“My name is Indu, but my first Aadhaar card made it ‘Hindu’. So I applied for a new card [seeking a correction], but they made … What’s in a name? The agonies of AadhaarRead more
Education
U.S. college scam mastermind get sentenced to 3.5 years
The architect of the largest U.S. college admissions fraud scheme ever uncovered was sentenced on Wednesday to 3-1/2 years in prison for helping wealthy parents … U.S. college scam mastermind get sentenced to 3.5 yearsRead more
UK pupils taught about alcohol with ‘misleading’ industry-funded resources
Schools are using “misleading and biased” information materials funded by the alcohol industry to educate pupils as young as nine about drinking, according to a … UK pupils taught about alcohol with ‘misleading’ industry-funded resourcesRead more
Regime changers in western academia
Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, Aaron Maté Meet the radlib academics using woke post-modernism to defend imperialism
FEATURE-Indian children without Aadhaar digital ID shut out of school
Nine-year-old Rakhi and her two siblings should be in school, but instead they spend afternoons watching cartoons on their father’s phone at home in the … FEATURE-Indian children without Aadhaar digital ID shut out of schoolRead more
We cant resist if we don’t understand
https://archive.org/download/20230803/20230803.m4a Chris Hedges — source mintpressnews.com | Dec 27, 2021
Taking Back Our Universities From Corporate Apparatchiks
Here are some of the senior administrators I did not see joining us on the picket lines set up by striking teachers and staff at … Taking Back Our Universities From Corporate ApparatchiksRead more
Hunter-gatherer childhoods may offer clues to improving education and wellbeing
Hunter-gatherers can help us understand the conditions that children may be psychologically adapted to because we lived as hunter-gatherers for 95% of our evolutionary history. … Hunter-gatherer childhoods may offer clues to improving education and wellbeingRead more
Teacher equity and maths identity
Who can do well in math? How you answer that question may depend on where you live. Whereas people in East Asian countries tend to … Teacher equity and maths identityRead more
Amy Wax and Academic Freedom
The New York Times recently ran a long story on Amy Wax, a law professor at University of Pennsylvania. Wax, who is a religious Jew, … Amy Wax and Academic FreedomRead more