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Chris Tatem hosts Cross Examined Life, a podcast encouraging respectful disagreement and thorough discussion of issues. In this episode, we talk about free will, the illusion of linear time, gun control, the ideal age of death, and more. Listen to Cross Examined Life: http://www.crossexaminedlife.com/  This episode is a re-upload from a podcast I previously hosted. It seemed appropriate to place here, as respectful conversation about difficult issues is undervalued in practice and is incredibly important to our educational systems and to society in general. 

Lots and lots to talk about...

An online campaign named #ClearTheList is spreading on Instagram to help people pitch in to stock a teacher’s classroom for the start of the school year.

The office of a black employee at the Department of Education was allegedly vandalized earlier this week in an event that some department employees are calling a racist incident.

Australia's most populous state said it will ax a Chinese-funded education program that teaches Mandarin in schools amid fears over potential foreign influence.

Enduring less-than-ideal living conditions is something of a rite of passage for many college students. While the cost of higher education keeps rising, though, outpacing inflation every year since 1985, maintenance of student dormitories at many institutions has not always kept up. In interviews and exchanges with dozens of students across the country, heating and cooling issues were the most frequent complaints. But some reported much more serious problems, including vermin and mold.

President Trump signed a measure on Wednesday that seeks to remove the bureaucratic barriers for permanently disabled veterans to qualify for student loan forgiveness, which he said would save 25,000 wounded warriors an average of $30,000.

Bastian and Fuller set out to examine schools with varying start times, with the goal of answering two important questions. Do later high school start times predict students’ engagement with school and their achievement in school? Do later high school start times have larger impacts on the engagement and achievement outcomes of disadvantaged student subgroups? They examined a diverse set of students and schools across urban and rural settings, including 410 unique high schools and 770,623 individual students.

Tony Vincent is a pioneer in digital learning .He had a classroom website before many classrooms had internet access.In 2005 started one of the first podcasts from an elementary school. Tony has authored books, produced videos, developed an iPad app, and blogged about learning and technology over the course of several years. He is also the creator of Learning in Hand, the platform where you can find and interact with his plethora of web content for educators.