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Academy of Natural Sciences Photo credit: ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Michael Idris, manager of the African American Interpretive Program at the Museum of the American Revolution, joined Tiffany Bacon on The Midday Break Room to discuss the announced closing of the Academy of Natural Sciences, warning that losing museums means losing critical access to education, curiosity and community. He also detailed the museum’s work training young people […]

Luke Bilger, executive director of educational technology for the School District of Philadelphia, joined Life and Tech with TechLifeSteph to discuss the district’s back-to-school technology policies. Bilger said every K-12 student receives a Chromebook, while generative AI chatbots are limited to high school students using district-approved Google Gemini accounts to protect student data. Ryan Mulholland, senior fellow for international economic policy at the Center for American Progress, joined Dr. James […]

Perhaps Washington's Reflecting Pool should stay exactly as it is. Its mess reflects ours. By Dr. James Peterson The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an unironic reflection of the current administration. The Reflecting Pool is supposed to center the architecture of American democracy – the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial. These days, we all see an administration reflected back at itself: murky, expensive, badly managed, reflexively punitive and seemingly […]