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Interviews with educators, innovative graduate students and individuals who've devoted their lives to the development of the world's youth.

Bank of Memories Preserves Ukraine’s Fallen Heroes and Digital Legacies
Iryna Savytska is the CEO and co-founder of Bank of Memories, a Ukraine-based digital memorial and family-archive initiative. She leads projects preserving video stories, photographs, voices, documents, and digital legacies for families of fallen Ukrainian soldiers and veterans. Working with municipalities, government partners, bereaved families, and international organizations, Savytska advances secure, decentralized remembrance systems, memorial films, digital wills, biometric protection, export rights, and scalable content-management tools for communities affected by war throughout wartime Ukraine today.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen8 days ago in Education
We’re Turning University Libraries Into Study Halls. We’re Losing the Accident That Makes Them Matter.
Two weeks before exam week, the line outside the library stretched from the first floor to the third. Someone arrives at 6:30, puts a bag on a chair, and then goes to buy breakfast. Someone else claims a seat but never shows up all day, leaving only a note that says “Taken.” Rows of students wear headphones, facing their computers and books, so quiet that the only sounds left are pages turning and keyboards clicking.
By Jin10 days ago in Education
I can't hold the vastness of the cosmos in my head,
This is an AI conversation I had with Co-pilot (I need a friend..lol) I actually work with co-pilot on analysis of poetry and poems whose meaning escapes me. This particular convo had to do with a small question regarding a query to make the length of 5 light years palatable to my size.
By Victor Mendez13 days ago in Education
The Teacher Who Was Reported for Doing the Ordinary Part of His Job
When Zou Hua learned a complaint had been filed against him, he was preparing a lesson. The principal opened the door and called his name. Zou Hua put down his pen and followed him into the hall. The principal said nothing until they reached the office. Then he played a video. A parent held a phone toward the camera and said the teacher would not let her child eat. Zou Hua watched it twice. He recognized the parent of the student who had cut the lunch line. He stood for a moment and said, “I told him to step out of line and wait at the back so the other students could get their food first.” The principal did not reply.
By Jin18 days ago in Education
She Built a School With OnlyFans Money. Then the Questions Started.
The classroom sits at the edge of a small town in the Philippines. Gray concrete. Corrugated iron roof. Windows without glass, only wooden frames. Inside, a new blackboard. Chalk dust already in the tray. Desks in neat rows. Plastic film still on the surfaces. A plaque by the door says “Anonymous.” No one knows where the money came from. Everyone in town knows.
By Jin26 days ago in Education
They Called It “Voluntary.” The Roster Said Otherwise.
A duty roster ran from October 8 to October 15. At the top of the header, a parenthesis held one word: “new.” That meant it had already been revised. The rotation had run at least one cycle. Parents had covered for one another. The schedule had been worked out in practice. Saturday, October 10, also had a shift.
By Jin26 days ago in Education
Who Really Runs China’s Schools? The 2,898 People Who Never Taught
Who really runs China’s grassroots schools? The 2,898 people in charge In 2019, Beijing Normal University surveyed 2,898 education bureau directors across 26 provinces. Cheng Jianping, then a national political advisor and party secretary of the university, found the results alarming. Many grassroots education leaders had been appointed or transferred from outside education. They lacked the professional capacity to guide reform. A book by Cong Chunxia of the National Academy of Education Administration added detail: only 39.3 percent of directors had previously served as principals or deputy bureau directors. 60.7 percent came from township governments, county party committees, or county government offices. Among sitting directors, 43 percent had no education work experience.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
Yuliia Bilous and Kateryna Datsko on Women Transforming Ukraine’s Transport Sector
How are Yuliia Bilous and Kateryna Datsko advancing women’s employment, retraining, and leadership in Ukraine’s transport sector through She Drives and Lead Change?
By Scott Douglas Jacobsenabout a month ago in Education
The 318/320 That Shouldn’t Exist
318. Full marks for the theoretical round: 320. On the Jiangsu regional score sheet, that number is followed by a name: a second-year student at Haian Middle School. Experimental score: 73. Total: 391. Another competitor is mentioned repeatedly: from Nanjing Normal University Affiliated High School—second in Quantum, first in Aipeiyou joint exam, total 340.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
She Said No. He Kept Sending “I’d Love to Visit Your Home.” A Guizhou Teacher’s Transfer Is Not the End.
She said she didn't want private contact. He kept sending "I'd love to visit your home." On September 18, at Dafang County No. 2 Middle School in Bijie, Guizhou, a physics teacher sent WeChat messages to a female student. In screenshots, he wrote: "Actually, I have never stopped loving you." He also wrote: "In my heart, you are my family." Then: "I'd really love to visit your home, but I don't know the way." The student replied: "Privately, I don't want any more small talk or one-on-one contact." She said no. He kept sending. A netizen later called police. On September 19, Jiuyi Police Station said it received the report on the 18th and officers were following up. The education bureau said police and the discipline inspection commission had stepped in. The school said the teacher was no longer there and had been transferred. The student was still attending class.
By Jin2 months ago in Education
The Relational Ontology of Personhood. AI-Generated.
Core Thesis Reality is intelligible through ordered relation. To identify anything as a determinate thing is to locate it within distinctions, boundaries, conditions, and modes of relation that make it the kind of thing it is. A thing is not understood merely by naming that it exists. It is understood by asking what it is, where it exists, when it exists, how it exists, what relations make that mode of existence possible, and whether its mode of being rises to the level of personhood.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Education
I Saved 147 Articles and Remembered Nothing. Then I Built a Cognitive System.
How to build a cognitive system when information never stops You have 147 articles saved to “Read Later.” Eight unnamed documents sit on your desktop. Your WeChat favorites are so full they will not load. At the end of the semester, you open CNKI. The search box is empty. Your mind is empty too. You have read things. You have no place to call them up from.
By Jin2 months ago in Education