As I wrote recently, soft skills, such as ethical behavior and personal integrity, are important in work and life. One simple item, often ignored by educators (including digital educators), is the ...

In recent years, Purdue University has developed ways to institutionalize student well-being, and this work exemplifies important aspects of a community approach on campus. These aspects include ...

Colleges can’t agree on how to define “first generation” students. And maybe that’s OK, according to a team of researchers. But institutions must be aware of even small differences in backgrounds — ...

I was a kid who thrived on the positive reinforcement of being an “A” student; to this day, I can count on my hands the number of “bad grades” I received during my K-12 education. There was the “D” on ...

It’s a well-worn adage in education that students first learn to read, and then read to learn. At some point, usually around 3rd grade, school systems assume that children have the basics down. They ...

Leo Gerdén ’25 is an Economics and Government concentrator in Mather House and an international student from Sweden. The most dangerous response to authoritarianism is self-silencing. I refuse to ...

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