Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of learning, work and human development. Citizenship education—it’s the most important work of schools ...
Micah Castelo is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K-12. Her experience includes education and community news coverage for the Syracuse Post-Standard and international news reporting for the Pulitzer ...
What happens when over 100 passionate educators converge in Chicago to celebrate two decades of educational innovation? A few weeks ago, I had the thrilling opportunity to immerse myself in the 20th ...
When the pandemic prompted schools to quickly shift to distance learning last spring, educators became responsible for using online technologies to teach students. This was the first time that many ...
A poster showing Montpelier High School’s learning expectations is visible around the building. Students are assessed on habits of learning, citizenship and five other “transferable skills” under the ...
Amid long-standing national angst over the amount of knowledge that American public school students have of civics, one organization’s push to make the test administered to prospective U.S. citizens a ...
First, very few of the students I met, of any age, could pass the new citizenship test. Second, very few of the schools I visited would even administer it. The requirement to commit dates, names and ...
The American actor Richard Gere is one among several witnesses scheduled to testify at the high-profile trial of the Italian politician Matteo Salvini, Italy’s former interior minister. Salvini is ...
East Tennessee State University (ETSU) hosted a naturalization ceremony on Tuesday, where nearly 125 individuals became ...