Education

For generations, the Polish community in the US has built its place through language, faith, and education—from powerful Milwaukee parishes to today's more modest Saturday schools, where successive generations continue to learn Polish letters, history, and identity. Initiatives like the revived John Paul II School are becoming the last bastion of Polishness, a space for encounter, community, and hope that tradition will survive in the hearts of the youngest.

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry rewards... holes. Three scientists—Kitagawa, Robson, and Yaghi—have created metal-organic frameworks (MOFs): materials with enormous internal surface areas that can store gases, filter toxins, and "extract" water from the air. This is a breakthrough that could transform chemistry and environmental technologies.

In July 1945, two months after the end of World War II in Europe, in the Augustów Forest region, the Red Army, in cooperation with Polish security officers and soldiers of the "People's" Polish Army, carried out a military operation aimed at eliminating the independence underground operating in the area, which, among other things, defended the local population against Soviet terror.

October 12 is the day when we remember the death of Czesław Białobrzeski – theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, philosopher of science, pioneer of modern stellar models, author of about a hundred scientific papers – but also an opportunity to reflect on which of his ideas and works remain alive today.

The currently ongoing 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, organized by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, will be an unprecedented event, with a record number of 640 entrants and exceptional interest from around the world. Director Artur Szklener emphasizes the competition's artistic standard, comparable to its golden era, and its growing international prestige as a gateway to distinguished careers.

Bilingualism has many intellectual, emotional, social, and health benefits. Numerous studies on bilingualism over the past several decades confirm the positive impact of bilingual upbringing on children's development.

Good ideas are never enough. If the beautiful renaissance of American Polonia is to become a reality, resources and funding will be needed on a scale that will prevent Polonia from being remembered as only “the lost tribes” of Poland.

Since 1989, Poland has been one of the fastest growing economies in Europe. The success of Poles is due to specific solutions, innovative technologies and people. This is the result of research conducted by the “We Did It In Poland” campaign.

Editor Katarzyna Murawska was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland by President Andrzej Duda for her outstanding services to the Polish diaspora in the USA and the promotion of Polish culture. The awards ceremony took place on March 2, 2025 at the Copernicus Center in Chicago.

Thanks to the materials of Prof. Cienciała's legacy, we can not only deepen our historical knowledge, but also learn the alchemy of research work, explore the process of creating scientific works, their conceptualization, creative torments, editorial corrections, reviews - in a word: see "how the grass grows".

The curriculum reform of the Ministry of National Education under the leadership of Barbara Nowacka affects, or rather almost completely changes, the place of religious education classes in schools.