This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Excerpt: I’m the executive director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Very roughly speaking, we’re a group that’s thinking in the long term about artificial intelligence and working to make…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Congressional efforts to legalize unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the United States as children have been pending in Congress since 2001, with the DREAM Act garnering notable bipartisan support…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Here are 10 things immigrant families can find in the district’s resource guide to be safe at school and at home. You have the right to remain silent, even if…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In recent years, there has been increasing concern about the effects of artificial intelligence and robots on humans. Some people have worried that humans will be marginalized to the point…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Public schools have always occupied prime space in the excitable American imagination. For decades, if not centuries, politicians have made hay of their supposed failures and extortions. In 2004, Rod…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Three years ago, I graduated from college, and after years of occasional all-nighters, skipped meals and serious stress over exams, I was looking forward to a new, calmer life. College…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 1997, Beverly Daniel Tatum, one of the country’s foremost authorities on the psychology of racism, answered a recurring question that surfaced in her work with teachers, administrators, and parent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When it comes to personalized learning in the classroom, no single thing has been as powerful as Genius Hour for my students. Genius Hour has its early foundations at companies…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you told me that students as young as first grade can learn to solve complex linear equations—an algebraic concept that generally isn’t taught until the seventh or eighth grade—in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nearly half of all college students in America end up dropping out, an epidemic quit rate that’s poised to cause some serious economic trouble: Most jobs today require some form…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From a road trip across the country to a greenhouse in a bus, the first two years of the Bozeman Youth Giving Project have been quite the journey! In 2015, Foundant partnered…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Proctors Theater is turning a part of the former Carl Companybuilding into the Adeline Graham Theatrical Training and Innovation Center. The vacant space on the third floor of the Schenectady Arts Complex…