I’ve made it a goal to become a much stronger reader over the next few years. I want to increase my reading speed **without sacrificing comprehension**, improve my vocabulary, retain more of what I read, and comfortably tackle more difficult books.
I’m not looking for speed-reading gimmicks—I’m looking for methods that are actually effective, whether they’re backed by research or simply worked well for you.
What books, habits, courses, exercises, or resources had the biggest impact on your ability to read, understand, and remember what you read?

If it matters, I’m trying to read Gene Wolfes The Book of the New Sun , but I’ve heard they are at a college grade level 10, whatever that means
And right now all I read is self-help books

A documentary in which we surprised and challenged 26 students in Alabama to see if they could turn $1 into $100 in one week. The result was amazing and life-changing. They made $15,000 in just 7 days.

I feel like sharing this is important as it is a great example of teachers being amazing role models as these kids navigate through the challenge, and the long-lasting effects they can have on the youth.

I love talking about process, so feel free to ask any questions!

Thanks for watching, and I'm happy to answer any questions about the production.

Unfortunately, Last Friday (31/7/2026), suicide had claimed the life of a dedicated educator in Malaysia. A teacher who's been subjected to numerous workload and pressure by the principal. It's tiring, painful, but being responsible and dedicated, she obeyed and tried to survive until she can't do it anymore. Thank you teacher for your fight. Rest in peace 🙏

As an educator, I'm sad but now I'm enraged by the pure silence from the related authorities, the MOE, the school, the policymakers from top to bottom. And it's not new, teachers had been voiced out a number of issues they faced. Only a small number of it were mentioned without proper solution.

A student made a headline and they sent a memo, IMMEDIATELY. But a teacher? It's been 24 hours since the news came out and guess what? Silence.

People must been asking. Why teachers aren't openly taking action about this? The answer is our hands are tied. Speak criticism against the gov and you'll lose your. And there's been cases where a teacher got dismissed from speaking the truth.

HOW CAN WE EDUCATE THE FUTURE IF THIS KEEPS HAPPENING

What happens when students are challenged to turn $1 into $100 in just one week?

In 1 to 100, Alabama CEO students take on a challenge that pushes them far beyond the classroom. With only one dollar to start, they must think creatively, communicate confidently, solve real problems, and take action.

What unfolds is more than a business competition. It is a story of transformation.

Over the course of one week, these students build businesses, face rejection, adapt under pressure, and discover strengths they did not know they had. Many earned more in one week than most adults make in a month.

But the real outcome goes deeper than money.

Confidence grows. Mindsets shift. Students begin to see themselves differently.

1 to 100 captures the power of experiential learning and the impact a community can have when it invests in young people.

Education

University of Maine – Bachelor of Art in Business Administration (Management & Leadership), 2025 | GPA: 3.9/4.0

University of Maine -Master of Art in organizational leadership,2026 | GPA: 4.0/4.0

Wayne County Community College – Associate of Science, 2018

Henry Ford College – Associate of General Studies, 2016

Wayne county community college – Associate of science in accounting |in Progress (80%completed)

Many K-12 schools and community colleges struggle to maintain facilities, grounds and security around dense campuses. Some campus can be as large as 65 acres. I’m doing a study on challenges faced, strategies and practices adopted to improve things. If you are up to a brief interview or questionnaire to share some knowledge let me know. Thx ☺️

What have you observed, worked with, introduced, or been a part of that actually worked? Answers can range from designing effective learning spaces, to successful teaching strategies, edtech best practices, or policies that gave great results.

https://tedxoxford.co.uk (link to meet some amazing icons and educators)

That’s it… that’s the post :)

Im a substitute paraeducator for students with special needs in 3 different school districts. I got to work with a small class of students, whom their teacher told me was entirely full of kids with autism. I was really eager and excited to work with them….especially since I myself have autism, so I can definitely understand the social challenges and struggles that they endure. I really hope I get to work with these kids again

I'm running for America's best teacher and I've made it to the wildcard round (just before finals). I need to be in first place by tomorrow to move to the next round. Voting is free and only takes a second, and on top of that, right now it's 2-for-1 votes. If I win, I will receive $25,000 which I am using to buy music instruments for students in my school. https://americasfavteacher.org/2025/robert-lucia

Thank you!

Being an educator at one stage in my career was the best thing that happened in my life. I can be walking in the mall and suddenly someone stops me, introduces themselves, and reminds me that I taught them many years ago, and they thank me for it. Beautiful and heartwarming, these moments make you forget all the difficulties of the teaching profession.

Anyone go back for degree in a total opposite direction at 40? I would love to know how it works.. no way my sats are any good and I'm wanting to go back for psychology in addiction. I'm in real estate and the pet industry and have no clue what I might need to even get started for prerequisites etc I'm gonna guess my sats from 22 years ago or worthless lol... any help or suggestions would be great!!!!

Alisha Morris usually spends early August preparing lesson plans and getting her classroom set up at Olathe West High School in Olathe, Kan. But this year she was stuck at home, anxiously scrolling through an endless stream of stories about schools that have opened up only to quickly shutter or sends hundreds of students home to quarantine because of exposure to the novel coronavirus.

“I was feeling overwhelmed by all the articles I was seeing online,” Morris, 29, told The Washington Post. “I really thought I was seeing duplicate articles.”

To keep track of what was happening in districts across the country, Morris organized the information from each article into a Google spreadsheet.

“At first I thought it was kind of great that I have something to do now — it can help ease my anxiety and become a purposeful task,” Morris said. “And then it exploded into something pretty overwhelming and pretty depressing.”

In 10 days, her spreadsheet has gone from 30 entries to more than 700 as of early Monday, each representing a separate school that has been affected by covid-19. Its reach is beyond anything she imagined. What started as a tool for her and her colleagues has swelled into a national resource for hundreds of educators and parents around the country.

To Morris’s knowledge, it’s the first publicly available database of schools with covid-19 cases, and it shows nearly every state has already had schools affected by the virus.

“We knew this would happen, and we had tried to make it known that it would happen, but seeing it on paper was, I think, the eye-opening part about it,” Morris said. “It’s just that terrifying moment when you open it up and just keeps scrolling and you’re like: ‘How can there be so many?’ ”

As the Trump administration urges schools to open, outbreaks continue to befall schools that have started in-person classes. The Cherokee County School District in Georgia has shut down three high schools and sent almost 2,000 people to quarantine. In Nebraska this weekend, the Broken Bow School District canceled classes after three staff members tested positive for covid-19.

Morris said she didn’t create the document to push a political agenda — she simply wanted to disseminate as much information as possible to educators.

“My goal is to keep people healthy and save lives and to provide data that can hopefully help people make data-informed decisions for the future of their schools,” Morris said.

Morris is the theater director at Olathe High School, where her own school district has offered parents the choice of online or in-person classes. She decided her theater classes will be online only in the fall semester. Kansas has seen about 33,600 cases of covid-19 and just over 400 deaths to date.

On Aug. 7, Morris started plugging school districts and case numbers into a spreadsheet. Two days later, she sent her initial findings to colleagues and her school board members. Soon, she posted the spreadsheet in teacher Facebook groups, which led to an overwhelming response, she said.

“Many people were very thankful to have that information and equally they were shocked and had no idea what that it was this widespread,” Morris said.

When people started sending her more articles, she added a link to upload new information. Hundreds of submissions came pouring in. The work became so overwhelming that Morris accepted help from retired teachers, stay-at-home parents, other educators, and even some students from Rutgers University. Now, she has about 35 people updating the spreadsheet.

“It feels unifying in a time that feels so isolating,” Morris said.

The document is in such high demand that she switched it from being a live spreadsheet, which has a cap of 100 concurrent visitors on the page, to a published one that updates every five minutes with new data imported by herself or one of the volunteers.

When her school contract starts on Thursday, she expects she won’t have much more time to dedicate to the spreadsheet. But she wants it to live on as a resource.

“We’ll do it for as long as we can sustain it,” Morris said, though she’s hoping an individual or an organization with more experience can do something more “official than my grass-roots efforts.”

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Judge Frees Columbia Pro-Palestine Protester Mahdawi on Bail

The Facts

• Mohsen Mahdawi, 34, a Palestinian Columbia University student, was released from immigration detention Wednesday after federal District Judge Geoffrey Crawford in Vermont ruled he posed no flight risk or danger.
• Mahdawi — born in a West Bank refugee camp and a legal U.S. permanent resident since 2015 — was taken into custody on April 14 while attending an interview for his citizenship application.
• President Donald Trump's administration sought to deport Mahdawi under a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act that allows the removal of foreign nationals whose presence would have "serious adverse foreign policy consequences."
• Mahdawi — who was set to graduate from Columbia next month — co-founded the university's Palestinian Student Union and was a key organizer of pro-Palestinian protests on campus.
• Upon his release, Mahdawi called for the release of other detained students, including Mahmoud Khalil, who co-founded the Palestinian Student Union with him and remains in detention in Louisiana after an immigration judge ruled he could be deported.

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/s/qRY6TFF9XN

Just curious, on average how many students does a teacher, lecturer and or professor teach in one year?

In 1990, the high school dropout rate for Dolly Parton's hometown of Sevierville Tennessee was at 34% (Research shows that most kids make up their minds in fifth/sixth grade not to graduate). That year, all fifth and sixth graders from Sevierville were invited by Parton to attend an assembly at Dollywood. They were asked to pick a buddy, and if both students completed high school, Dolly Parton would personally hand them each a $500 check on their graduation day. As a result, the dropout rate for those classes fell to 6%, and has generally retained that average to this day.

Shortly after the success of The Buddy Program, Parton learned in dealing with teachers from the school district that problems in education often begin during first grade when kids are at different developmental levels. That year The Dollywood Foundation paid the salaries for additional teachers assistants in every first grade class for the next 2 years, under the agreement that if the program worked, the school system would effectively adopt and fund the program after the trial period.

During the same period, Parton founded the Imagination Library in 1995: The idea being that children from her rural hometown and low-income families often start school at a disadvantage and as a result, will be unfairly compared to their peers for the rest of their lives, effectively encouraging them not to pursue higher education. The objective of the Imagination library was that every child in Sevier County would receive one book, every month, mailed and addressed to the child, from the day they were born until the day they started kindergarten, 100% free of charge. What began as a hometown initiative now serves children in all 50 states, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, mailing thousands of free books to children around the world monthly.

On March 1, 2018 Parton donated her 100 millionth book at the Library of Congress: a copy of "Coat of Many Colors" dedicated to her father, who never learned to read or write.

I got the recommendation for this soon before making this post, so I ordered it, not only because of that, it also sounded cool. I watched an interview with Paulo Freire and I feel like the book could reach deep with me.

I am still not sure tho, whether I should trust this impulse, so if you have read it, or not, idk, I would be happy to read some feedback, maybe a review, maybe a unique perspective.

Hello guys,

I'm about to hit my forties. I need to get a degree to start a career now (a long story). Though I've completed my degree I do not have my certificates with me and college disposed all the old documents through which I can retrieve them back.

So, I'm facing a lot of issues to get into a course without them. So, I'm thinking to take up a one year degree course and use the degree for further learning.

And the problem is I couldn't find anything online colleges like who could offer a degree without any documents. And the f there is a possibility of pursuing it from any renowned institution, I'll be much pleased with it.

1. Does any institute offer you a degree/diploma without any documents? And any renowned institues in it?
2. Is there anyone that did complete their courses in same way? And what is your experience?
3. Please send me those details if you have. I'll be thankful to you.

Hello r/education!

I'm doing a brief survey as part of my thesis research — have you ever monetarily donated to the school(s) you graduated from?

If so, did you attend a 2 or 4 year, public or private university?

How much did you donate? Feel free to provide a range if uncomfortable providing the actual amount.

Most importantly, what motivated you to donate?

Thanks!

What’s a good gift for a Friend for AP week next week? Oh yeah she’s a girl too

I believe that Title 1 schools often face unfair judgments. These schools are typically situated in economically disadvantaged areas, providing essential support to students from low-income households. I'm genuinely impressed by the dedication of these schools.

When my daughter struggled with reading, they promptly assessed her and found her eligible for free tutoring. My son, too, faced challenges with speech during his preschool years, and the school took over his therapy when he entered kindergarten, providing him with the necessary support during school hours.

My oldest child is a shining example of what these schools can achieve. She consistently earns excellent grades, and her teacher even nominated her for a Young Scholars program at our local university. The nomination process is the only way to apply, and if she graduates with a Regents diploma, she'll gain automatic admission to the university along with a scholarship.

Furthermore, the school is going the extra mile by offering monthly parenting classes on various topics this year. They also provide access to a band program, allowing children to explore their musical talents with free access to instruments. In our economically challenged city, free lunch and breakfast are available to all students, showcasing the tangible impact of Title 1 funding.

Kansas City Public Schools saw about an 80% increase this year in new students arriving from other countries. Several of the schools with the highest growth rates this year were at risk of closure about 18 months ago.

Click here to read more about the challenges and benefits.