Education Story Briefs

A collection of stories to support teaching and learning.

With his parents urging him to focus on whatever would help him succeed in Britain's public school system, Alan Turing followed his own desire to stud...

A GED® teacher's experience with a lesson plan bridging science to U.S. history

In this image we take a virtual visit to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris.  Including reading rooms designed by Henri Labrous...

Surviving over nine feet of snow in Boston

How Captain Cook changed the way Hawaiians lived.

The founder of AwesomeStories, Carole Bos, tells us how it all started and how AwesomeStories can help YOU!

This artist's conception depicts a view of how it may appear as the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft orbits Saturn.

Scientists have mapped-out the octopus genome! A villain in "Penguins of Madagascar," Dave is an octopus who changes form. A very intelligent inverteb...

This image depicts a page from the "Deeds of Alexander the Great" (Alexandri Magni Historia) also known as Manuscript (Cod. Lat. 161).  This impo...

Emily Hobhouse, a young British woman who witnessed conditions in concentration camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, included the following passage...

Is math the world's universal language? Can we understand the natural world by using math? Discover the stories behind five "beautiful equations."

Follett, a family-owned business serving the education industry, was started by Charles Montgomery (C.M.) Barnes in 1873.

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