by Beth Holmes | Mar 7, 2022 | News, Other
Skoltech, a Russian graduate university, is being cut off by MIT over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In 2011, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology partnered with the Russian government to found the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, generally known...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 28, 2022 | News, Other, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The Taliban hasn’t been paying teachers in Afghanistan. Now UNICEF is stepping in to make sure Afghan children don’t lose all access to education. The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last August, international trade and banking sanctions against the new...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 21, 2022 | News, Student Issues
The Rye Riptides, an unmanned sailboat launched by students in New Hampshire, has made it to a Norway beach after more than a year. The Rye Riptides is a six-foot-long miniature sailboat with a rigid, fixed sail sent off by the students of Rye Junior High in October...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 14, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Maus, the deeply evocative graphic novel about the Holocaust, was banned in a Tennessee school district for being ‘inappropriate.’ The McMinn County School Board has been reviewing the literature in their curriculum and libraries for what is appropriate...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 7, 2022 | News, Teacher Issues
Hackers preying on infrastructure have turned their attention to schools, the very last people who need that kind of stress. In Albuquerque, New Mexico earlier this school year, a ransomware attack locked teachers out of the district’s student database –...
