Despite established urban tech hubs, some smaller cities are attracting high-tech jobs with lower living costs, unique talent pools, and geographic diversity. Is high-tech America reaching an inflection point? The nation’s leading tech hubs in the Bay Area, Seattle, and … Continue reading America’s Tech Hubs Still Dominate, But Some Smaller Cities Are Rising
Resources to inspire curiosity in every classroom every day Building social and emotional-learning (SEL) skills such as curiosity requires face-to-face interaction, meaningful discussion, and reflection. Edtech is no complete substitute for that, but there are tools that can supplement the … Continue reading 12 activities & tools to build curiosity
Evictions are destabilizing events that increase families’ financial stress and strip away the psychological and physical security of having a home. These effects are particularly traumatizing for children, who often suffer emotionally and academically. While these negative consequences are well researched, … Continue reading How Many Children Experience Eviction During Childhood?
Dasjon Jordan’s classmates call him the mayor of New Orleans. And Jordan, a second-year master’s student in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), has indeed brought deep NOLA roots to MIT. His family has lived in the same … Continue reading Locally grown Graduate student Dasjon Jordan brings neighborhood roots to urban planning.
Fostering an environment where it’s OK to make mistakes is step one in getting students to speak a new language. Every new world language teacher can relate to this scenario: Standing at the front of the room, you ask a question. The … Continue reading More Talking in World Language Classes
Life is hard, and you’ll be better off if you practice doing hard things — like making your body purposefully uncomfortable Last year, I fell on my face more times than I had in all the previous years of my life combined. … Continue reading Working Out Is Powerful Brain Training
With each year, Earth Day grows more important than ever in educating younger generations about the planet, how humans have altered it, and how we can all support it so that it can continue supporting us. Through climate change, pollution, … Continue reading Earth Day is on Monday, April 22, 2019—help students understand the importance of conserving resources, recycling, and taking care of our planet with these lesson ideas and resources.
A quest to understand how human intelligence evolved raises some ethical questions. Human intelligence is one of evolution’s most consequential inventions. It is the result of a sprint that started millions of years ago, leading to ever bigger brains and … Continue reading Chinese scientists have put human brain genes in monkeys—and yes, they may be smarter
Most people’s to-do lists are, almost by definition, pretty dull, filled with those quotidian little tasks that tend to slip out of our minds. Pick up the laundry. Get that thing for the kid. Buy milk, canned yams and kumquats … Continue reading Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (Circa 1490) Is Much Cooler Than Yours
A primer on the impact of implicit biases in schools and how they can be expressed by students and faculty. Like everybody else, I possess unconscious biases about people that are contingent on how they talk and look. Such instant … Continue reading A Look at Implicit Bias and Microaggressions
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