Cathy Davidson

How Do We Measure What Really Counts In The Classroom?

A new generation of assessment tools are hoping to piggyback off the wealth of online rating software to find a better and more efficient method of assessing students.

How Do We Measure What Really Counts In The Classroom?

A Core Curriculum To Create Engaged Entrepreneurs

It’s time to transform the focus, mission, and rhetoric of liberal arts and combine its focus on cross-disciplinary critical thinking with real world experience. Here’s one proposal.

A Core Curriculum To Create Engaged Entrepreneurs

Can We Replace Professors With Computer Screens?

Quite possibly, but an education just from YouTube videos would miss the true point of a college education.

Can We Replace Professors With Computer Screens?

Going From One-Size-Fits-All Education, To One-Size-Fits-One

We need to teach children individually, and in a way that doesn’t emphasize memorizing the right answer, but more realistically reflects how we learn and succeed in the real world.

Going From One-Size-Fits-All Education, To One-Size-Fits-One

Why Flip The Classroom When We Can Make It Do Cartwheels?

Adding some technology to the educational process is one thing, but truly revolutionary learning experiences take a deeper sort of innovation, which you can see at a program at Duke working for change in Haiti.

Why Flip The Classroom When We Can Make It Do Cartwheels?

Reinventing College To Prepare Us For The Future, Not The Past

College was designed to prepare students for a 20th-century economy, and it’s not catching up fast enough to the realities of the modern world. How can we overhaul the entire system?

Reinventing College To Prepare Us For The Future, Not The Past

Ideas

As natural disasters get worse, we are going to need more resilient hospitals

Could a giant underwater wall help save glaciers from collapse?

Want to change the world? Here are five steps to take

Entertainment

This Senate candidate’s new ad imagines if ICE took his mom away

Brand WTF of the week: Brushbox somehow made a toothbrush sexist

Sam Bee breaks down the ethics of rape, Dr. Seuss-style, so everyone can understand

Co.Design

See the ghostly remains of a failed techno-utopia

Ostrichpillow, the bizarre viral napping pod, now comes in a less dorky design

A 200-year-old guide to color, redesigned for the internet age

Fast Company

Mr. Rogers’s Google Doodle is the neighborly animation we need right now

Amazon Go is an “existential threat” to millions of jobs, supermarket workers warn

Layoffs loom at Under Armor as 400 workers face job cuts