The following post was initially published on Education Week’s global learning blog, curated by the Asia Society. By Nelson Graves Menacing. Predatory. Dangerous. Bad. That’s how the wolf is depicted in many stories that parents read to their children in...
By Pauline Bock I’m what they call a “millennial.” I am also a journalist. So of course I read it on Twitter first. “Shootings in Paris.” I didn’t have any plans on Friday night. I had to get up early the next morning and was getting ready for bed when my news...
By Colin McIntyre The deadly attacks in Paris appear to have hardened opposition in East and Central Europe to a plan to relocate thousands of migrants and refugees who have flooded into the continent this year. The plan for a quota system relocating some 120,000...
This article is part of a News-Decoder series of “decoders” that explain crucial background to big issues. For more decoders, click here. By Pauline Bock Waves of migrants and refugees are threatening one of Europe’s bedrock achievements — the...
By Nelson Graves Here at News-Decoder we take stock on Fridays and look ahead to the next week’s news themes. It’s a way of making sense of developments that in the digital age can go by in a flash and confuse more than illuminate. Here’s a note I...