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Students Already Know Their University's Software Is Broken. AI-Generated.
Picture two meetings happening at the same university on the same afternoon. In one room, a group of students is venting about the registration portal. It crashed twice during add/drop week, nobody could figure out where to find their financial aid status, and the mobile app requires logging into three separate systems just to see a class schedule. In another room, the CIO is presenting the annual technology report to senior leadership, and the student portal is listed as a strength.
By Higher Ed Insightsabout 2 hours ago in Education
Casie Hynes on Reducing Math Anxiety in Today’s Classrooms. AI-Generated.
Math anxiety is a challenge that continues to affect students across different learning environments, and educators like Casie Hynes are helping bring attention to how this issue can be addressed in meaningful ways. Through a focus on student experience and classroom dynamics, Casie Hynes highlights that anxiety in mathematics is often shaped by how students are taught rather than their actual ability. By shifting the emphasis toward understanding and support, it becomes possible to create learning environments where students feel more confident and engaged.
By Casie Hynesa day ago in Education
The Work-Credit Cliff No One Warns You About
For many people, the idea of disability insurance carries an implicit promise. If you work, contribute, and then become disabled, there will be a system that recognizes both your effort and your need. That promise feels intuitive, almost moral. Yet for a large group of disabled people, the promise collapses the moment they try to access it. They discover, often far too late, that eligibility is not determined by disability alone, but by a specific employment history they were structurally unlikely to accumulate in the first place. This is the work-credit cliff, and it quietly excludes some of the most vulnerable people from support while maintaining the appearance of a fair, contribution-based system.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast4 days ago in Education
Faye Callaghan: UNFPA Protects Maternity Care in Ukraine Under Russian Attack
Faye Callaghan is a midwife and maternal health specialist working in international humanitarian settings. Public sources identify her with the United Nations Population Fund and describe her as a midwife with a Master’s in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research. She previously served as a Midwifery Mentor for UNFPA in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, and later led UK-Med’s mission to establish a maternal health department in Gaza. In this interview, she discusses UNFPA’s support for maternity and sexual and reproductive health services in wartime Ukraine, especially bunkerized facilities, emergency neonatal care, and the pressures facing staff, mothers, and newborns under attack there.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen4 days ago in Education
