Author: Nola Jones

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…

When discussing Ariana Grande, most people completely ignore one particular detail. The Manchester tribute, the whistle notes, and the consecutive number ones are all mentioned. They rarely discuss the fact that she virtually created one of the most prosperous careers in contemporary music while attending a Florida preparatory school while physically standing on a Broadway stage in New York City. On June 26, 1993, Ariana Grande-Butera was born in Boca Raton, Florida. On the surface, her early years appear to be a fairly typical South Florida childhood, but by the time she was eight years old, she was already performing…

There’s a video somewhere on the internet of Tyler Robinson, fresh out of high school, sitting in front of a camera and reading aloud a merit scholarship offer from Utah State University. He appears pleased. Maybe a little nervous. It’s the kind of video a mother saves forever, the kind that gets replayed at Thanksgiving. Now, it’s difficult to watch it without experiencing an odd weight that falls somewhere between anger and grief. Robinson, now 22, stands charged with the aggravated murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, shot dead on September 10 at Utah Valley University in Orem. The man…

This past spring, there was a noticeable change in American classrooms. Teachers who survived the iPad craze and the obsession with standardized testing in the 2000s began speaking differently. These are the teachers who have seen laptop carts come and go. Not about curriculum changes or lesson plans. concerning artificial intelligence. regarding the viability of the system to which they have dedicated their careers. According to a recent NPR/Ipsos survey of 545 K–12 educators nationwide, almost three out of four think AI will have a greater impact on education than the internet or personal computers ever could. That is an…

The route appeared clear to a generation of teenagers in Britain. After you graduate from college, choose a course, and earn a degree, everything else pretty much falls into place. For years, the unwritten agreement between economic opportunity and higher education has been quietly falling apart. However, the numbers are now making it impossible to ignore for the first time. University admissions departments are probably not in a rush to frame and display the results of the most recent British Social Attitudes survey in their foyers. Just 14% of UK citizens thought a university degree wasn’t worth the time and…

Many people reach a point in their sophomore or junior year of college—weary, possibly broke, possibly doubting everything—where quitting begins to seem like a sensible choice. Just a sensible change of direction, not a failure. Obtain employment, begin earning money, and cease accruing debt. It makes sense. However, the data presents a different picture that is worth considering for a while. A person with a bachelor’s degree typically makes about $1,432 per week, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Someone who went to college but dropped out? About $899. Over the course of a year, that…

The scent of cut grass, someone’s coffee cooling on a bench, and the subtle anxiety of finals week permeate every American college campus in late spring. On the surface, it appears exactly as it always has. However, something has changed beneath it all. At kitchen tables across the nation, parents are whispering the same awkward question: is any of this still worthwhile? There is a reason for the skepticism. According to U.S. News and World Report, private university tuition has increased by 32% in the last 20 years. Additionally, public universities have not been particularly generous to students’ finances. Additionally,…