little weird when you’re pitching a 17-year-old,’ says one founder.

Terms like ‘affordability,’ ‘socialism’ and ‘famine’ take on new, politically convenient meanings.

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

DM Is a water molecule (H20) generally stable (aka: somewhat "permanent") in its solid, liquid and gaseous states; or does it diminish/return to hydrogen and liquid; or does it change into other more complex or different molecules? I realize there are "lighter" formations of water. Water molecules are remarkably stable across all three phases - solid ice, liquid water, and gaseous steam. The H₂O molecule itself doesn't spontaneously break apart into hydrogen and oxygen under

For all its promise, tech risks instilling in students an unthinking yet false understanding of themselves, writes University of Dallas President Jonathan J. Sanford.

The attack at Brown University is just the latest example.

The problem with fixating on inequality, oligarchy, and other abstractions Excerpt: "As Stephen Colbert explained long ago , common sense comes from thinking “from the gut, not the brain.” Psychologists have a more sophisticated way of articulating this distinction. As readers of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow or Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink know, the human mind exhibits two different systems of cognition. The first is rapid and concrete, focusing on primary represent

History shows that progress often depends on activists at both ends of the spectrum. More from " The Engine of Progress" ... Exploring the people and ideas driving humanity forward.

Short-form video is taking over everything (including reading).