Science & Technology | Technology

Roblox tricks kids into coding with 'Jurassic Park'

Roblox is something of a mix between a game and a development platform. It allows users to play games developed by other people, as well as create their own gam...

Advice & Self-Help | Education

5 Tricks for Learning a New Language as an Adult

Here are some tricks to help you learn a new language as an adult.

History | History

One-third of Americans don't believe 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust

Seventy percent of Americans believe people care less about the Holocaust than they used to.

Politics | Education or Indoctrination?

How Politically Biased Are Universities? New Study Finds It's Far Worse Than Anybody Thought.

It's no secret that the majority of the faculty at our colleges and universities lean heavily to the left and generally support the Democratic Party's agenda, and study after study over the last few decades has shown that ideological and politic

Politics | Education or Indoctrination?

Students petition to eliminate ‘offensive’ Colonial mascot

George Washington University students have launched a petition demanding that the school change its “offensive” mascot, the Colonial.

The current generation of American students are the most foolish and narcissistic in human history.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Steven Spielberg urges mandatory Holocaust education

Director, actors, recall filming ‘Schindler’s List’ at special 25th anniversary screening

He is very obviously correct about this.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

These 25 Public Colleges Give Students the Biggest Return on Investment | Money

PayScale's annual College Return on Investment report shows graduates of schools with heavy STEM emphasis earn the most.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Nature Is Risky. That’s Why Students Need It.

Some hate the jungle, but most find hidden strength and unanticipated freedom.

Politics | Politics

How PragerU Is Winning The Right-Wing Culture War Without Donald Trump

A right-wing online "university" is on track for a billion views in 2018, its professors are some of the best-known conservatives in media, and its founder wants to put it in real schools. So how come you've never heard of it?

I have to be honest. I love PragerU. I have learned more from their videos than from my time in college, and that also included my post-grad work.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice

Here are 300 free Ivy League university courses you can take online right now — Quartz

The eight Ivy League schools are among the most prestigious colleges in the world. They include Brown, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, and Columbia universities, and the University of Pennsylvania. All eight schools place in the top fifteen

Politics | Immigration

Immigration and the Failures of Education

Immigration and the Failures of Education

News | The News

Students are being prepared for jobs that no longer exist. Here's how that could change.

As automation disrupts the labor market and good middle-class jobs disappear, schools are struggling to equip students with future-proof skills.

Family & Parenting | Kids

Math questions from the SATs that everyone gets wrong

The SAT doesn't just test how good you are at math, reading, and writing — it tests how good you are at taking the SAT. Can you solve these 8 common problems?

Science & Technology | Technology

David Pogue's Rated:App: Human Anatomy Atlas 2018

Yahoo Finance's David Pogue reviews Human Anatomy Atlas 2018, an app that gives you an interactive, incredibly detailed, medically accurate jaw-dropping 3-D view of the human body.

Science & Technology | Technology

Magic Leap opens up its ‘Creator Portal’ with SDK and design guidelines for devs | TechCrunch

After maintaining a quiet presence for quite a while, Magic Leap is finally feeling a bit more chatty, at least when it comes to what they’re sharing with developers. As the Game Developers Conference kicks off in San Francisco this week, Magic Leap is

Science & Technology | Technology

Repl.it lets you program in your browser

No matter whether you are a seasoned programmer or you simply want to take

Politics | Education or Indoctrination?

Student Booted From Christianity Class For Telling Professor There Are Only Two Genders | Daily Wire

In the current year, it's apparently permissible to ban a student from a class on Christianity for expressing inconvenient truths to a feminist professor.

"You are barred from attending this class in accordance with the Classroom Disruption policy," said a letter dated March 2 from IUP Provost Timothy Moerland to Ingle." In other words, think like us or else. And I have no doubt that this "professor" claims that she is "tolerant" and loves "diversity." The far left in America is now a fully fascist entity.

Science & Technology | Cool Stuff

Why Drinking Straws Don't Work In Space

Why would it be impossible to suck a liquid into your mouth using a straw on the moon? This question was originally answered on Quora by C Stuart Hardwick.

Psychology | Parenting and Kids

A Case Study on Punishment

When you were punished as a child, did it work? Or did you just strategize how to get away with your behavior the next time?

Miscellaneous | Other Kinds of Whatnot

Lego is helping physics students stay in school, 'cos it's the best

Teachers at Flinders University in Australia are using Lego cars to help physics students understand concepts like measurement error and variability.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links!

Evidence mounts that laptops are terrible for students at lectures

Time to reconsider the notebook and pen

News | Interesting Stuff

BBC - Future - The uncertain future of handwriting

Computers and tablets are changing how we write – will the ability and need to wield a pen die out altogether?

Politics | Education or Indoctrination?

Students Protest Intro Humanities Course at Reed - The Atlantic

Activists are disrupting lectures to protest "white supremacy," but many students are taking steps to stop them.

Anyone who has seen the video knows that there is NO blackface, and that the song, and performance, satirized the "Egyptmania" of the late 70s when the King Tut exhibit came to the United States. Thinking people, i.e. everyone at the time, understood that it was mocking that fad, not "appropriating" culture. These students are, literally, morons.

Politics | Education or Indoctrination?

NO MORE SHAKESPEARE: Yale ‘Decolonizes’ English Department After Being Accused Of Too Much ‘Whiteness’

Yale has successfully “decolonized” its English department, and some lucky students are now enrolled in a new course created by the department to ward off claims of departmental racism. Better yet, new standards have been implemented to guarantee a mo

Psychology | Parenting and Kids

The ‘Problem Child’ Is a Child, Not a Problem

Suspending or expelling young students for behavior they can’t control makes matters worse. There is a better way.

History | History

Auschwitz-Birkenau: 4 out of 10 German students don′t know what it was | News | DW | 28.09.2017

Just 47 percent of 14- to 16-year-olds in Germany know that Auschwitz-Birkenau was a Nazi death camp, a survey shows. Its authors cite fewer history lessons as a reason.

When I was in my 20s, I knew Germans in their 30s who knew next to nothing about the Holocaust. These were people who grew up in its immediate aftermath. Germany is still schizophrenic about Holocaust education and that only feeds the deniers in their despicable attempts.

Family & Parenting | Kids

The Best Bookstores for Kids in the U.S.

Here are the top 50 bookstores for kids in the country.

Science & Technology | Apps I Like

This app could be the key to speaking a second language

uTalk Language Education teaches you how native speakers actually talk, so you're not listening to a robot with strange intonation and inflection.

Politics | Politics

Annenburg: Americans are constitutionally illiterate

The annual Constitution Day survey of American knowledge of the Constitution was released today. Don't get your hopes up; it's as depressing as ever.

This is just pathetic. One third of Americans can't name ONE of the three branches of government? Only 25% can name all three? One third can't name A SINGLE RIGHT? Clearly, our educational system has failed. We really need to rethink our commonly held assumption that anyone should vote. The Founders assumed a certain level of understanding in those that voted. Doesn't it seem obvious that allowing completely uninformed people to vote is a mistake? So we have two choices, limit who can vote, OR start educating the populace again. I vote for the latter!

Politics | The War On Gender

California first-grader sent to principal's office for misgendering classmate - Washington Times

An elite charter school in California has been rocked by scandal since the end of the last school year, when a kindergarten teacher read her class a pair of books advocating transgender ideology, and a male kindergartener was reintroduced to the class as

The left is the place where fascism thrives. You must think what we think, or else you will face the consequences. You have to see the irony in the people who insist that they, exclusively, understand science insisting that gender is fluid. These children are being abused. End of story.

"Kindergarteners and first-graders must be taught that “there are many ways to express gender,” according to the guidelines, which took effect this school year."

Business & Finance | Business

The Startup Teaching Languages That Have Almost No Teachers

After failing to find a Buryat instructor, Inky Gibbens launched Tribalingual to offer e-courses in endangered languages spoken only by thousands of people.

Family & Parenting | Kids

Numworks graphing calculator is made for students raised on tech

Like textbooks, graphing calculators are still a necessary (and expensive) accessory for math and science students in high school and college. Sure, there are calculator apps for tablets and smartphones, but those are often banned for tests because they

News | NEWS

THE 40 WORST COLLEGES FOR JEWISH STUDENTS, 2016

The Algemeiner’s 1st Annual List of the US and Canada’s Worst Campuses for Jewish Students Of all the great and …

It's obvious that the only widely accepted form of bigotry on American campuses is hatred toward Jews.

Health & Fitness | Sleep

Why Teens Fall Asleep in Class

Science says it’s biology.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Why Kids Can’t Write

Advice & Self-Help | Education

How to save money on college: 3 clever ways Gen Z is managing high tuition and other costs

Monstrous student debt? No way. Teens are disrupting the old way of thinking about education.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

L.A. school board salaries more than double to $125,000 a year

L.A. school board gets huge raise: $45,637 to $125,000 a year

Science & Technology | Technology

Google's 'superpower' for teachers: AR and VR

So far, Google's AR program has taken 2 million kids to the coral reefs and space.

News | NEWS

Elie Wiesel’s Only Son Steps Up to His Father’s Legacy

Miscellaneous | OTHER STUFF

NBA Great Ray Allen Is on a Mission to Educate Everybody About the Holocaust

Ray Allen at the entrance of Auschwitz. (Image by Elan Kawesch) Last December, retired NBA champion Ray Allen was named a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by then-President Barack Obama. Allen said he was honored to be named to the o

I think this is a great story. The world needs more people like Ray Allen.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

If the Haggadah Is Right, We’ve Got Education All Wrong - Crucial lessons to take from the Haggadah for the whole year

From a child's answers, you might know something about what the child knows. From a child's question, you know who the child is.

Family & Parenting | Kids

Little Free Library: Neighborhood Book Exchange

The big idea behind the Little libraries is encouraging neighborhood interaction by sharing resources.

Psychology | Parenting and Kids

Why Kids Shouldn’t Sit Still in Class

Movement stimulates the brain and may help students become better learners.

Health & Fitness | Sleep

To Sleep, Perhaps to Learn

Odds are the kids in your life are not getting enough sleep. Scientists now know that sleep is needed for "smart forgetting."

Science & Technology | Virtual Reality

Can Virtual Reality Teach Empathy?

In November 2015, middle school students from Westchester County, New York, found themselves on a windswept field in South Sudan mingling with a crowd ...

Family & Parenting | Kids

17 Easy Science Experiments for Kids

Try these 17 super simple and fun kid-friendly science experiments at home.

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

To Truly Learn Something, Study Way More Than You Need

The advantages of “overlearning.”

Psychology | Parenting and Kids

Teach Kids Philosophy, It Makes Them Better at Math

Not what to think, but how to think.

History | History

History classes are our best hope for teaching Americans to question fake news and Donald Trump

An education in history teaches students to question the stories that are handed to us.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice

A Nobel prize-winning physicist identified three simple steps to mastering any subject

The Feynman Technique will help you learn anything deeper and faster.

Politics | POLITICS

America's Educational Divide Put Trump in the White House

Even controlling for race and income, the concentration of college degrees was the strongest indicator of whether a county would back the Republican.

Politics | Politics

Q & A with Betsy DeVos

Education reform advocate empowering parents to choose the best education for their children.

Psychology | Parenting and Kids

Creating An Ideal Learning Environment

New research uses computer games and wearables to assess the physical and mental states that correspond to optimal attention and self-control among children and

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Schools That Work

The evidence is now overwhelming: One type of charter school has repeatedly shown impressive results.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

The School of Wants and Needs — and Wood-Fired Showers

A prep school that prepares students for entry into competitive colleges, but also teaches them how to raise livestock, grow vegetables and chop wood.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Your smart kid is making it harder for my kid to learn

It has long been acknowledged that students who are behind can jeopardize the rest of the kids in their class, but a new report found that in some cases nearly half of all school children were learning above grade level.

Advice & Self-Help | Dr. Eleanor's Books & Audios

Cosmic Secrets: A Key to Self Discover (Beyond Human Design)

Consciousness is a state of being that we often take for granted. But true consciousness—and all the multidimensionality that comes with it—is the key to unlocking a deeper and more meaningful relationship with our own personalities.

My work in Human Design led me as a social scientist to develop an expanded and more accurate model of de-coding personality and how an individual functions. My charts are unique, like a fingerprint, for each individual. Learn how to look at your own chart and understand more about the way you function and your strategy for decision-making. The book is illustrated beautifully to help you understand.

Advice & Self-Help | Dr. Eleanor's Books & Audios

Astrology Essentials: Understanding Charts (Beyond Human Design)

Activate the knowledge deep inside of you and learn how to chart your future with Astrology Essentials, a user-friendly guide from author Eleanor Haspel-Portner, PhD.

When I first studied astrology in 1971, I thought it was the most complex and difficult thing I had studied - and I had already completed my highly statistical research PhD at the University of Chicago. I went on to work hard to learn astrology as part of my multidimensional work and wrote this book to simplify the study and to share the tools that helped me master the subject.

Science & Technology | Tech

How to make computer coding child’s play | Technology | The Guardian

With programming lessons now part of the school day, can parents help their offspring get top marks? Fear not – toys, gadgets and apps are all available to make coding a fun part of growing up

Health & Fitness | Sleep

This Sleep Pattern Leads To Faster Learning That Lasts Longer

50% improvement in learning from this sleep technique.

Psychology | Parenting and Kids

What #Babies Know About Physics and Foreign Languages

Our kids don’t need to be taught in order to learn.

Research demonstrates how babies learn....

Books | Books

8 facts that will convince you to read a book instead of binge-watching TV tonight - Business Insider

Binge-watching suddenly doesn't look so attractive.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Learn a Foreign Language Quickly | The Art of Manliness

Learn how to learn a foreign language quickly and fluently from a man who knows how to speak 12 different languages.

Really? We'll see. I am skeptical, but it's an interesting article.

Science & Technology | Cool Stuff

A lot of people are having trouble with this math problem that requires some basic algebra

Nothing like a viral mind boggling math problem to make you feel like you should have paid better attention in high school…

Business & Finance | Business & Finance

Making of Katti Batti at FLAME University - YouTube

Cast and crew of the movie Katti Batti spent a fair amount of time on the FLAME University campus while shooting. The lead of the film, Imran Khan and Kangan...

Business & Finance | Business & Finance

Liberal Education - A FLAME Perspective - YouTube

A playground to juggle seemingly disparate ideas in your mind and look for intersections between them - FLAME University is driven to foster such growth and ...

Business & Finance | Business & Finance

My World at FLAME University - YouTube

FLAME University: This video is a montage of life at FLAME University from the perspective of students and the faculty. Get a glimpse of the new buildings, a...

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

The Best Way To Boost Your Memory Is Already In Your Hand

Behold the power of writing.

Politics | The Hall of Idiots

Students Create ‘Healing’ Space to Recover from a Speech They Didn’t Even Attend

Months after a speech from a conservative speaker on campus, students who didn't attend it claim to be traumitized.

Seriously wusses?

"Students at California State University–Los Angeles have set up a “healing” space to deal with pain they were caused by having Ben Shapiro speak on campus — even though that speech was three months ago and most of them didn’t even go."

Science & Technology | Technology

Google teams up with MIT to make programming easier for kids

Google is teaming up with MIT's Media Lab to create Scratch Blocks, an updated version of the kid-centric programming language.

I think it's very important to get kids into programming!

Health & Fitness | News Items

Researchers identify genetic links to educational attainment

NIH-funded study examines genetic influences on behavior.

Science & Technology | Technology

How Wooden Toys Teach Kids to Code

Is an old-school marble run better than an iPad for teaching young children to code? Why educational toys that focus on the physical world rather than the computer screen are so effective

Politics | Education or Indoctrination?

Artist Paints Over Campus Mural of Gun Shooting Out Flowers Because One Student Found It ‘Triggering’

An artist painted over an image of a gun shooting out flowers — a classic anti-violence symbol — that had been part of a pro-peace mural she had painted at Pitzer College (part of the Claremont University Consortium) because one student claimed he fo

This is literally pathetic.

Psychology | Parenting and Kids

Gap Year May Have Benefits Long After College

In “There Is Life After College,” Jeffrey Selingo explores how the post-college experience doesn’t look much like the journey we ourselves took a generation ago, and how a gap year can help.

Science & Technology | Technology

This cute little robot can teach your kid (and you) how to code

Root is a robot created by a team of researchers from Harvard that can teach basic to advanced coding. The team hopes it can be used in schools worldwide.

Miscellaneous | Other Kinds of Whatnot

The Ultimate Guide to Learning Anything Faster

Want to master business skills, a new language, a musical instrument? Use these six principles.

News | Interesting Stuff

The Value of Using Podcasts in Class

Two years ago, I was practically begging a student to read a novel in my high-school English class. This isn’t an unusual problem. The girl, who’s a relatively bright, college-bound athlete, told me that she “just gets too distracted after five minutes” of reading.

Politics | The Hall of Idiots

‘Sensitivity’ fascists are turning colleges into day-care centers

How will today’s college students function once they leave campus and find the world no giant “safe space” protecting them from things they don’t want to hear? University of Pittsburgh students las…

Advice & Self-Help | Empowering Tools for Growth

Doing a TED Talk: The Full Story - Wait But Why

In August of 2015, I was invited to give a TED Talk. Here's the full (very stressful) story.

Family & Parenting | Kids

California Student Data Release: Court Changes Course | Patch

Pleasanton, CA - Parents worried about the release of sensitive records sent an avalanche of objection letters to the court.

Family & Parenting | Parenting

What Kids Need From Grown-Ups (But Aren't Getting)

Author Erika Christakis mounts a spirited defense of a four-letter word that, she says, isn't used nearly enough in early classrooms: play.

This is a great article. Great for ANYONE who interacts with a child.

Miscellaneous | Interesting stuff

Educational Freedom: An Introduction

Educational Freedom Wiki PagesIntroduction Government Schools, Democracy, and Social Conflict Parental Choice and Responsibility School Freedom and Competition Educational Choice and Accountability The Way Forward: Scholarship Tax Credits or Vouchers? Per

Saving to dig into. Side note: Cato is starting to sound a tiny bit socialist

Business & Finance | Business

The 15 Most Popular Free Online Courses for Professionals

It's never too late to invest in your career. Fortunately, we live in a time where we all have access to an elite education at our fingertips, not to mention completely free of charge.

Science & Technology | Cool Stuff

Crazy Video: Physics teacher shoots himself underwater to prove a scientific principle

Physicists love conducting strange, if not wholly bizarre and seemingly dangerous, experiments in order to showcase whatever scientific principles they're trying to impart to students or the public at large. Most recently, physicist Andreas Wahl deci

Science & Technology | Tech

When Virtual Reality Meets Education

Since the 1950s, virtual reality (VR) has been hovering on the periphery of technology without achieving accepted mainstream application or commercial..