Author: Nola Jones

Rows of desks, glowing screens, and a whiteboard with goals that must be completed before the bell rings are all familiar sights in the majority of American elementary schools. Enter a Waldorf classroom now. The light is the first thing you notice. Next are the wooden toys made by hand in the corner. Then the child was sitting quietly, totally engrossed in kneading beeswax into a tiny figure. Standing there, it’s difficult not to sense that something radically different is taking place. In Stuttgart, Germany, in 1919, a cigarette factory owner named Emil Molt asked philosopher Rudolf Steiner to create…

This story has a bad version. At the age of twelve, a young girl gets cast in a huge Netflix series, skips school, becomes entangled in brand deals and red carpet events, and somewhere along the line, education subtly fades from the picture. In Hollywood, that kind of plot is fairly typical. Millie Bobby Brown never quite allowed that to happen, which is what sets her path apart. Born in Marbella, Spain, in 2004, Brown moved around a lot as a child, first to England and then to Florida. A traditional school schedule was practically unfeasible by the time Stranger…

Some schools you forget as soon as you leave, while others seem to follow you—those that come up at dinner parties, reunions, and in the middle of non-educational conversations. St. Benedict Childhood Education Center, which practically everyone just refers to as “St. Ben,” is precisely that kind of place for a sizable portion of Cebu City’s professional class. The school, which is situated in Cebu City along F. Cabahug Street, doesn’t make a big announcement. It is close to the everyday cacophony of the city and sits in the rhythm of a busy urban street. However, it is difficult to…

Apple has never engaged in price competition. There is an implicit understanding that you are paying for software integration, quality, design, and a certain level of ecosystem loyalty when you walk into any Apple Store. However, there is a less well-known area of Apple’s retail business that deviates from this trend, and more educators and students ought to be aware of it. Teachers, school employees, college parents, and university students can all access the Apple Education Store, which functions as a distinct online store. It provides year-round discounts that are significant for someone purchasing a $1,500 laptop, even though they…

The majority of educators recall a certain moment. An unsuccessful classroom. A digital tool that delivered confusion while promising everything. A semester in which technology was more of a hindrance than an asset. Those experiences felt dispersed for a long time, like anecdotal annoyances without a true intellectual home. Subsequently, a publication emerged that began to connect those strands in a meaningful way. For the better part of two decades, the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education has been doing something deceptively straightforward: providing serious researchers with a serious forum to ask serious questions about the intersections of…

Block E8, a government building that most Malaysians will never enter but whose decisions affect nearly every family in the nation, is located on the outskirts of Putrajaya, Malaysia’s administrative capital, a city that still feels half-planned and half-arrived. The Ministry of Education, locally referred to as Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia, or just KPM, has its headquarters here. By most accounts, it is among Southeast Asia’s biggest and most intricate institutions. It is not hyperbole to say that the Ministry operates more like a small business than a government agency, given that it employed close to 588,000 people as of 2022.…

When it comes to choosing their subjects, Secondary Three students in Singapore experience a certain kind of anxiety. It feels a bit louder in the hallways. At dinner, parents ask more questions. Brochures are distributed by teachers. A government-built website is also waiting somewhere in the background; it is mostly unused, occasionally found, and occasionally transformative. MySkillsFuture for Students is that website, and it should receive more attention than it usually does. The portal was designed as a one-stop shop where students from elementary school through pre-university can map out their educational paths, discover their own strengths, and investigate careers.…

Jackie Chan has made a name for himself by doing things that most people would think are impossible. hanging from buses in motion. sliding along the building’s sides. Taking hits that would send anyone else to the hospital, then getting back up to perform another take. The Hong Kong martial arts legend is still active at 72, but the scene will be much more subdued next week. By all accounts, Chan’s visit to Pei Chun Public School in Singapore on July 7 will be the most unusual and unforgettable school day those students have ever experienced. The announcement was made…

A student standing in line at an airport, a little nervous, with a laptop bag slung over one shoulder, and hoping that the seat they can barely afford will get them where they need to go has a subtle practicality. The expense of air travel is a real barrier for millions of students who travel abroad every year. This is why, upon closer inspection, the Turkish Airlines student discount seems like something worth learning about. Turkish Airlines has positioned itself as one of the few large airlines with a well-defined, easily accessible student discount program—not a hazy “check our deals”…

Haliç University lacks the long history of Istanbul’s most renowned establishments. It was established in 1998, which is relatively new for a university, and its beginnings are peculiar enough to make anyone think twice. The Foundation for Children with Leukemia, which is not the type of founding organization you would expect behind a full-fledged university with engineering departments and a medical faculty, founded the institution. Haliç is not diminished by her past. If anything, it gives the establishment a purpose that some more established, bureaucratic establishments appear to have lost over time. Mecidiyeköy, Şişhane, Şişli Bomonti, Fulya, and Okmeydanı are…