Category Archives: Education

School! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!

January 9, 2013 – 2:28 pm

by Cree McCree WHAT’S HAPPENING Steve Jobs. Bill Gates. Michael Dell. Mark Zuckerberg. College dropouts and zillionaires all. Why pay crazy money for school when you could be making crazy money instead? More Millennials are asking that question and just saying no to college (New York Times, 30 November 2012). Skyrocketing tuition and explosive student […]

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From lyricist to physicist: New York City schools incorporate hip-hop into science classes

December 18, 2012 – 1:25 pm

by Lisa Parks WHAT’S HAPPENING Music has often been used to teach complicated ideas. Columbia University professor Christopher Emdin is finding that rap can help high school students rhyme their way into scientific literacy. Emdin, Wu-Tang Clan hip-hop artist GZA and the founders of the lyrics website Rap Genius are launching a program in 10 […]

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Digital Hopscotch connects learning and motion

December 18, 2012 – 1:19 pm

by Eric Braun WHAT’S HAPPENING It’s no longer just a sidewalk game: Hopscotch, developed by the German-based Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, lets kids hop, skip and jump while learning math, language and other ordinarily static subjects (Good.is, 28 November 2012). A sensor mat includes squares numbered like the well-known sidewalk version as well as […]

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Indian schools put hand washing on the daily schedule

December 11, 2012 – 2:42 pm

by Rasika Batra WHAT’S HAPPENING Instead of washing its hands of absenteeism and illness, the Ministry of Human Resource Development has found a unique solution. It has instructed all schools that serve midday meals to include in the timetable the washing of hands with soap. The egalitarian WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) in School programme includes […]

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“App gap” is the new face of the digital divide

April 10, 2012 – 12:03 pm

by Jana Branch WHAT’S HAPPENING iPads are the hot portal for kid-size edutainment, with an array of apps that build skills while engaging young minds. And with that bridge comes a new divide. Research by Common Sense Media points out that a new “app gap” is emerging between affluent and low-income kids. According to Zero […]

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THE ABC’S OF ENGLISH EDUCATION

March 13, 2012 – 10:06 am

by Sumaa Tekur English is in demand in India. Parents are increasingly enrolling their children in English-language schools. At last count, more than 20 million kids are studying in such schools across the country, with a 274% increase in enrollment since 2003, according to the National University of Education, Planning and Administration (TimesOfIndia.com, 2 March […]

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What did the 1% study in college?

February 14, 2012 – 3:26 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis WHAT’S HAPPENING Iconoculture has been doing our best to help fill out a meaningful and informative portrait of “the 1%” to improve understanding of the top income-earners in the US. Who are they, where do they live, what did they do to become our wealthy and privileged overlords? A January 2012 analysis […]

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College dorms are fast becoming a singles scene

January 31, 2012 – 1:53 pm

by Cree McCree WHAT’S HAPPENING Bunking with a roommate, for better or for worse, used to be a college rite of passage. These days, more students are seeking haven in private rooms. As of 2004, half of all US schools were including singles in new construction (The Record, 7 December 2011). One-third of the rooms […]

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Tamil Nadu makes chess compulsory in schools

January 24, 2012 – 3:52 pm

by Kiran Manral WHAT’S HAPPENING Tamil Nadu will be the second state in India to make chess a compulsory subject for all government and aided schools. Gujarat was the first state in India to require that students learn chess. This is a bid to improve the cognitive skills of the students, especially those from “educationally backward” districts (Times […]

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Fear of student loan debt can keep black and Latino students from graduation

January 4, 2012 – 3:43 pm

by Amber Davis WHAT’S HAPPENING Afraid of the long-term effects of loan debt, some students are going to lengths to avoid taking out any loans at all — even putting their ability to graduate at risk. A study by Excelencia in Education and The Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) found Latinos and Asian Americans […]

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Chalta Firta School on wheels gives slum kids in Delhi a chance to study

October 25, 2011 – 4:21 pm

by Aditi Krishnan WHAT’S HAPPENING Kids don’t go to this school. The school comes to them. It’s a school on wheels. Young dropouts from slums in Delhi are being coerced by NGO Butterflies and the government’s Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, to not give up on learning. The big yellow bus school appropriately named ‘Chalta Firta School’ […]

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“B” is for cash: Parents pay for college only if the grades are good

September 21, 2011 – 8:36 am

by Hans Eisenbeis WHAT’S HAPPENING Results! That’s what US parents want from their collegians, and if they don’t make good grades, they could lose their funding. According to a 2011 survey by Fidelity Investments, two-thirds of parents say that they will help pay for college only if their student gets grades of B or higher […]

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Bookstore wants to boost Mexico’s literacy via billboard story

September 6, 2011 – 1:57 pm

by Elizabeth Helsley WHAT’S HAPPENING Librerias Gandhi, one of Mexico’s leading book retailers, has taken guerilla marketing to a new level with its Metrolibro campaign. The campaign consists of 13 billboards set up along Mexico City metro’s yellow line — one for each station. Each billboard contains passages from Franz Kafka’s “El Puente” (The Bridge). […]

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New York library grants amnesty to overdue readers

August 23, 2011 – 12:49 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis WHAT’S HAPPENING In July 2011, the New York Public Library offered amnesty to more than 140,000 children and young adults who have overdue books. If delinquent readers participate in the library’s summer reading program, they can erase overdue fines — which are typically $15 per overdue book (Consumerist.com, 25 July 2011). For […]

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Swedish pre-school goes gender-neutral

July 26, 2011 – 1:05 pm

by Bosco Chiclana WHAT’S HAPPENING Egalia, a pre-school in a well-to-do district of Stockholm is attempting to free children from social expectations based on gender (bbc.co.uk 8 July 2011). Teachers avoid using the pronouns “him” and “her”, and dolls and trucks are placed deliberately side-by-side to encourage children to play with whatever they choose. Gender […]

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