The Term ‘Digital Divide’ Doesn’t Work Anymore
Unlike educational gaps in literacy or mathematics, the digital gap does not have a basic closure benchmark that…
Browsing Tag
Education
705 posts
A Brief History of Increasingly Violent PG-13 Films
Suicide Squad is just the latest installment in an aggressive cinematic trend.
Why Science Should Be Crowdsourced — Sometimes
Crowds are excellent at finding answers to problems, but we still need scientists to work at defining the…
The Humanities Behind Bars
Learning to be free while sitting in a maximum-security prison. By Nancy Shepherdson The cells of the Illinois…
Computers in the English Class
How an early digital humanities experiment helped college students grapple with modern poetry—and changed education forever. By Jennifer…
Using Evaluation to Help Teachers Learn
It’s past time for us to realize that our current method of evaluating teachers deserves a failing grade.…
End Internships
The unpaid internship system is unfair to students and exploitative to workers — young women in particular. By Malcolm Harris…
Is School Integration Finally Making the Grade?
The dramatic growth in the number of school districts pursuing socioeconomic diversity is good news. Research suggests there…
Is Your School’s Plan Right for Your Special Needs Child?
School districts create roadmaps to help special needs kids thrive. But parents need to dig to find out…
Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap
A new program that teaches librarians how to edit Wikipedia might broaden the site’s user diversity. By Rick…