Maggie MacDonnell doesn’t teach at Andover or Eton. Her school is in the Canadian Arctic—in Salluit, to be precise, a remote Inuit village where the temperatures dip down to -13°F (-25°C) in winter and whose community of indigenous people has seen more than its share of depression and teen suicide.
Jay-Z—or JAY-Z, if we’re honoring the rapper’s latest personal rebrand—has released his 13th studio album, 4:44, exclusively on Tidal, the streaming service that he bought back in 2015. Like previous drops from Rihanna and Beyoncé, 4:44 is available today only for Tidal users (and Sprint telecom customers in the US, thanks to a massive deal with the phone company that Jay struck in January).
The Trump administration’s school-choice plan—the controversial idea of having government money follow students to private schools as well as public ones—just scored a big win.
You know the myth. Pandora, a fallible human created by the gods, opens a box without knowing the full consequences, and her actions change the course of civilization. The metaphor is often misapplied—but in the case of Pandora, the internet music company, it may find a dark fit.
Rock and roll is dead. No, it isn’t! Or is it?
Since MySpace’s fall, music has been almost entirely absent from social media.
Add this to the myriad of benefits of diversity: Having a mixture of different ethnicities in a learning environment makes students of all racial backgrounds feel safer, less bullied, and less lonely, according to a new study published this week.
What’s in a name? Not much that can be deemed legally problematic, it turns out. The US Supreme Court ruled today (June 19) that offensive or disparaging trademarks are protected under the First Amendment—overturning a prior rule saying that federal trademarks can be denied for derogatory names.
US president Donald Trump has wrought mayhem on America’s universities without so much as lifting a finger.
The most high-profile job in the private education sector is about to be up for grabs.
A single Beyoncé Instagram—just one (1) plain photo-and-caption post from the pop star—is worth around $1 million.
In much of Asia, K-pop is king.
Nietzsche once wrote: “Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” He would’ve loved peering into the windows of a zumba class.
Microsoft peddles laptops. Google touts services such as collaborative calendars and spreadsheet-making software. After building their businesses on products that students use, it’s not surprising that tech giants—from actual computer companies to other Silicon Valley darlings like Salesforce and Netflix—are wedging their way into education itself, especially as the US market for education technology is predicted to bloom to $21 billion by 2020. Most tech leaders are getting in by making learning apps, donating to policy campaigns, or partnering with individual schools.
It can only be assumed that anyone accepted into Harvard, one of America’s most elite universities, had an impressive list of academic and personal accomplishments to get them there. But all it took was a Facebook group titled “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens” to get at least 10 accepted students kicked out—before they even set foot in Harvard Yard.
Part of US president Donald Trump’s justification for pulling the country out of the global Paris climate agreement yesterday was that the deal wouldn’t reduce temperatures enough to make an impact. Citing research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the president said that even total compliance from all the nations involved in the accord—which hopes to limit global warming to 2°C by 2100—would only produce a “two-tenths of 1°C reduction in global temperature by the year 2100.”
Like raising a child, it takes a village to create a hit song.
Hillary Clinton—Wellesley College alum, former US presidential candidate, and former secretary of state—returned to her alma mater to give a somber commencement speech today (May 26). She spoke about leadership, self-worth, and the need to band together as a community and fight against injustice.
“You know what?” Hillary Clinton said to students at Wellesley College today (May 26). “I’m doing okay.”
Nearly 3 million people tuned in on Facebook yesterday (May 25) to watch Mark Zuckerberg deliver the graduation address at Harvard, the university he dropped out of a decade ago. Thousands of others watched the livestream on Harvard’s site, or attended the ceremony itself on the school’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Justin Bieber fans are doing something peculiar: begging, with all their might, for the pop star not to perform.
Being number two still means quite a lot. Stanford Business School regularly ranks second on the list of US MBA programs—yet its alumni, including 244 active chief executive officers and four self-made billionaires, boast higher salaries one year out of school than graduates of other business schools. (Six to eight years out, Stanford MBA grads tie with Harvard grads for salary, averaging $285,000 a year.)
This June, it’s exactly 50 years since the Beatles dropped Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band—a seminal album that shaped its time. As Rolling Stone magazine writer Langdon Winner put it:
Yelp is ruining careers again.
