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MOOCs have been hailed as a game changer in higher education. But Scott Garrigan is interested in their potential for K-12 education.
The jury is out as to whether MOOCs – (massive open online courses ) being offered by an increasing number of colleges and universities are an effective means of learning. But Scott Garrigan, Lehigh... Read more »
Jamie Amelio presented to a full house at the Linderman Rotunda on October 18 to share her new book "Graced with Orange."
Jamie C. Amelio is the founder and CEO of Caring for Cambodia, a non-profit organization directed toward educating children and training teachers in Siem Reap, Cambodia. While vacationing in Cambodia in 2003, Texas-... Read more »
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem “Concord Hymn” commemorated “the shot heard ‘round the world" in the clash between local militiamen and British troops that marked the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775.
But 70 years later, in nearby Boston, another shot was fired—figuratively speaking this time—that launched the war over standardized ... Read more »
Written by Elizabeth Shimer Bowers | Illustrated by Edel Rodriguez
At the request of Theory to Practice, alumnus Peter Langman—a sought-after expert on the psychology of young people who commit rampage school shootings—recently sat... Read more »
Written By Eric Metcalf | Illustrations By Henrik Drescher
The educators lean forward in their chairs and tilt their heads to ponder the situation from a new perspective. They furrow their brows, contemplating how they will answer the question hanging over the room.
The question that the... Read more »