the national railroad company, S.N.C.F., has installed in nearly 100 stations across France. They are free for anyone to sit down and play, and travelers from all walks of life have taken to doing just that.
Using social media to impress people that you know – as well as those that you have never met – has now become a professional concern for many academics. I see more and more of them live tweeting and hashtagging their way through events.
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College presidents are increasingly grappling with the legacy of slavery as student protests and scholarly research illuminate how many universities participated in and profited from the domestic slave trade. In March, Harvard’s president described the institution as “directly complicit in America’s system of racial bondage” and days later commemorated four slaves who had worked in the households of two of its early leaders.
The Department of Education examined corrections spending and education spending data from 1979-1980 to 2012-2013 and found that over that time, governments increased spending on incarceration by 324 percent (from $17 to $71 billion). This is more than three times the spending increase on education, which only grew 107 percent (from $258 to $534 billion) over the same time period.
Americans owe $1.3 trillion in student loans. More than seven million borrowers are in default, and millions more are behind on their payments.
The Turkish authorities extended their purge of state institutions on Tuesday, suspending more than 15,000 employees of the education ministry for suspected links to a failed military coup last week.
Tens of thousands of people gathered in a Hong Kongpark on Saturday evening to do what people across the border in mainland China could not: commemorate the anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Squareon June 4, 1989.
The Democratic sit-in over gun-control legislation, captured mainly by House members’ smartphone video, had all the elements: emotion, chaos, conflict, life-or-death stakes and the frisson of unpredictable reality. But television cannot claim credit for the show alone; it was a coproduction with social media.
In an annual ritual, hundreds of thousands of students took the SAT this spring as they made their first steps toward applying to college. But they were not the only ones being tested.