Trump and the Death of Shared Morality in America
In this installment of The Conversation, David Brooks says goodbye to The Times, and offers his parting thoughts.
Education
Coroner says school record gaps pose risk to lives
After the death of Georgia Scarff, a coroner says safeguarding record-keeping should be standardised.
NUS urges ‘loan shark’ Reeves to reverse changes to student debt repayment
Policy announced in autumn budget freezes threshold at which students start repaying university loans
Protesters dressed as sharks and in Rachel Reeves face masks gathered outside the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday to express their anger over changes to their student loans and their ballooning debt.
The demonstration by members of the National Union of Students (NUS) characterised the...
Child dies after ‘medical emergency’ at school
A letter to parents from Collingwood College says a Year 8 child died in an incident on Monday.
Smaller Classes: Mamdani Does the Math
The mayor would need $700 million for teachers to reduce class sizes in line with a state mandate.
No, China’s Universities Are Not Better Than America’s
They churn out research papers at a rapid pace, but the quality of these publications has too often been in question.
New plan to fix ‘ageing and fragile’ schools exposed by Raac crisis
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says the government’s 10-year strategy is a “turning point” for schools.
English secondary schools must offer inclusion areas for neurodiverse and Send pupils
Special spaces are a key part of government’s planned overhaul of special educational needs support
Secondary schools in England must provide specially designed areas for neurodiverse children and pupils with special educational needs, ministers have said.
Universal “inclusion bases” are spaces away from classrooms where children with additional needs can get support for some lessons. They...
School phone policies in England a ‘huge drain’ on staff resources – study
Teachers and admin teams spend 100 hours a week enforcing rules, Birmingham University research finds
Smartphone policies in English secondary schools are a “huge drain” on resources, with staff spending on average more than 100 hours a week enforcing restrictions, according to research.
Teachers, teaching assistants, caretakers and receptionists are involved with helping to police pupils’...
Gabor Boritt, Refugee Who Became Expert on Lincoln, Dies at 86
He survived the Holocaust and Communist rule in Hungary, arrived penniless in New York and made himself into a pre-eminent Civil War scholar.
Epstein’s Cash and Influence Helped Women Attend Columbia and N.Y.U.
Federal records show that Jeffrey Epstein used donations and connections as he sought to gain college admission for young women in his orbit.
‘So shameful’: backlash as US national monuments conform to Trump’s rewrite of history
From Pennsylvania to Montana, the White House’s war on ‘woke’ has targeted US monuments that address topics like racism and Indigenous history
Blank spaces now exist where a series of panels about enslavement once appeared on the walls of the President’s House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The site, which honors the home of George Washington and John Adams, is a major landmark that bore...
Immigration Judge Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Cannot be Deported
The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, who is from Turkey, was detained by immigration agents last year after she co-wrote a pro-Palestinian opinion article for her student newspaper.
Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdown
Local police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers, data show
Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by the 74 reveals.
Hundreds of thousands of audit logs spanning a month show police are...
Teachers striking again over behaviour concerns
Members of staff at Tewkesbury Academy could strike for nine more days.
Starting at Harvard and Falling for Your First Tree
A freshman seminar encourages students to behave differently in the world and feel more passionately about biodiversity.
Rethinking Economics, the movement changing how the subject is taught
Born of student disquiet after the 2008 crash, the group says it reshaping economists’ education
As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a group of students at Harvard University in the US walked out of their introductory economics class complaining it was teaching a “specific and limited view” that perpetuated “a problematic and inefficient...
Spanish is clearly now the world’s coolest language. So why do we push British children to learn French? | Gary Nunn
As Bad Bunny showed at the Super Bowl, español is the coming thing. No wonder it’s now the top GCSE language choice
“Now, Gary, repeat after me: Quiero una margarita, por favor,” my Spanish tutor instructs. I cringe at the butchered Spanglish my estuary accent produces. Like Del Boy Trotter ordering a cocktail: “Key – yeah – row oon margari’a, pour far four.”
It’s 2023, I’m 41, living in...
Number of home-schooled children attending ‘social’ learning sessions rises
Deb Hadden runs drop-off sessions, where children can play and learn with each other.
How these schools are improving behaviour and attendance
The government says schools needing “intensive support” will receive “one-to-one sessions”.
‘I saw the writing on the wall’: Austria offers safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universities
Other countries benefit from the Trump brain drain as administration wages war on academia and research
Wali Malik no longer has to worry that a rightwing bureaucrat – or influencer – will decide his research is “woke”.
He doesn’t have to fear government retaliation for speaking his mind or following the science wherever it may lead. And like others who have left a polarized United States for...