On a Thursday evening, I walked to Makerere University to learn the basics of the Russian language. The tutor, Olga Andreevna ...
The current boom in AI technology has ridden on a wave known as ‘deep learning’, which is an approach to creating intelligent ...
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Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?
Georgia education officials are studying Mississippi’s dramatic literacy transformation as 70$ of the Peach State’s ...
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The folks at the Humboldt Literacy Project estimate that some 14,000 of our neighbors in Humboldt are functionally illiterate. That means they would struggle to fill out a form or understand ...
CHRISTMAS is a time of light, joy and goodwill – until the board games come out. The skitter of dice along a table, the ...
Nearly half of Alberta’s Grade 6 students failed the provincewide math test in 2024, three years after the province started ...
Opinion

Rising above the din

When ‘Babu’ and ‘Da’ become national issues, the voice of a 22-year-old Aurobindo Ghosh from Baroda can still be heard above the political din in contemporary India. Writing a series of essays in 1893 ...
Retried EKU professor Jacqueline Jane Hamilton launched a non-profit call Why We Write, and helped compile the poems for 'A ...