As the nation marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Smithsonian invites educators to ...

All right. The ongoing Ebola outbreak is an example of how a disease can jump from animals to humans and then spread through a population. A new study looks at one of the most prolific pathogens in ...

SINGAPORE – A local study has found that secondary school students from lower-income families are not a homogeneous group held back by a lack of resources. Researchers from the National Institute of ...

SINGAPORE – The quest to potentially tap the heat of the earth continues to sizzle, as Singapore will conduct a feasibility study on deploying geothermal energy systems here. This comes as the ...

Riceville, Iowa, was the unlikely setting for a controversial classroom exercise created by Jane Elliott. She insists it strengthened their character. Critics say it abused their trust. Layne Kennedy ...

Since winning power in 2010, Mr Orban has steadily removed checks and balances, neutering the judiciary, stuffing the bureaucracy with stooges and gradually co-opting nearly every independent ...

Cowden et al. use nationally representative data from 22 countries included in Wave 1 of the Global Flourishing Study to explore associations of individual characteristics and retrospectively recalled ...

Eleven years ago, there I was. Every Sunday. A first-year teacher struggling for hours on end to design, draft, and submit a halfway-decent lesson plan for the impending week. With practice, lesson ...

Abstract: In the context of intelligent education, this paper explores the application of digital physical education (PE) in middle schools through the example of a digital tennis teaching platform.

Walk into Tamekia Davis’s 11th-grade classroom and you may see students’ desks covered in beans—but it’s not a cooking class. “The beans will represent your salary,” announces Davis, a teacher at ...

Lion Feuchtwanger’s 1933 novel “The Oppermanns,” newly reissued, raises salient questions about the relationship between art and politics. By Joshua Cohen There is a famous saying in Talmud, ...

Consider the following situation: Two experts give you advice about whether you should eat or avoid the fat in common cooking oils. One of them tells you confidently that there are “good” or “bad” ...