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Logic models are a visual representation of your program. They display the resources available for your program, the short and long-term goals for your trainees and the activities that you have ...

In her mid twenties, Yesi Ortiz was starting an exciting career as a radio host. At home, she was the new legal guardian of her six nieces and nephews. Our Slate colleague David Plotz discusses recent ...

The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them. By Lisa Friedman ...

Universities are no strangers to innovating with technology. EdTech wouldn’t exist if that weren’t true. But colleges were truly at the forefront when it came to the development of computer science.

One evening in the early 1970s, Michael Pachovas and a few friends wheeled themselves to a curb in Berkeley, Calif., poured cement into the form of a crude ramp, and rolled off into the night. 1 For ...

More than 30 years ago, a standoff with a white separatist family in Idaho led to federal rules on deadly use of force. Some ...

More than 3 million newly-released pages of the Epstein files show more about the life and relationships of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. They also contain unredacted names of his accusers.