Since at least 213 BCE, book burnings have been a reaction to the power of the written word. When roasting paper in a giant circle went out of style (at least in the intellectual sphere), the governments would take it upon itself to ban...

Amanda Jones, author of That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America, shares her story as a small-town school librarian in Louisiana who has faced harassment and threats since speaking out against censorship at a library...

How does Emergent Leadership in groups work? What makes some people emerge as and become leaders while others do not? Here's a list of Dos and Don'ts to increase your chances.

Niall Ferguson is a Professor of History at Harvard University, and a speaker at INET's Conference at Bretton Woods on April 10, 2011<br/>

James and the Giant Peach is a classic fantasy and adventure story that explores friendship, family relationships, and the fortunes of a young orphan. James is living with his cruel aunts when a peach magically sprouts in the yard. When...

The crossover dribble is a basketball move. But to some people it’s more than just a move, it is poetry. The Crossover is a Newbery-Award-winning basketball novel by author Kwame Alexander. Students can relate in many ways to the themes...

In this video, the teacher explains how to graph ratios on a coordinate plane by setting up a table. They discuss the additive and multiplicative reasoning patterns in ratios and highlight common mistakes to avoid while graphing.

Today we're going to discuss how machine learning can be used to group and label information even if those labels don't exist. We'll explore two types of clustering used in Unsupervised Machine Learning: k-means and Hierarchical...

Dr. Thomas McMorran, Superintendent, formerly Assistant Superintendent and Joel Barlow High School Principal, he was also awarded the Connecticut Principal of the Year Award.



"The staff lovingly refers to Mr. McMorran as...

Dr. Thomas McMorran, Assistant Superintendent and Joel Barlow High School Principal, was recently awarded the Connecticut Principal of the Year Award.



"The staff lovingly refers to Mr. McMorran as Mr. Metaphor as he...

Scary, shape-changing creatures are universal elements in folktales around the world. In this audio story, author Tracey Baptiste meets with a group of students to discuss her book, The Jumbies, a story based on frightening creatures who...

There aren't many books I recommend unreservedly to professional and business people I work with. But the Wisdom of Crowds is one of them.

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Conflict between Islamic, Hindu, Christian, and scientific traditions, and how antagonism shapes cultural and political debate – fueling Islamophobia and other discrimination – form the basis of Peter Gottschalk’s work.  As well as...

Conflict between Islamic, Hindu, Christian, and scientific traditions, and how antagonism shapes cultural and political debate – fueling Islamophobia and other discrimination – form the basis of Peter Gottschalk’s work.  As well as...

Elizabeth Watts Bromery, an English Professor at Broward County Public Schools, Florida, became an educator in 1990 as her parents raised her to equate education with social justice. She chose teaching to empower students to make...

Robin Ince hosts a group of school children. He discusses and recreates the world's smelliest plant in aid of the Science & Stuff book.

This fun, comic book-style animation showcases that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways. Learners will explore the...

Recently, U.S. Cyber Command confirmed it has acted against ransomware groups, underscoring the importance of cybersecurity to national security. Effective risk management frameworks, such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, can help...

This video is about a group of individuals who created basketball-playing robots inspired by the popular manga series "Slam Dunk." They hold the record for most consecutive basketball free throws by a humanoid robot (assisted). They...

Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The author of fourteen books and scores of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations....

The programme comprises ten short sequences shot during a Saturday cricket match, each with a different aspect of mathematics for pupils to explore, investigate and discuss. Cricket is a game heavily dependent on maths. How fast is that...

This program covers the very important topic of ionic compounds with polyatomic ions. We discuss the concept of a polyatomic ion as simply the grouping of atoms that has a net charge associated with it. We then discuss how these...

In this video I cover a summary of the book How to become a straight A student. Many students don't think of true optimal ways of how to get better grades. This book focused more on unique ways to study in order to...

Emergent leadership describes the way some professionals get noticed and rise up. Research on groups and teams shows specific make-or-break behaviors position some individuals and eliminate others. This research is originally from the...