These Apps Help Kids With Autism Learn Basic Skills
Infiniteach, a Chicago startup, is building learning tools for the one in 68 children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders today
Please Touch the Art: 3-D Printing Helps Visually Impaired Appreciate Paintings
The new “Touching the Prado” exhibit in Madrid showcases 3-D replicas of paintings, so blind visitors can feel key works of art
A Kit to Make Robots Out of Drinking Straws and Other Wild Ideas That Just Got Funded
Perhaps a three-dimensional paper mount of an animal is just what your living room needs
Eight Innovators to Watch in 2015
From food science and robotics to solar tech and sustainable architecture, these folks are poised to do big things
How Do Kids Learn Where There Are No Teachers? It May Take a Village…Computer
A non-profit called Projects for All has a plan for educating children without schools: Turn them loose on outdoor computer kiosks in their community
How Do You Make a Great Teacher?
Push student teachers harder, stick with them once they’re in the classroom, and integrate them into their schools’ communities
Exclusive: The Chimpanzees of Gombe National Park Make Their Street View Debut
For its latest collection, Google traveled to the African rainforest where Jane Goodall pioneered her groundbreaking chimp research
The 2014 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award Winners
These 10 innovators in science, history, society and the arts are a testament to the imagination and hard work that define the nation’s spirit
Could This Be the Answer to the Tech World’s Diversity Problem?
Kimberly Bryant hopes to crack the code with her organization that teaches young girls of color how to program
The Amazing Results When You Give a Prison Inmate a Liberal Arts Education
Prison reform activist Max Kenner champions the transformative power of a college degree for inmates nationwide
Are Tablets the Way Out of Child Illiteracy?
Give them technology that they may have never seen before, and students’ brains will work wonders
Can’t Picture a World Devastated by Climate Change? These Games Will Do it for You
Augmented and virtual reality games may help crack the code of getting humans to do something about the environment
Bringing the Farm to Your Backyard
Development Supported Agriculture is a growing trend in the housing world, and one subdivision is taking it mainstream
Why It’s Time to Show Failure Some Respect
An Irish exhibition titled “Fail Better” argues that flubs make success possible
Have Scientists Found a Way to Pop the Filter Bubble?
They say the key to exposing us to opposing views is to get them from people with whom we share other interests
How Do You Get Poor Kids to Apply to Great Colleges?
Caroline Hoxby and her team of researchers are revolutionizing the way the best colleges reach out to talented low-income students
Should We Use Body Painting to Teach Anatomy?
Artist Danny Quirk’s paintings on the skin of willing friends show in textbook-like detail the muscle, bone and tissue that lie underneath
Can Facial Recognition Really Tell If a Kid Is Learning in Class?
Inventors of software called EngageSense say you can tell if kids are engaged in class by analyzing their eye movements
Will This $15 Device Protect Against School Shootings?
High school students in Washington D.C. have designed the DeadStop, a simple attachment that instantly locks armed intruders out of classrooms
Educating Americans for the 21st Century
What to Make of the Debate Over Common Core
Across 45 states and the District of Columbia, teachers are working off the same set of standards. What makes that so controversial?
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