Education

Education
Illustration of a young man spraypainting an "A" on a wall, looking through a plate glass window at a seemingly identical young man in a cap and gown, holding up a diploma, with an "A+" seen on a whiteboard.

Winning Formula

A group of alums is trying to inspire uncommon success in public education.
Education
A student rests on the grass

Applied Academics

Engaged scholars put what they’re learning into immediate action
Education
Safe school illustration

Safe School

Endangered scholars find a haven at Brown
Education
Photo of Tom Eastler ’66 in a red/black plaid coat

Tom Eastler ’66

He showed anyone, anywhere, how to racewalk
Education
illustration of 1968 events

Perspectives on 1968

Nineteen professors and experts co-taught a class on the seminal year.
Education

Wilderness Therapy

Transformative learning in the backwoods of Maine
History
Matthew Carrano ’91 grins alongside some dinosaur teeth

Mr. Dinosaur

Paleontologist Matthew Carrano ’91 and the Smithsonian’s “Deep Time” exhibit. 
Education
Illustration of Toni Morrison

Radical Vision

Life, death, love, and humanity through the eyes of Toni Morrison.
Education
Photo of Teach of the Year, Takeru Nagayoshi ’14

Teacher of the Year

Making AP English exciting
Education
Illustration by Karol Banach

A Major of One’s Own

Independent concentrations are a flagship of the Open Curriculum. Here are 5 being pursued today.
Student Life
Image of Dylan Garcia ’20

How Open is “Open”?

First-gen college students still encounter socioeconomic walls.
Education
illustrated portrait of George Morgan

Father of the Open Curriculum

Meet the emeritus professor who paved the way for the University’s signature approach to education.
Education
Boatbuilding students take a test ride

Floating Ideas

A new course combines the history of boat building with hands-on construction.
Education
Students of the United Student Achievers Program (USAP)

College Prep

A new school serves high-achieving juniors and seniors in Zimbabwe
Education
Photo of Omer Bartov

Eyewitness History

First-person accounts are often ignored in official histories of global crises. Holocaust scholar and history professor Omer Bartov explains why that’s a mistake.
Education
Illustration by Scott Bakal

Epidemics 101

Students taking BIOL 0940A could never have dreamed how personally relevant the course would soon become.
Education
Marie-Anne Barron ’22

Remote Reimagined

Thrown onto Zoom last spring, professors prep for whatever “back to school” might mean.
Issues

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