OpinionMarch 14, 2021
How We Got More Than 10,000 Students from 120 Countries to Embrace the Joy of Coding
Stanford is offering its popular computer science intro course for free—and you can help teach it
Stories by Lisa Einstein
Lisa Einstein was a Peace Corps volunteer in Guinea from 2016 to 2018. Her career since returning from the Peace Corps has focused on expanding access to impactful digital tools and mitigating harms from emerging technologies.
OpinionFebruary 1, 2021
Why AI Needs to Be Able to Understand All the World’s Languages
The benefits of mobile technology are not accessible to most of the world’s 700 million illiterate people
OpinionMay 18, 2020
If We’re Not Careful, Tech Could Hurt the Fight against COVID-19
Here are four questions we need to ask ourselves
OpinionMarch 31, 2020
Help Profs Teach Stanford’s Popular, and Now Free, Online Intro to Coding Course
I signed up to be a volunteer section leader. You can, too! But do it ASAP
OpinionFebruary 26, 2020
A Vision of AI for Joyful Education
Here’s how we can avert the dangers and maximize the benefits of this powerful but still emerging technology
PolicyJune 15, 2018
Dear Dad
A message of gratitude for Father's Day
PolicyMay 1, 2018
Unleashing the Energy Trapped within Undereducated Girls
The energy within undereducated girls must be unleashed
The SciencesApril 4, 2018
Physics Inferno
A poem describes what could happen to those who don’t follow the metaphorical equivalents of nature's most basic laws
BehaviorMarch 2, 2018
The Day My School Was Attacked--with Rocks
As a teacher, I can promise you the outcome would have been very different if the assailants had been carrying firearms
Space & PhysicsDecember 26, 2017
What Would You Ask an Astronaut on the Space Station?
Here’s what 20 students in a remote west African village, ages 10 to 17, came up with
PolicyOctober 11, 2017
Mass–Energy Equivalence and the Power of Girls
In recognition of the International Day of the Girl, a new take on E=mc2
PolicyAugust 14, 2017
Defending Girls' Right to Learn Is Why I Joined the Peace Corps
A volunteer explains—with poetry—why teaching physics to girls in Guinea, west Africa is so important to her
The SciencesJune 5, 2017
A Letter to My High School Physics Teacher
On his retirement after 37 years of masterful teaching
EarthApril 19, 2017
Consider That Pale Blue Dot [Video]
A rap video for Earth Day
CultureOctober 11, 2016
Girls Can't Do Math or Science?
A music video celebrating the International Day of the Girl destroys that tired old stereotype