By Elizabeth Bettini, Assistant Professor of Special Education, Boston University
LaRon A. Scott, Professor of Special Education, University of Virginia
Tuan D. Nguyen, Associate professor of edcuational leadershiop and policy analysis, University of Missouri-Columbia
Declining interest in the teacher profession and recent Trump administration budget cuts pose challenges to developing a diverse educator workforce.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The federal opposition has accepted an invitation from Treasurer Jim Chalmers for shadow treasurer Ted O'Brien to attend the August economic roundtable.
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By Ted Olson, Professor of Appalachian Studies and Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music Studies, East Tennessee State University
Ask Americans about the Scopes trial, and they might have heard of it as the “trial of the century,” a showdown over teaching human evolution.
Less well known are its origins. As historian Edward J. Larson observed in “Summer for the Gods,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning book: “Like so many archetypal American events, the trial itself began as a publicity stunt.”
Held during July 1925 in the tiny railroad town…
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By Christelle Khalaf, Associate Director, Government Finance Research Center, University of Illinois Chicago
When presidential administrations turn over, funding levels and project priorities change. A look at one specific government office demonstrates how these shifts in direction waste time and money.
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By Eleanor Paynter, Assistant Professor of Italian, Migration, and Global Media Studies, University of Oregon
A federal judge had previously blocked the Trump administration’s plans to deport immigrants to third-country destinations, but some of them have remained detained in another African county, Djibouti.
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By David Sella-Villa, Assistant Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
Internet of Things devices are collecting an increasing amount of information, creating a web of data harvesting that ensnares people all around them.
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By Michael Carroll, Reader / Associate Professor in Reproductive Science, Manchester Metropolitan University
Seminal plasma hypersensitivity can trigger allergic reactions after sex. Although it’s treatable, it’s often mistaken for yeast infections or STIs.
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By Dai O'Brien, Associate Professor, BSL and Deaf Studies, York St John University
People often look at me strangely when I tell them that one of my best every festival experiences was in a portaloo.
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By Eric Strikwerda, Associate Professor, History, Athabasca University
“We’re freeing John A.,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently announced, unveiling plans to return a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald to its place of prominence overlooking the south lawn of the Ontario legislature at Queen’s Park.
The statue’s return comes five years after activists, disgusted by the first Canadian prime minister’s racist policies, sprayed…
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By Lucia Berdondini, Associate Professor in Psychology, University of East London
Nomsa Sandra Wayland, Clinical Tutor, Psychology and Human Development, University of East London
Humanitarian work takes a profound emotional toll on workers. It places them at the frontline of global crises, at times witnessing the devastating impacts of war, famine, natural disasters, mass displacement and systemic injustice. Humanitarian workers have to cope with emotional exhaustion and burnout, with stress levels in some humanitarian settings comparable to those in combat zones.
The emotional burden deepens when workers feel unable to live up to the very values that initially drew them to the sector.…
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