Tag: The Conversation
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Can schools punish students for off-campus, online speech?
Clay Calvert, University of Florida In January 2014, Reid Sagehorn, a student at Rogers High School in Minnesota, jokingly tweeted “actually yeah” in response to a ... -
Fulfilling Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream: the role for higher education
Roland V. Anglin, Rutgers University Newark ; David D. Troutt, Rutgers University Newark ; Elise Boddie, Rutgers University Newark ; Nancy Cantor, Rutgers University Newark , ... -
Girls are kept out of science jobs by unhelpful stereotypes
Anna Zecharia, Imperial College London The number of girls taking A-level physics has remained stagnant for the past 20 years or more, and the UK has ... -
College grads still earn a premium — if they can find a good job
Robert Reich, University of California, Berkeley The early admissions deadlines for universities across the country have come and gone, and acceptance letters are on their way. ... -
What kind of university can help reduce poverty?
Tristan McCowan, UCL Institute of Education For decades, development agencies have encouraged low and middle-income countries to focus their education spending on primary schools and basic ... -
What can the U.S. learn from South Korea’s testing pressures?
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest posts are ... -
Hard Evidence: at what age are children ready for school?
David Whitebread, University of Cambridge When are children “ready” for school? There is much debate about when the transition between play-based pre-school and the start of ... -
School metal detectors reduce weapon carrying but not fear
Paul Hirschfield, Rutgers University The recent horrifying spectacle of a disturbed student fatally stabbing his teacher in front of his classmates in Leeds has spurred a ... -
US losing its dominance in global higher education market
Jason Lane, University at Albany, State University of New York The Conversation’s international teams are collaborating on a series of articles about the Globalisation of Higher ... -
Early-career researchers the missing link for STEM diversity
Maggie Hardy, The University of Queensland When high school physics teacher Moses Rifkin wrote a recent blog post on “Teaching Social Justice in the Physics Classroom,” ...
