Star-studded classroom livens up online learning
Even the cat from the viral "woman yelling at cat" meme is in attendance
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Catholic school forced white student to accept critical race theory with ‘false imprisonment’: lawsuit
The day before a Nevada mother sued her son’s charter school for forcing him to take a class that promotes hostility against whites as a race, a Missouri family sued a Catholic girls school for its heavy-handed implementation of critical race theory, at least administratively.
‘All the worst parts of college’: Students reflect on a year of online classes
The fall semester on college campuses felt a bit like finals week, over and over. Students hunkered down, with little spontaneity or socializing to break up the monotony. And there’s more of the same to look forward to this spring.
A Failure to Educate
This week’s Capitol riots have been repeatedly described as “unthinkable.” Yet happen they did, so how do we start to think about them? Many academics have an answer: the humaniti
Student pressure for refunds in England becoming ‘unstoppable’
V-cs urge government to compensate universities over pandemic rent waivers, with fee refunds also expected to become ‘political football’
UK universities ‘weighing options’ on EU student fee discounts
Some opt to keep EU fees at same or similar levels to home fees post-Brexit to avoid ‘killing market’, as others consider legal questions
Harvard Department of Astronomy chair: We were visited by an alien artifact 3 years ago
Was it the Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey? Rama from the Arthur C. Clarke’s series? A piece of “scrith” from Larry Niven’s Ringworld?
After attempting to recall students who voted ‘no,’ Cornell student assembly passes resolution for disarming university police
Cornell University’s student assembly passed a resolution to disarm the school’s police department.
University gives students free credits for taking ‘race, equity and inclusion’ classes
A Jesuit university is offering undergraduate students a “J-Term” between semesters that is centered around “race, equity, and inclusion.”
Online schooling: Calls to cut data fees during Covid lockdowns
Internet providers are under pressure to do more to help low-income families afford data packages for their children to take part in remote learning.
