Author: Nola Jones

Modern parents have a certain type of weariness. The low-level guilt of giving a toddler a tablet in order to get through dinner is just as much a part of it as sleep deprivation. It takes place on Sunday afternoons in Valencia, in kitchens in Seville, and in apartments all over Madrid. A parent takes a 30-second breath, a child calms down, and a screen continues. Afterward, nobody is completely satisfied with it. It turns out that that guilt has been subtly growing into something more. Additionally, the World Organization for Early Childhood Education’s national chapter, OMEP Spain, appears to…

The fact that Cynthia Erivo hardly ever pursued a career in acting is somewhat amazing. It wasn’t because she wasn’t talented—anyone who has heard her sing knows that was never a problem—but rather because her initial course took her in a completely different direction. Erivo, then seventeen, started studying music psychology at the University of East London in 2004. It’s an intriguing detail that is simple to ignore. psychology of music. Not theater, not musical theater, not performance. the study of the psychological effects of music. In retrospect, it almost seems as though she already knew something that everyone else…

On Sunday nights, a specific type of anxiety strikes. The impulse to open an app, check a number, and either feel relieved or quietly spiral is more specific than the general, nebulous dread of Mondays. StudentVUE is that app for millions of students in American school districts. A portal that is so ingrained in everyday academic life that checking it has practically become automatic, similar to looking at a weather forecast you’re not sure you want to see. On paper, StudentVUE is an Edupoint-built student information system that is linked to school districts via the Synergy Education Platform. It generates…

Jeffrey Epstein never obtained a degree. Not from Cooper Union, where he spent the late 1960s studying advanced mathematics. Not from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, where he subsequently enrolled in courses on mathematical physiology before discreetly leaving without finishing anything. Nevertheless, by his mid-twenties, he was teaching calculus in front of pupils at one of Manhattan’s most prestigious private schools, chalk in hand. A dropout teaching at the Dalton School, the kind of school where tuition fees alone signify entry into a particular class of New York life, has an almost darkly humorous quality. Epstein was…

You see the same things when you enter practically any low-income pre-primary classroom, whether it’s in rural Mississippi, Karachi, or Nairobi. rooms that are packed. One weary teacher overseeing fifteen pupils. There are no books on the shelves. A cracked chalkboard, perhaps. And kids, who have no idea about any of this, are merely attempting to make sense of their surroundings. It’s difficult to avoid the impression that societies’ priorities in recent years have been fundamentally flawed. Right now, there isn’t much debate about the science. The human brain develops at a rate that will never be matched again during…

The origin story of Benson Boone has an almost disarming quality. Not because it’s particularly unusual, but rather because it’s so stubbornly ordinary—a child in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, competitively diving, playing tennis, and attending class like everyone else—until one afternoon in a high school auditorium, the entire course of his life was subtly altered. Boone was raised in Monroe, Washington, a small city about 35 miles northeast of Seattle where the pace of life hasn’t quite caught up with the urban sprawl that is slowly spreading out from the city and the mountains begin to feel…

In Manhattan, there is a building close to Columbus Circle where students congregate in between classes, carrying laptops, with the intention of going somewhere. It lacks the name recognition of NYU, which is a few miles south, or Columbia, which is a few miles north. However, it deserves a more thorough examination than most people do because of what occurs inside and what is produced. Founded in 1955, the New York Institute of Technology is commonly referred to as NYIT or New York Tech. Alexander Schure founded it using a European polytechnic model, which was pragmatic, career-focused, and based on…

Every parent is familiar with a certain type of frustration. The late cancellation of a school trip. The after-school program that abruptly and silently vanishes. The ten-year-old’s backpack contained the permission slip that, for some reason, never made it home. A small Leicester-based business spent years trying to find a solution to that exact issue, and for a while it actually appeared to be working. With a modest address on Darker Street in Leicester, Teachers2Parents created what many UK schools described as the simplest communication tool they had ever used. Over 10,000 schools in Britain trusted the platform at its…

In one of Mckenna Grace’s interviews, she jokes that she has never gone to a school prom. She’s been actively attempting to persuade her friends who attend regular schools to invite her as a guest, not because she missed out. It’s a minor, nearly insignificant detail. However, it gives you an accurate picture of her childhood, which was inquisitive, unusual, and simultaneously accelerated and unfinished. Born in Grapevine, Texas, in 2006, Grace secured her first commercial job at the age of five. She was sharing scenes with Chris Evans by the age of twelve. There was never much space for…

It doesn’t seem like much when a teacher first sits down with a four-year-old and silently observes how they stack blocks or answer a question about a picture book. There was no exam table, no number two pencils, and no wall clock. However, most parents are unaware of the greater significance of what is happening at that precise moment. One of the most important aspects of early education is preschool assessment, which is the meticulous, continuous process of observing and recording young children’s development. And a lot of people still misinterpret it. It makes sense that people often associate the…