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Educators have pointed advice for tech companies building the metaverse

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

EdSurge

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Indian teacher and students wearing protective face mask attend their class at a government girls school after the Rajasthan government allowed schools to reopen for VIth to VIIIth classes in Beawar. (Photo by Sumit Saraswat/Pacific Press/Sipa USA) (Photo by Sumit Saraswat/Pacific Press/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Reimagining teaching and learning spaces

Zia Khan, John W. McArthur, Elizabeth M. King, and Urvashi Sahni

Thursday, January 20, 2022

BAMYAN, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 8, 2021: Tenth-grade pupils attend a lesson at a secondary school for girls. Upon the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban movement (banned in Russia) declared the establishment of its control over the whole country on September 6, a new government formed a day later. Among other reforms, the Taliban have also introduced a number of restrictions concerning education and employment for girls and women. Alexandra Kovalskaya/TASS.No use Russia.

Echidna Global Scholars: Better learning opportunities and life outcomes for girls and young women

Jennifer L. O’Donoghue, Nangyalai Attal, Arundhuti Gupta, Edem Dorothy Ossai, and Tran Thi Ngoc Tran

Thursday, December 23, 2021

An empty computer science classroom is seen at the University of Somalia in Mogadishu, July 13, 2017. Picture taken July 13, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Computer science education builds skills for life

Michael Hansen, Emiliana Vegas, and Fred Dews

Friday, November 19, 2021

A mother and child look at a globe

S1 Ep26: Rebecca Winthrop, The Brookings Institution

Rebecca Winthrop

Remaking Tomorrow

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Teacher helping student at computer

Building skills for life: How to expand and improve computer science education around the world

Emiliana Vegas, Michael Hansen, and Brian Fowler

Monday, October 25, 2021

There Is Nothing For You Here

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

By Fiona Hill

2021

Jenny Doss, an early childhood special education teacher at Ben Franklin Elementary School, works with her K-5 class at the school in Menomonee Falls on June 8. Doss is speaking out against Republican lawmakers' spending proposal, which only calls for a slight boost in special education funding.MJS-special education funding00p1

Challenges to early childhood education in the wake of COVID-19

Jon Valant, Miriam Calderon, Jenna Conway, and Christina Weiland

Friday, September 3, 2021

A student wearing a protective mask, attends class on the first day of school, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at St. Lawrence Catholic School in North Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. August 18, 2021. REUTERS/Marco Bello

What does back-to-school look like during COVID?

Jon Valant and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

A girl gestures as she takes part in a demonstration as part of a global day of action on climate change at the school in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa, September 25, 2020. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham

Girls’ education is key to climate change solutions

Christina Kwauk, Lucia Fry, Raju Kumar Narzary, and Fred Dews

Friday, April 30, 2021