Dear global education leader, The Wall Street Journal this week published an investigation into Facebook. Among its many damning findings was that Facebook’s own research shows that Instagram — which it owns — is toxic for young women and girls. “We make body image issues worse for one in three…

Dear global education leader, Duolingo, which offers online language courses in 40 languages to approximately 40 million monthly active users, filed to go public this week. Its prospectus — the document it files to the government prior to the IPO — says there are more people in the United States…

Dear global education leader, Do you have a paying job? What do you do? How much do you earn? These are among the questions the Higher Education Statistics Agency asks in its Graduate Outcomes survey, administered to students at British universities 15 months after graduation. In an effort to get…

Dear global education leader, The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education released its 2022 college rankings this week. Harvard, Stanford and MIT topped the list, which is as surprising as a gray day in London. The top five were the same as the top five the year before, nine…

Dear global education leader, Last week’s podcast features Boris Walbaum, founder of Forward College. Like the London Interdisciplinary School and Minerva, which we’ve written and podcasted about before, Forward aims to upend the higher ed model. It offers five academic degrees via London School of Economics and King’s College, complemented…

Dear global education leader, In Silicon Valley, there’s a concept called empathy mapping. The idea is to interview users of a new software or tech product to better understand the experience of using it. Empathy mappers interrogate pain points to find ways to improve the design. Six years ago, Donnell…

Dear global education leader, Not long ago, many educators warned us not to use the phrase “lost learning” to refer to all the academic learning that didn’t take place during various lockdowns and school closures. Students had been through enough, socially, emotionally and academically, to then be reminded they were…

Dear global education leader, On 15 August, the Taliban took Kabul, ending a 20-year international debacle that started as a war, shifted to an occupation and ended with a departure that was to some long overdue and to others a brutal abandonment. As the Taliban closed in on Kabul, Rangina…

Dear global education leader, At Ansford Academy, a rural comprehensive school for students ages 11–16 in Somerset, England, teachers are trained as coaches and helping students become independent is an institutional priority, reflected in the curriculum, the timetable, and the leadership. Every year, students and parents start the year by…