The Secret Teacher: ‘We’re considered well-to-do, but many of us are financially burdened’

Most teachers do not have the stomach to go into battle and fight for better conditions

‘People say they’ve never met a trans person, and I say, I bet you have’

‘When you’ve heard one transgender story, you’ve heard one transgender story’

‘Powerful’ Ted talk from Irish spinal cord activists Simone George and Mark Pollock

In their Ted talk George and Pollock explore how "climbing into the raging river of grief when tragedy strikes can be the way to get to the next place”;

What did Frances McDormand mean by an ‘inclusion rider’?

A-list actors can stipulate that ‘the world onscreen looks like the world we live in’

Opening our digital door to welcome in tech-Stasi police

Many of the ‘problems’ being sold to us by digital technologies aren’t problems at all

Golden Gate guardian builds bridge between suicide and life

California Highway Patrol man learned how talking brought people back ‘over the rail’

Sal Khan’s free online school enters the real world

Interview: Sal Khan went from tutoring his cousin to setting up Khan Academy, a not-for-profit online school. He talks about his own education, and expanding his ‘flipped learning’ worldwide

Roisin Ingle on . . . killing creativity