I am a successful physicist - ambitious, passionate about my work, with an excellent academic pedigree at top institutions. And yet because I am a woman, I have faced hurdles that no male with my credentials must face.
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Teaching evolution in a misrepresentative fashion is even more harmful than not teaching it at all (assuming students eventually will have other opportunities to learn from a knowledgeable teacher). It helps perpetuate misconceptions and misunderstandings about evolution.
Our students are not given enough opportunities to understand how humans affect environmental change. Discovering ways of infusing environmental education throughout a teacher's state-approved curriculum can be difficult and time-consuming.
The White House VP's office last month invited four organizations to participate in a discussion of K-12 sexual violence. Everyone present readily acknowledged the gravity of K-12 sexual violence. Yet policymakers and the public remain in the dark.
21st century skills. Throughout the world, we are talking about 21st century skills as if these particular skills have found their place in this particular time in the evolution of humanity.
Within my lifetime, Asians, Asian immigrants, and Asian Americans - despite blurriness in the lines, these are distinct categories - have come to be seen differently.
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The Berggruen Philosophy and Culture Center recently brought a diverse group of neuroscientists and philosophers together with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and programmers to answer this question: As developments in artificial intelligence extend or surpass human intelligence, do they challenge the traditional definition of what it means to be human? Here's what five of them had to say.
From K-12 through higher-ed, more tools and platforms are now churning out more highly detailed data than ever. Because of this new data, research is a more valuable and desirable tool than ever.
The F.B.I. has introduced an interactive online program called "Don't Be a Puppet" for teachers and students to help them identify potential violent extremists.
Unfortunately, there is not a single, quick solution to this challenging public health issue. Rather, it will take a sustained, collective effort across multiple sectors.
#BringBackOurGirls captured the world's attention two years ago. And then time passed. And the world's attention wavered. But in Nigeria, educators like Habiba Mohammed refuse to give up the fight for girls' education.