Students from homes or high schools where few others have gone on to college don’t have peers they can turn to for advice when times get tough, explains Carl Strikwerda, president of Elizabethtown College, in Pennsylvania.
Jim Shelton, now heading up the education portfolio at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, isn’t giving any details yet. But in this podcast, he emphasizes the value of bringing learning scientists together with educators to improve learning and increase equality.
Ben Yagoda notices that the ahnt pronunciation, once exclusive to New England (at least, in America), is spreading. Is that because a certain age group wants to sound fancy?
Paid for and Created by UC Davis Building a Better Scientist Often trapped in the silos of their own fields, graduate students of geology, ecology, and hydrology learn one another's languages during a rafting trip in the Grand Canyon.
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