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contributed by Beth Rush When students say they want to work in health care, they often default to roles they already recognize, such as nursing or medicine. Medical imaging is less visible, even though it offers defined training pathways, stable employment, and daily patient interaction. Making these roles explicit helps students evaluate options based on fit rather than familiarity. What Medical Imaging Actually Involves Medical imaging professionals produce diagnostic images that support clinical decision-making. Like most specialized industries, it often includes operating specialized equipment. Following strict safety protocols is obviously important, as is ensuring images meet clinical standards. Skills That…

Honoring Diverse Holidays In Your eLearning Course Did you know that highly specific holiday references in an eLearning course can unintentionally exclude learners who don’t observe the same holiday? If holidays are presented under a single cultural lens, it could signal that the course is built for some people more than others. So, how do you avoid that in an online classroom with a global reach and a diverse audience? The key is to integrate holiday inclusivity thoughtfully into your offerings. Leverage this festive period as an opportunity to take stock and re-evaluate how holiday elements are used in your…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter School choice — the idea that American education would function more efficiently and effectively if parents received public funding to send their children to private and religious schools — is commonly traced to an influential essay written in 1955 by conservative economist and Nobel laureate Milton Friedman. It has provoked animated debate between adversaries on the political right and the political left ever since. Less well known is that school choice also has roots in the work of Derrick Bell, considered by many the father…

J Kabbany, TCF A judge ruled against UCLA lecturer Gordon Klein, who was suspended after refusing to grade black students leniently in the wake of George Floyd’s death, siding with UCLA on…

Hybrid Research Mentoring Program: Redesign While designing and evaluating a hybrid research-mentoring program for high school students, I discovered a critical flaw in the traditional model: students whose initial research proposals fell short of the required standards were simply eliminated from the process, usually without receiving clear, structured, and actionable feedback. This early exclusion not only crushed their motivation but also deprived them of the chance to learn from their mistakes genuinely. To close this gap, I created the “Proposal Revision Loop”—a feedback-driven, iterative learning model rooted in David Kolb’s experiential learning cycle (1984). In Iran, the program was implemented…

Why You Need Adobe Connect For Scalability When Training Global Teams As businesses grow and their teams spread across different locations and time zones, they face a big challenge: keeping training consistent, engaging, and effective for all employees. It’s only logical that a training program designed for a small and local group won’t work for hundreds or thousands of employees who need training all at once and are scattered across the globe. Companies often try to scale up their existing training programs but find that it’s unsuccessful. Learners may lose interest, participation may drop, and the training may no longer…

Die Hard is a Christ­mas movie. That once-con­trar­i­an cat­e­go­riza­tion has increas­ing­ly been accept­ed over the past cou­ple of decades, at least since an edi­tor with whom I’ve often worked first declared it in a Slate roundup. As a result, John McTier­nan’s stur­dy piece of one-build­ing eight­ies Hol­ly­wood action may have dis­placed It’s a Won­der­ful Life as a hol­i­day home-video tra­di­tion in cer­tain house­holds. But it’s also stoked a broad­er desire for ever more alter­na­tive Christ­mas movies with sub­tle, even sub­ver­sive hol­i­day ele­ments. If you, too, can’t han­dle yet anoth­er view­ing of Mir­a­cle on 34th Street, A Christ­mas Sto­ry, or Home Alone this…

Karl Hille, Balt. Sun Two years after the Supreme Court effectively ended race-conscious college admissions nationwide, Johns Hopkins University has seen a significant change in the racial…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Budget cuts, staffing reductions and school consolidations are coming to Los Angeles Unified as the cash-strapped district works to balance its shrinking budget, a top school official said.  LAUSD’s chief financial officer in an interview last week said declining enrollments and the end of pandemic relief funds have forced the district to take cost-cutting measures.   Schools have already been notified of how much they will have to cut from their budgets. The cuts will go into effect starting in August.  LAUSD officials in June had predicted a $1.6…

When dis­cussing a musi­cian like Fela Kuti, many of our usu­al terms fail us. They fail us, that is, if we came of age in a musi­cal cul­ture in which artists and bands put out an album of ten or so lyrics-for­ward songs every two or three years, pro­mot­ing it on tour while also play­ing their biggest hits. Fela — as all his fans refer to him — could put out six or sev­en albums in a sin­gle year, and refused to play live any mate­r­i­al he’d already record­ed. Even the word song, as we know it, does­n’t quite reflect…