I'm especially interested in the opinions of long term educators who worked with students before this change. I can compare to my own experience in school and make inferences, but my observations are not that in depth yet. Very curious what changes you've noticed.
Hello. I'm 14 y.o. and in 9th grade. I performed well at all subjects in middle school but i started flopping after starting high school. From 90+ in maths to 50, from 95+ in science to 37 in chemistry and so on. Only actually close to perfects subject I have now are English and German. I want to study to improve my grades but I just can't for the love of god. I start studying, get a few questions in and then it becomes boring as hell. I feel like something's burning inside of me, i keep getting more questions wrong until i ultimately just quit. How can i make this not feel like torture?
It shouldn't just be about students who bear the greatest responsibility for their academic failure but profs too because of their teaching methods and time management
Is there any study on whether schools have actual benefits? My little one is 2.5 and I’m having a tough time making my peace with the fact that she has to go to a school for 5 hours (I’ve been lucky to work from home and I’m quiet tired but wouldn’t trade my time with her for anything). I’m genuinely considering quitting my job and homeschooling her but she did enjoy some music classes and some summer camps so I’m not sure. How to decide?
Community Based Instruction (CBI) is a powerful educational method that helps students with disabilities gain real-life skills in community environments. Rather than learning only inside classrooms, students practice tasks like shopping, using public transport, or visiting the library. These activities help students become more independent, confident, and socially aware.
I support Academic Freedom. If the most educated in our society can't examine, test, and evaluate every aspect of human thought and endeavor then we may miss things crucial for the survival of humanity.
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...Harvard is changing course, perhaps because it grasped the true takeaway from Columbia’s cautionary tale: Appeasement doesn’t work, because the Trump administration isn’t really trying to reform elite higher education. It’s trying to break it.
The administration’s allies have not been shy about that fact. “To scare universities straight,” Max Eden, then a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote in December, Education Secretary Linda McMahon “should start by taking a prize scalp. She should simply destroy Columbia University.” She should do this, he argued, whether or not the school cooperated with any civil-rights investigation.
...by continuing to punish Columbia even after the school gave in to its demands, the administration also appears to have overplayed its hand. If cooperation and even capitulation don’t get you anywhere, why should other universities give in?
