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2023-06-02 | In all the conversations about improving education for children, the voices of students, teachers and community members are often left out. Educational designer Punya Mishra offers a method to shift that paradigm, taking us through new thinking on the ... |
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2023-04-07 |
The rise of the "trauma essay" in college applications | Tina Yong As if college applications aren't stressful enough, disadvantaged youth are often encouraged to write about their darkest traumas in their admissions essays, creating a marketable story of resilience that turns "pain into progress," says politics stude... |
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2023-03-09 |
How video games can level up the way you learn | Kris Alexander Video games naturally tap into the way we learn: they focus our attention and track our progress as we head toward a clear goal. Kris Alexander, a professor of video game design and passionate gamer himself, thinks the same elements should be used in t... |
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2023-02-28 |
Reviving the legacy of the Black teaching tradition | Sharif El-Mekki Educator Sharif El-Mekki advocates for the revival of the Black teaching tradition — a set of educational practices grounded in philosophies, values and actions that stretch from pre-colonial Africa to historical African American leaders. He posits tha... |
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2023-02-01 |
How Black queer culture shaped history | Channing Gerard Joseph Names like Bayard Rustin, Frances Thompson and William Dorsey Swann have been largely erased from US history, but they and other Black queer leaders played central roles in monumental movements like emancipation, civil rights and LGBTQ+ pride, among ot... |
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2022-12-20 |
The board game getting kids excited about school | Joel Baraka Going to school in a refugee camp can be complicated: students encounter crowded classrooms, rigid curricula and limited access to teachers. Joel Baraka, who grew up in the Kyangwali refugee camp in Uganda, is determined to change that for the better. ... |
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2022-12-15 | A little bit of playtime can have big benefits for a child's developing brain, like a superfood -- but adult participation is a crucial ingredient for best results. Early-education leader Jesse Ilhardt makes the case for you to put down the phone, pick... |
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2022-08-30 |
The most powerful yet overlooked resource in schools | Heejae Lim "When teachers and families work together, everyone wins," says education technology entrepreneur and TED Fellow Heejae Lim. She shines a light on an underutilized resource in US public education -- a family's love for their children -- and shows that,... |
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2022-07-21 |
How schools can nurture every student's genius | Trish Millines Dziko Forget home economics and standardized tests, education visionary Trish Millines Dziko has a much more engaging and fulfilling way for students to develop real-world skills. Get schooled by Dziko as she shares how project-based learning can transform p... |
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2022-06-17 |
The mission to safeguard Black history in the US | Julieanna L. Richardson Black history in the US is rich, profound -- and at risk of being lost forever, if not for the monumental efforts of Julieanna L. Richardson. As the founder of The HistoryMakers -- the largest national archive of African American video-oral history -- ... |
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