Dr. Heather Malin, Director of Research at the Stanford Center on Adolescence, poses this provocative question in her 2018 book, Teaching With Purpose. Marlins defines purpose as “a future-directed ...

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Having a purpose comes with benefits, according to Heather Malin, a consultant and former director of research at the Stanford Center on Adolescence. When students identify a greater purpose in what ...

In our modern American society, education is used for a multitude of purposes — from preparing students to find careers to pushing political agendas in certain areas. Although the practical benefits ...

In the past five years, higher education has been in a seemingly endless state of disruption.

In the spring of this year, education in our country was set into chaos. Teachers and administrators scrambled to find ways of delivering instruction in a remote setting. The fall rolled around, and ...

The pace of change in education today is dizzying. Artificial intelligence, once the domain of science fiction, is now part of everyday student life. In a single year, tools like ChatGPT have reshaped ...

Several months ago a committee of the Harvard Arts and Sciences faculty recommended changes in the university’s core curriculum, the required courses outside the students’ specialization. Although the ...

I first wrote in a guest editorial outlining the primary purpose of education that appeared in the OC Register Opinion section in 1998. At a time when phonemic awareness and basic reading, writing and ...

I was about 8 years old when my grandma made me aware of how many questions I ask. She even assured me that one day I’d be a lawyer. Assertively, and certainly with the passion I still hold today, I ...