This week, we learned …
… there’s a frogpocalypse in South Florida, and a new population of critically endangered tigers has been discovered in Thailand.

Photograph by Steve Winter, National Geographic
Where else have cane toads wreaked havoc?
Where are the world’s tiger ranges?
… one high school’s lesson for helping English Language Learners get to college.

How does your brain navigate language?
… travel advice for spies.

Photograph courtesy the New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain
Have spies not followed travel advice?
… five ways college teachers can improve their instruction.

Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart and Donald McBain, National Geographic
Can a college mascot improve teaching?
… a Guyana tribe is going high-tech to protect its land.

Photo by Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil CC-BY-3.0
How else are indigenous South Americans working to protect their land?
… how to teach yourself physics and math.
Use math skills to help solve explorers’ engineering problems.
… how stations on the London Underground got their names.
What’s the London Underground?
… rural districts are moving to four-day school weeks, and kids still prefer paper books to screens.

Photograph by Richard Hewitt Stewart, National Geographic
Enjoy a diverse reading list for kids!
… Utah has the highest rate of upward mobility in America, some of the best social services, and one of the smallest state governments.

… cold-water coral reefs may stand up to climate change.

Photograph by NOAA/MBARI. Public domain