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Advocates for Asian Massage Workers Decry 'Sexist, Racist' Raids in Seattle

In a Seattle suburb, police recently raided five massage businesses suspected of prostitution—and ended up inviting some serious accusations against themselves. The raids took place in Bothell and were conducted by the…

End of Semester Reads

Last Friday, I walked into Hodges Figgis while awaiting my interviewee’s responses for this article and came across a table of books labelled “Succinct Stories”. It would seem that the Hodges Figgis managers and…

As Korea cracks down on English kindergartens, Seoul districts open their own for free

Last week, Byun Jae-i, a 5-year-old at Donghwa Kindergarten in southern Seoul's Seocho District, learned that kangaroos come from Australia and pandas from China. The twist is she learned it all in English, a language…

Preview: Trinity Summer Series Returns for 2026

The Trinity Summer Series returns to College Park for 2026 with another star studded lineup. This fixture of Dublin’s midsummer has risen rapidly in popularity since its inception almost a decade ago. With Rag’n’Bone…

DAAD shifts Indian focus beyond student mobility

More than 60,000 Indian students are currently enrolled in German universities, making them the largest international cohort in the country, with the growth widely seen as driven by affordability and research quality.…

Carmilla and Sheridan Le Fanu: The Gothic Writer and Trinity Alumnus Whose Sapphic Vampire Novella May Have Inspired Dracula

I still remember my first encounter with vampire media. I was a naive middle schooler who stumbled across their mother’s bookshelf, to be ultimately captivated by a book with a bright, red apple on the cover. That was…

Texas proposes Bible readings for K-12 students, reigniting century-old legal battle over their place in public schools

A proposed list of required reading for Texan public schools includes several stories from the Bible. plherrera/E+ via Getty Images In 2023, Texas passed a law aimed at improving K-12 students’ reading . In part, it…

The Art of Classroom Timing: 10 Ways to Fit It All In

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AI gives more praise, less criticism to Black students

As schools introduce artificial intelligence into the classroom, a new analysis suggests that these tools could be steering students in different directions depending on who they are. Researchers from Stanford…

4 ways to turn math fears into math cheers

Key points: When students believe they can do math, learning soars It’s time to rewrite math standards for the future Rethinking student assessment: Tools and strategies for meaningful evaluation For more on students…

Meet the 9 appointees who will control buildings and transportation for public schools in Indianapolis

Sign up for Chalkbeat Indiana’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Indianapolis Public Schools, Marion County’s township districts, and statewide education news. Inadequate transportation. Declining enrollment. An…

How the Georgia legislature left counties with no way to run the 2026 election

​​ This news analysis was originally distributed in Votebeat’s free weekly newsletter. Sign up to get future editions, including the latest reporting from Votebeat bureaus and curated news from other publications,…

5 books set in the world’s best universities for a little escape

In case you missed it, it was World Book Week last week. In conjunction, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to compile a list of books set in the world’s best universities for a little escapism. Universities like Oxford and…

Religious education for minorities

ON March 30, the Punjab Education, Curriculum, Training and Assessment Authority (Pectaa) through a notification approved books for religious education in schools for students of six minority faiths — Christianity,…

Graz University of Technology: Shaping the next generation of electrical engineers

Most students count down the days to graduation. The moment their programme ends, they move on. So when a student not only stays but spends the next many years at the same university, earning a PhD and eventually…

The education of ‘Professor’ Jiang, the world’s most-watched YouTube lecturer

To earn the title “Professor”, the path is usually long. Get a PhD , teach as an associate professor. Climb the academic ladder. Build a solid research track record. “Professor” Jiang did none of that. Instead, he…

ESF reserves reach HK$3.75 billion, even as government subsidies shrink

The reserves of Hong Kong’s largest international school group have more than tripled to HK$3.75 billion (US$480.8 million) in over a decade, even as it taps different income sources to offset shrinking government…

BOOKMAN BILINGUAL 雙語書林： Chinglish or Natural English? 中式英語或道地英語？

Justice Clarence Thomas on the Declaration of Independence

On April 15, Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin in honor of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Here's a taste: The second paragraph of the Declaration…

Chernobyl Wasn't a Nuclear Disaster—It Was a Communist Disaster

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, the explosion was…