The college class of 2025 is entering one of the most challenging job markets in years, with the unemployment rate the first three months for recent graduates jumping to 5.8%. One challenge they're facing is artificial intelligence,...

In a scorching talk, marketing professor and podcaster Scott Galloway dissects the data showing that, by many measures, young people in the US are worse off financially than ever before. He unpacks the root causes and effects of this...

Stephanie Land's 2019 memoir, “Maid,” recounted her struggles as a single mother, cleaning houses to earn money and wrestling with the rules of government assistance programs. It was a New York Times bestseller and the basis of a hit...

While studying inequality and social mobility, Richard Reeves made a surprising discovery: in some countries, like the US and UK, boys are drastically lagging behind girls across many academic measures. He explains why these struggles in...

Maine, land of lobsters and lighthouses, is also the nation's oldest state. With a median age of 43, roughly a third of its population is in or approaching retirement. To counter its aging workforce, the state is attempting to attract...

At New Jersey's Rutgers University, a new honors program for undergraduates is redefining academic excellence. Students accepted into the highly competitive Honors Living Learning Community (HLLC) study critical social

issues and...

For many students at LaGuardia Community College in New York, making it from the first day of school to graduation is a struggle. And they're not alone. Part of this national problem? We don't have a good idea of who's going to college,...

Xavier University, a small, historically black college in New Orleans, manages to graduate more African Americans who go on to become medical doctors than any other undergraduate institution in the country -- a fact that's even more...

Free Write Jail Arts and Literacy aims to help troubled youths in Chicago’s Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center address their personal issues by writing poetry about their circumstances and upbringing. Jeffrey Brown talks...

What makes a person successful? For Professor Angela Duckworth, the answer

is grit, an intangible trait that motivates passion and perseverance.
In a
study at West Point, Duckworth found that grit mattered more f
or...

Less than seven percent of people worldwide have a bachelor's degree -- and for many, this is simply because the cost of university is too high, says higher education executive Adrian K. Haugabrook. In this barrier-breaking talk, he...

TED Fellow Nighat Dad studies online harassment, especially as it relates to patriarchal cultures like the one in her small village in Pakistan. She tells the story of how she set up Pakistan's first cyber harassment helpline, offering...

At the online University of the People, anyone with a high school diploma can take classes toward a degree in business administration or computer science — without standard tuition fees (though exams cost money). Founder Shai Reshef...

Once upon a time in America, says professor Sajay Samuel, "going to college did not mean graduating with debt." Today, higher education has become a consumer product -- costs have skyrocketed, saddling students with a combined debt of...

The US economy has been expanding wildly for two centuries. Are we witnessing the end of growth? Economist Robert Gordon lays out 4 reasons US growth may be slowing, detailing factors like epidemic debt and growing inequality, which...

Nandan Nilekani, the visionary co-founder of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can continue its recent breakneck progress.

Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz,...

Want to meet some heroes? You will on Episode 3 of The Hero In You – the all-new series that will inspire, touch your heart, and show you that you can be a Hero too! Hosted by Marysol Castro, The Hero...

Howcast - You need an education to get a better job to support your family, but you need money to get an education. Fortunately, there are many resources available to single mothers.

HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) have the prestigious honor of always being committed to the mission of educating everyone regardless of race, but Evelyn and Hallease both attended a PWI (Predominately White...

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Watch this video to learn how to use the Boclips Alignments tool to browse state and national curricula to which Boclips has aligned videos. Learn more about the Boclips for Classroom web application by watching some or all of the videos...

NOTABLE COLLABORATIONS: Professor Daston talks about how being confronted with two crises of global dimensions: the COVID-19 pandemic and global climate change, led to an international governance structure and collaboration of scientific...

SCIENCE, ONGOING: Professor Barwich talks about how the pandemic has highlighted the need to teach people science as a process as well as the actual concepts of science to increase democratic participation and how the pandemic showed the...