China to recruit retired teachers to rural schools
China plans to recruit 4,000 retired teachers to give classes in rural schools during the 2019-2020 school year, in an effort to improve education in rural areas.
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Nearly half of all N.Y. college students go hungry
In the coming weeks, thousands of college students will walk across a stage and proudly accept their diplomas. Many of them will be hungry.
Pedigree and Productivity
New study of computer scientists says that when it comes to research output, where Ph.D.s get hired matters more than where they trained.
Warming up to educating inmates
Signaling its interest in finding ways to better prepare inmates for successful re-entry into society, t
Scholar takes students’ phones and makes them read for four hours
David Peña-Guzmán says philosophy undergraduates have enthusiastically embraced experiment designed to ‘reignite their love of attentive reading’
Experimental colleges: an idea whose time has passed?
Struggles of Hampshire College suggest to some that students may be reluctant to shape their own degrees in a debt-heavy, career-focused higher education sector
Gonzaga ‘tunnel of oppression’: ‘Tear down the walls’
A Washington State school hosted an event aimed at showcasing different kinds of oppression.
Do Colleges Measure What They Value?
Study examines what colleges say they want students to learn and how they are measuring that learning.
Cyber sciences: Getting women into the room
When Ashley Podhradsky became the first woman to earn her doctorate from Dakota State University in South Dakota in 2010, little did she know the impact she would have nationally on the lives of girls and women in the male-dominated field of cyber sciences
Australian PhD students target careers outside academia
Trend reflects growing gap between PhD completions and academic job availability
