Education

The Lost Neighborhood Buried Under New York City’s Central Park

New York City is in a constant state of flux. For every Nets fan cheering their team on in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and every tourist gamboling about the post-punk, upscale East Village, there are dozens of local residents who remember what—and who—was displaced to pave the way for this progress. It’s no great leap to assume that something had to be plowed under to make way for the city’s myriad gleaming skyscrapers, but harder to conceive of Central Park, the 840-acre oasis in the mid...
Tags: Travel, Google, Europe, New York, College, Life, New York City, History, Architecture, Brooklyn, New York Times, Manhattan, Central Park, Great Britain, Public Domain, Alexander

Wintertime Garden Inspiration

January often heralds the official arrival of the winter doldrums. Gail, Joe, Fred, and I are here to offer a cure – inspiration for your gardening plans this year. Last year, we started our series of formal classes on the basics of gardening called Foundations in Gardening. Each class sold out and we had lively discussions with attendees. We are bringing back this series with new beginner-oriented classes on Saturdays in February. Gail teaching in our series last winter Gail Read, ...
Tags: Gardening, Winter, Education, Wildlife, Gardens, Melanie, Gail, Native Plants, Fred Perry, Rhododendron, Small Gardens, Blithewold, Gail Read, Joe Verstandig, Natives, Shade Gardens

Monty Python’s Terry Jones (RIP) Was a Comedian, But Also a Medieval Historian: Get to Know His Other Side

Monty Python’s surreal, slapstick parodies of history, religion, medicine, philosophy, and law depended on a competent grasp of these subjects, and most of the troupe’s members, four of whom met at Oxford and Cambridge, went on to demonstrate their scholarly acumen outside of comedy, with books, guest lectures, professorships, and serious television shows. Michael Palin even became president of the Royal Geographical Society for a few years. And Palin’s onetime Oxford pal and early writi...
Tags: Google, Python, Comedy, Television, Youtube, College, History, Bbc, Rome, Oxford, Cambridge, Monty Python, Brian, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Jones

The College Girl’s Guide to Affordable Lingerie

Look cute from head to toe!
Tags: Shopping, College, Underwear, Bras, Lingerie, Bodysuits, Bralette

Coupons & Sales: 50% off at Revolve, 70% off at Mango, 70% off Topshop, & More

Here's where to save on beauty and fashion this weekend.
Tags: Deals, Topshop, Shopping, College, Mango

Top 5 Gossip Girl-Approved Items That Are Still Trendy in 2020

Here's what Blair and Serena would be wearing this year.
Tags: TV, College, Inspiration, Tights, Gossip Girl, Serena, Headbands, Blair, Pearls, TV fashion, Bright Colors, Gossip Girl Fashion

Neil deGrasse Tyson: How science literacy can save us from the internet

The internet has become a tool to tribalize us, a place where opinions become identities in a fight to the death of who's right and who's wrong.As information continues to flow in, many of us lack the training to effectively sort opinion from fact. This leads to widespread disinformation.We need science literacy. With an understanding of how things work, or how to question how things work, we empower ourselves to discover the truth. Letters from an Astrophysicist ...
Tags: Science, News, Media, Learning, Education, Internet, Journalism, Intelligence, Innovation, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Speech, Personal Growth, Decision-making

Lesufi suspends Parktown Boys’ principal after student’s death

Malcolm Williams has been suspended following the death of grade 8 learner Enoch Mpianzi
Tags: Education, Article, Gauteng Department of Education, Panyaza Lesufi, Malcolm Williams, Lesufi, South Africa (country, Enoch Mpianzi, Parktown Boys' High School, Brits (North West, Nyati Bush and Riverbreak, Parktown Boys

Sylmar High becomes Olympic venue, thanks to LAUSD’s Young Athletes program

The football field at Sylmar high school was transformed into an Olympic venue on Friday, Jan. 24, as the Los Angeles Unified Young Athletes in partnership with Special Olympics Southern California held its Special Olympics Festival for Preschool Students in LAUSD. King Edwards from Valerio Elementary school is all smiles as he participates in the parachute activity at the Special Olympics Festival for Preschool Students at Sylmar high school Friday, January 24, 2020. The Young Athletes eve...
Tags: Education, California, Sport, Soccer, Lausd, Local News, Edwards, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles Daily News, David Crane, Sylmar, Newsom, Special Olympics, Top Stories LADN, Los Angeles Daily News SCNG, Sylmar High

How Time-Travel Works in Fiction: A Concise Breakdown of How Time Travel Functions in Popular Movies, Books & TV Shows

As least since H.G. Wells' 1895 novel The Time Machine, time travel has been a promising storytelling concept. Alas, it has seldom delivered on that promise: whether their characters jump forward into the future, backward into the past, or both, the past 125 years of time-travel stories have too often suffered from inelegance, inconsistency, and implausibility. Well, of course they're implausible, everyone but Ronald Mallett might say — they're stories about time travel. But fiction only...
Tags: Google, Film, College, Literature, Stephen Hawking, Harry Potter, Sci Fi, Charles Darwin, Seoul, Rian Johnson, Time Machine, Reich, Facebook Twitter, Ender, Looper, Bill Ted

MA PROGRAMME PUPPETRY IN FOUR CENTRAL EUROPEAN ACADEMIES

Study your Master in puppetry at Central European universities in Budapest, Bratislava, Prague, Białystok! The PuppeTry focuses on different artistic and teaching methods of the participating academies. The programme supports students to find their own artistic approach and become versatile artist with international experience. The online application is open till January 31st, 2020. Entrance exams will take place in February 2020, interviews with selected applicants will be hold vi...
Tags: Art, Education, Budapest Bratislava Prague Białystok, Skype Applicants

Cheating term-paper-for-pay businesses recruited customers through subsidized on-campus parties

Companies like Edubirdie offer platforms for academic cheating, connecting freelance essay-writers with desperate students who pay hundreds of dollars to have their academic papers ghostwritten for them. Edubirdie has recruited customers with on-campus "epic parties" which offered organizers $250, along with branded cups and a standee with the company's mascot, in exchange for posting five or more photos of students posed with the standee and hashtagged with #EduBirdieParty. The organizer whose...
Tags: Post, Business, News, Education, Cheating, Cnbc, Buzz Marketing, Academic Fraud, Edubirdie, Ed Surge, Jeffrey R Young Ed Surge

‘Guided by educators and parents rather than lawyers,’ LAUSD moves forward

Editor’s note: This is an abridged version of a story produced by LA School Report. The complete story is available at laschoolreport.com. By Taylor Swaak, LA School Report This month marks a notable milestone for L.A. Unified: For the first time in more than two decades, it’s now in full control of its special education system. Until this month, the nation’s second-largest school district had unique court-ordered mandates to improve and expand services for its nearly 62,000 special education st...
Tags: News, Education, California, Sport, Soccer, Lausd, Local News, Los Angeles Times, Unified, Gavin Newsom, Scott Schmerelson, Schmerelson, Austin Beutner, LA school, California Department of Education, Beutner

Dutch schoolchildren make video appeal amid teacher shortage

Amsterdam primary among many schools in Netherlands suffering from a lack of staffParents of children at a primary school in the Netherlands have responded to a national teacher shortage by making a short video of their offspring asking for candidates to come forward and help make their dreams come true.In the film the children talk about their plans to be a caretaker, pilot, plumber, acrobat or director when they get older. “But that is not possible without a good teacher,” the parents write on...
Tags: Europe, Education, World news, Teaching, Netherlands, Amsterdam