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☆ An expat in Panama explains what movers can expect to pay and the pros and cons of raising kids abroad
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

In 2015, Davidson settled down in Panama City, working as a technical support manager. He met his wife in Panama, and the two bought a $150,000 home and now raise their children in the capital. Beaches near Coronado, Panama City. Living for cheaper in Central AmericaHe met his wife in Panama, and they had two children. Mac DavidsonHe said average home prices in Panama City are often half what he saw in Manitoba's cities, which were about $400,000 when he checked earlier this year.

Persons: Mac Davidson, Davidson, —, It's, Panama Davidson, he's, He's Organizations: Service, University of Manitoba, Friendly Nations, Nissan Locations: Canada, Panama, Manitoba, Panama City, Coronado , Panama City, Florida, American, Central America, Ancon, Manitoba's, Vancouver, North America

☆ When my family moved from the US to the UK, I enrolled my kids in an IB program. They're now better prepared for college.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-08 | by ( Fabriene Prudencio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

However, when we relocated to the UK, as an educator myself, I knew that I wanted an International Baccalaureate (IB) education for all of my children moving forward. Our twins, both now 18, have just completed their final year of the IB program and will attend university. In those middle years at school, children are supposed to be focussing on learning and developing key skills. The IB has prepared my children better for universityWhile my older twins have found the IB challenging, the program has also nurtured their passion for learning, encouraging their intellectual curiosity. This is because an IB school gets students involved in group projects, independent research, and advanced writing assignments throughout their education.

Persons: —, Egham Organizations: Service, Business, IB, Egham, Oxford Locations: Miami, Cambridge

☆ Why you may want to reconsider a career in AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

NYU Stern's chief AI architect warns against chasing AI jobs because of tech's cyclical nature. Chief AI Conor Grennan suggests going after what you're good at and enhancing it with AI. But hopping on the AI job train may not be the smartest idea, NYU's Stern School of Business Chief AI Architect Conor Grennan told Business Insider. Grennan emphasizes the tech industry's cyclical nature and questions the long-term stability of AI jobs. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ In Education and Media, Markets Aren’t Always Right - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Bret Stephens | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

Don’t Tell My Friends, But… is a seriesin which we asked Times columnistswhateveryone else is wrong about. On its face, there’s nothing necessarily political about the mantra that the customer is always right. But the idea that the customer is always right also contains a worldview, a kind of market fundamentalism that typifies much of the American right today. The problem starts when our decisions aren’t merely subjective — that is, when questions of truth, moral or factual, are involved. Students today, whose parents often pay fortunes for their education, are treated like valuable customers, not lowly apprentices.

Persons: “, didn’t, —, Walter Cronkite, That’s, It’s, Hadrian, ”, Marguerite Yourcenar, there’s Organizations: Conservatives, University curriculums, Liberal, Yale, Princeton Locations: United States

☆ Harris Embraces Teachers’ Unions. Republicans Sense an Opening.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Dana Goldstein | Nicholas Nehamas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“While you teach students about our nation’s past, these extremists attack the freedom to learn and acknowledge our nation’s true and full history,” she said to applause and cheers. “Including book bans. Book bans in this year of our Lord 2024!”But Ms. Harris’s speech to members of the American Federation of Teachers also ignored several crucial education issues that could put her on shakier political ground — and that Republicans are already seeking to tie her to. There was no mention of the long-term negative effects of pandemic-era school closures, which local teachers’ unions pushed to extend. She did not address whether families should have greater access to charter schools, private-school vouchers or public funds for home-schooling — all options that the unions argue reduce funds for traditional public schools.

Persons: Kamala Harris, ” Organizations: White, American Federation of Teachers Locations: Houston

☆ Opinion | Antisemitism on Campuses, Ivy and Beyond
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Should American Jews Abandon Elite Universities?,” by Bret Stephens (column, June 26):Mr. Stephens has issued a sobering and well-documented indictment of antisemitism on elite campuses. The question asked by the headline is timely and troubling for many Jewish high school students and their families. But the insensitivity and hypocrisy of supposedly idealistic and enlightened college students may be the most striking and unkind cut of all. “Safe spaces” and rules against “microaggressions” have become commonplace on campuses. Yet when Jewish students made it known that calling for deadly attacks on Jews (“Globalize the intifada!”) is offensive and intimidating, they were ignored.

Persons: Bret Stephens, Stephens, curriculums, “ microaggressions Organizations: Abandon Elite

☆ The Olympics have long promoted safe sex. Now it wants to focus on pleasure.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Jessie Gretener | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Rather, when it comes to sex, pleasure takes first place. They will also have numerous sexual health testing centers on site for athletes, in addition to the sexual health awareness messaging. Rather, she says the most productive way to encourage safe sex is to flip the script from the beginning by focusing on why people have sex. Philpott told CNN that the need to shift the narrative in safe sex conversations is as urgent as ever. The scheme to which he contributes, known as “Moving The Goalposts,” works directly with community leaders, fathers, and young boys to provide resources on sexual health, sexual rights, gender, and positive masculinity.

Persons: Ed, Buda Mendes, Terrence Higgins, Anne Philpott, ” Philpott, Philpott, “ There’s, it’s, Deogratia Okoko, ”, ” Okoko, “ Organizations: CNN, Paris, Olympic, World Health Organization, Olympics, Seoul Games, International Olympic, Paralympic Village, Getty, Terrence Higgins Trust, Wellcome Locations: Love, United States, COVID, Kilifi, Kenya

☆ Japanese mother and child stabbed in China in front of school bus
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Nectar Gan | Himari Semans | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Tokyo/Hong Kong CNN —A Japanese woman and her child were among three people stabbed by a man on Monday in front of a school bus at a bus stop in eastern China, according to Japanese authorities. In Suzhou, the attack took place Monday afternoon as the mother waited to pick up her child at a bus stop near a Japanese school, according to the Japanese official. The school bus is from the Suzhou Japanese School, located less than a mile from the bus stop in an area where many Japanese nationals live, NHK said. Opened in 2005, the Suzhou Japanese School offers six-year elementary school and three-year junior high school curriculums, according to its website. Its rules state that students must be picked up by a parent or guardian from the school bus.

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☆ 2024 has become the year of gambling scandals in the sports world. That could be a good thing.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Ashley Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

While the expansion of legal sports betting has made gambling more accessible, it's also helped spot infractions like these. The MLB also said it was tipped off about Marcano's betting activity by a legal sports-betting operator, ESPN reported. There's little data available to show whether gambling violations like these occur more or less often in the age of legal gambling, in part because they weren't easily tracked before 2018. They could be college football players betting on the NFL, or NFL players betting on games their teams weren't playing in. As sports-betting continues to expand in more states and the industry evolves, there may be more gambling scandals to come.

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☆ Betting scandals have rocked sports this year. Here's why that could be a good thing.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Ashley Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

While the expansion of legal sports betting has made gambling more accessible, it's also helped spot infractions like these. The MLB also said it was tipped off about Marcano's betting activity by a legal sports-betting operator, ESPN reported. "When you are operating in the dark, you have no idea what is actually happening — if refs are partaking in illegal betting or players are partaking in betting," Slane said. Many US states where sports betting is legal require gambling companies to work with a licensed independent integrity-monitoring service, like IC360 or Sportradar, to identify suspicious betting activity. They could be college football players betting on the NFL, or NFL players betting on games their teams weren't playing in.

☆ Kamala Harris blasts Rep. Byron Donalds for comments on Black families under Jim Crow
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Donald Judd | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Vice President Kamala Harris, in an interview published Monday, criticized a suggestion made last week by Republican Rep. Byron Donalds that Black families were “together” during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation. Ron DeSantis into Black history curriculums. “During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative — because Black people have always been conservative-minded — but more Black people voted conservatively,” he said. “Everyone on that list has supported a Trump abortion ban in their state or has called for a national ban. Are we supposed to debate that?”The vice president has often served as the administration’s messenger on an array of hot-button issues.

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☆ My nanny share was more expensive than day care — and more work
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Elliott Walker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A day care would've been cheaper and we would've done less admin work. At day care, she'd be one of 10 babies in a class, which I (incorrectly) assumed would mean a lower level of care. So yes, if we had been set on using a nanny instead of day care, doing a share would have saved us money. Related storiesBut a nanny share compared to day care? For us, that was the final straw on the big pile of reasons to stop the nanny share.

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☆ What to Know About State Laws That Limit or Ban D.E.I. Efforts at Colleges
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-21 | by ( Anna Betts | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In recent decades, American universities have expanded their diversity programs to address concerns about the underrepresentation of minority groups on campus. But supporters of such efforts say they are necessary to promote diversity and help students from various backgrounds succeed on campus. For some universities, the opposition to diversity programs comes at a challenging time, as they face an incoming student shortage and skepticism of the value of a college degree at today’s prices. And after the Supreme Court’s ban on race-conscious admissions last year, some educators are even more concerned about diversity on their campuses. Here’s what to know about the efforts to limit D.E.I.

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☆ Private equity finds its next bet: college admissions
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Now, private equity firms are swooping in to help while taking majority stakes in exchange. Last week, the company announced that it would partner with California-based private equity firm Nexus Capital Management and move its test into a for-profit company. A company owned by private equity can obfuscate what the company actually does to the public and potentially to regulators. Private equity firms “come into industries that are already suffering from a lack of funding,” said Creeks. They’ve had a lack of funding and support and so sometimes private equity is the only viable option.

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☆ Business schools are now encouraging students to use AI as they race to prepare them for a new job market
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-07 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Business schools are now integrating AI into their curriculums to keep graduates competitive. AdvertisementBusiness schools are going all in on AI to keep their graduates competitive in the job market. And at some schools, professors are even building their own specialized AI chatbots to teach students soft skills. In the fall, American University's Kogod School of Business plans to "infuse AI into every part of our curriculum," its dean, David Marchick, said in a video on the school's website. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Opinion | The Key to Better Math Education? Explaining Money.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I offer to pay you $200 in one year if you give me $190 today. It’s the kind of math problem you might encounter in real life, as opposed to, say, whether the cosecant of a 30-degree angle is 1 or 2. Math and personal finance make a perfect fit. A survey in 2022 funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation found that 61 percent of parents of students said math education should be “relevant to the real world” but that only 21 percent said it was. Some of America’s top universities are incorporating personal finance into their curriculums.

Persons: Bill, Melinda Gates Organizations: Melinda Gates Foundation

☆ Educators teaching AI literacy to students should include ethics in their lesson plans, scholars say
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Ngozi Nwanji | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

While some optimists focus on AI's benefits in education, others fear that using AI in classrooms could catalyze cheating and misinformation. This is where AI literacy can be useful. Created within the Stanford Graduate School of Education, CRAFT is a collaborative effort of Stanford education researchers, software developers, and curriculum developers. Lee also told BI that AI literacy in classrooms "should involve recognition of where AI can be effective and where it requires extra vigilance." He said the school also hopes to grow CRAFT's teacher codesign fellowship through which fellows develop AI literacy lessons.

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Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X met. It was on March 26, 1964, and the two civil rights leaders were both in Washington for a Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act. The moment is also depicted in the new installment of National Geographic's “Genius” anthology series called “ Genius: MLK /X," premiering Thursday. Kelvin Harrison Jr. (King) and Aaron Pierre (Malcolm X) now can be at ease about being scheduled to shoot the scene on the first day of filming. Their hope is that with “Genius: MLK/X," viewers will recognize the contributions of both men to civil rights and U.S. history.

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☆ Opinion: Our possibly short national nightmare
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

“My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over,” President Gerald Ford said. “Our campaign is the last best hope of stopping the Trump-Biden nightmare,” the former UN ambassador said. If not, it won’t be as protracted a “national nightmare” as the two-year-long Watergate scandal that put Gerald Ford in the Oval Office. Though, depending on your point of view, the real nightmare could begin after the swearing-in. Yet, John Avlon wrote, Trump and some members of the House GOP, want to tank an emerging compromise in the Senate that would couple border security measures with aid to Ukraine.

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☆ Media literacy is more than spotting fake news. How one librarian gives teens the tools to decide what to trust
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Alisha Ebrahimji | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

With lots of kids now getting their news from social media – where disinformation and content created by artificial intelligence run rampant – 18 states have some form of K-12 media literacy education on the books, according to Media Literacy Now. Of those, four – Delaware, Texas, New Jersey and, starting this year, California – mandate media literacy, with lesson standards now being crafted state by state. “But we haven’t really taught people how to use them ethically, efficiently and responsibly.”To do that, a media literacy lesson might include analyzing which emotions the wording of a mass media headline evoke. And California starting this year requires media literacy instruction to be integrated into K-12 mathematics, science and history-social science curriculums when they’re revised, according to the bill. It’s why Manganello has spent nearly two decades perfecting how she teaches media literacy.

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☆ ‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. Crusade
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Nicholas Confessore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +44 min

‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. “In support of ridding schools of C.R.T., the Right argues that we want nonpolitical education,” Mr. Klingenstein wrote in August 2021. In a 2023 exchange, Dr. Yenor and two associates discussed how to defend Amy Wax, a conservative law professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Yenor and his allies bristled at the conventions of academic life as overly solicitous toward female and nonwhite students. Samuel Ginn, Claremont donor“The president then told him, ‘Things will change,’” a Claremont fund-raiser wrote to Dr. Yenor and other officials there.

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☆ Opinion: The dangerous Civil War ideology looming over the 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Opinion Karen Finney | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The myth of the Lost Cause hasn’t been defeated. Echoes of Lost Cause mythology have also been invoked throughout the primary by Trump’s leading opponents, Florida Gov. The myth of the Lost Cause hasn’t been defeated. In short, it was defeated and discredited, but Lost Cause mythology nevertheless lives on. It was easy not to indulge my grandmother Mildred Lee in her promotion of Lost Cause mythology.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Restrictions on medical care for transgender minors are up for debate in the South Carolina House on Wednesday, as a slew of like-minded proposals receive discussion in a Missouri legislative committee. The measures' consideration highlights the continued interest among conservative lawmakers in targeting issues impacting transgender residents after last year's wave of high-profile bills. South Carolina is one of the few Southern states without a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. At least 22 states have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, and many of those states face lawsuits. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

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☆ Opinion | Economics Textbooks Are Finally Getting a Vital Update
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But for nearly 15 years, leading introductory economics textbooks gave students an outdated or incomplete explanation of how the Federal Reserve conducts monetary policy. Only now are the textbooks catching up with reality, and some still haven’t fully embraced the new world. And the Council for Economic Education, a nonprofit, is aiming to publish updated standards for what high school economics students should know in 2025. Still, it’s disappointing — though maybe not surprising — that it has taken so long for the notoriously slow-moving world of education to catch up. To explain where the textbooks lagged, I need to do a quick run through the recent changes in monetary policy.

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☆ My husband was forced to return to the office. Life got harder and more expensive when all of the parenting duties fell to me.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Elle Hardy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

When Marquita Wright and her husband were working from home, they split childcare duties. AdvertisementAdvertisementThen my husband went back to the officeAbout 18 months ago, he was told he had to return to the office three days per week. My husband going back to the office meant we needed to reconsider how to balance our work and family life. AdvertisementAdvertisementMy husband's schedule changed againThree months ago, my husband was told he had to start going into the office every day. I wish my husband could return to working from home a few days a week, but it doesn't look like that will happen anytime soon.

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