Posts tagged with "education"

Antiques Roadshow

HOW DID A MOSQUITO REVEAL A MASTERPIECE?    ANTIQUES ROADSHOW APPRAISER BRINGS GUEST TO TEARS IN STUNNING SEASON OPENER! Hit PBS Show Delivers Season 22 Surprises With Never-Before-Seen Treasures New season premieres Monday, January 8 at 8/7c PM After more than 20 years searching for America’s hidden treasures, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW finds sensational first-time objects in six cities featured […]

Top Global Teachers × Redesign Curricula 

Employers complain that graduates are not ready for work. Stanford University studies indicate students are overloaded and under-prepared. So exactly what should we teach young people in an age where Dr. Google has an answer for everything; humans are living longer; the traditional professions disappear while new ones are created; international mobility is drastically increasing […]

Statement from Ryan J. Smith, Executive Director of The Education Trust–West, on affirmative action and supporting diversity on college campuses

“Increasing diversity at colleges and universities is part of actualizing the American dream. We should be doing more – not less – to reach students who have been historically and traditionally underserved. This past November marked the twenty year anniversary of California’s passage of Proposition 209 which barred affirmative action in the public sector. Unfortunately, […]