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Confronting male stereotypes in the classroom

Sometimes men just don’t like football. Writer and teacher Okechukwu Nzelu decides to be himself in front of his students.

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Getting around the rules of sex education

What should we and shouldn’t we teach our teens about sex, inside and outside of the classroom?

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The art of soundproof design

Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.

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Out of the mouth trap

After 15 years of speech therapy, Jonty Claypole decided to make peace with his stammer. He explores our fear of disfluency, revealing how accepting it could actually increase our creativity and persuasiveness.

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  • Physiology classroom, Guy's Hospital.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: nurses taking notes in a classroom. Photograph, 1921.
  • A woman on a throne in a classroom; representing grammar. Etching by C. Schut.
  • Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: students being taught in a classroom. Photograph, c. 1933.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: a Swedish exhibit of a children's classroom. Photograph, 1904.
  • The anti-malaria school, Nettuno, Italy: a wooden mosquito breeding cage in a classroom. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: students being taught in a laboratory-style classroom. Photograph, c. 1933.
  • Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: students being taught in a laboratory-style classroom. Photograph, c. 1933.
  • A classroom with children sitting at long tables and a teacher standing with a book in her hand. Lithograph by J.B. Sonde.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: an Argentinian exhibit relating to manual skills education, showing classroom seating, carpentry tools and student work. Photograph, 1904.
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