The Joys of Being an Absolute Beginner—For Life
The phrase ‘adult beginner’ can sound patronising. It implies you are learning something you should have mastered as a child. But learning is not just for the young.
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The phrase ‘adult beginner’ can sound patronising. It implies you are learning something you should have mastered as a child. But learning is not just for the young.
Tom Vanderbilt Guardian Jan 2021 15min Permalink
Has a desire to keep the coronavirus out of schools put children’s long-term well-being at stake?
Alec MacGillis ProPublica Sep 2020 35min Permalink
It was once a widely accepted way of explaining why some children struggled to read and write. But in recent years, some experts have begun to question the existence of dyslexia itself.
Sirin Kale Guardian Sep 2020 25min Permalink
Filipino teachers, hired to fill historic shortages in the South and elsewhere, fight their exploitation by opportunistic recruiters.
Rachel Mabe Oxford American Aug 2020 30min Permalink
When a group of Black mothers in Ohio were told to wait for school integration, they started marching every day in protest. They kept going for nearly 18 months.
Sarah Stankorb The Atavist Magazine Jun 2020 45min Permalink
Bruce Fleming is known for being a chauvinistic, egoistic loudmouth–but firing him has been a lot harder than the Pentagon thought.
Benjamin Wofford Washingtonian Apr 2020 Permalink
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
Robert Lee, Tristan Ahtone High Country News Apr 2020 25min Permalink
A for-profit coding school that charges nothing but takes a portion of graduates future wages has been lying about how many students actually get placed.
Vincent Woo New York Feb 2020 10min Permalink
Children with internet implants.
Alexander Weinstein Lit Hub Jan 2020 Permalink
When her former student was found wandering the streets a decade after she’d last seen him, Michelle Girard immediately agreed to take him in. Then she decided to do far more, including give him the Christmas he’d never had.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Dec 2019 15min Permalink
A student navigates unexpected connections and the threat of terrorism.
J.E. Reich Little Fiction Nov 2019 30min Permalink
Most tycoons give big to one or two universities as their children approach college age. David Shaw gave to seven.
Ava Kofman, Daniel Golden ProPublica Sep 2019 20min Permalink
Elite schools say they’re looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all.
Paul Tough New York Times Magazine Sep 2019 Permalink
Dead and living girls communicate in the aftermath of a disaster.
Ayşe Papatya Bucak Lit Hub Aug 2019 15min Permalink
National developers are behind the proliferation of luxury apartments near college campuses, and they’re driving low-income students farther away.
Ali Breland Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2019 10min Permalink
In just the past few years, one union has organized close to 10,000 Florida adjuncts, in what is one of the most remarkable and little-noticed large scale labor campaigns in the country.
Hamilton Nolan Splinter Jun 2019 20min Permalink
What happens when you put a classroom on wheels and park it in the poorest neighborhoods of San Francisco?
Elizabeth Weil California Sunday Mar 2019 25min Permalink
California has more charter schools than any other state. But the way they’re overseen is flawed—and questionable operators are making millions.
Anna M. Phillips The Los Angeles Times Mar 2018 20min Permalink
The physical and sociological effects of climate change in Thailand.
Pitchaya Sudbanthad Guernica Mar 2019 15min Permalink
The battle over police torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.
Peter C. Baker The Point Feb 2019 35min Permalink
More than 600,000 U.S.-born children of undocumented parents live in Mexico. What happens when you return to a country you’ve never known?
Brooke Jarvis California Sunday Jan 2019 15min Permalink
The actual story behind those viral college acceptance videos out of T.M. Landry.
Erica L. Green, Katie Benner New York Times Nov 2018 25min Permalink
Forty years ago, a trio of student teachers created the most popular educational game of all-time.
Jessica Lussenhop City Pages Jan 2011 Permalink
The lives of a mortician mother and a wayward veteran stepfather.
Raven Leilani New England Review Sep 2018 15min Permalink
What if your son’s school thinks he might be a potential school shooter?
Bethany Barnes The Oregonian Jun 2018 15min Permalink