Education

For today’s college students the idea of education as “culture” may be dead. Why? Maybe because rapidly changing technology keeps us looking forward instead of backward in order to keep up with it? Or maybe because our fragmented society has...

A new report conducted by UNESCO estimates that nearly 60 million people could avoid poverty if all adults had just two more years of schooling. It adds that poverty would end for 420 million people if all adults completed secondary...

Since 2010, the Coccia-Inserra Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Teaching of Italian has recognized teachers across the nation. Now it's your turn to apply for this prestigious award!

As the class of 2020 begins college and a young writer prepares to enter university, she reflects on the unique aspects of the American ritual of leaving home for school, and how it affects both parents and children alike as...

Vincenzo Morlini is the CEO of American Field Service, responsible for more than 13,000 students studying all over the world. “Italy’s future depends on having well-educated young people who speak more than one language and have the confidence to compete...

The number of international migrants is actually at a faster growing rate than that of the world’s population: United Nations Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson has confirmed that there are 20 million refugees in the world and 244 million migrants,...