Sep. 8, 2016 Traditional age-based grade levels may be hampering the progress of millions of K-12 students in the United States and should be a target for reform, according to a new ...
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Sep. 8, 2016 A new study indicates that undergraduates who participate in mentored research not only graduate more often with science degrees, but also attend graduate school and pursue STEM careers at higher ...
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Sep. 7, 2016 Local school board elections increasingly are becoming a national political battleground, as millions of dollars in campaign cash pours in from out-of-state donors in the name of education reform, ...
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Sep. 6, 2016 Steering new college students into remedial classes can boost a poorly prepared student's chances of success, but doesn't appear to benefit students with a stronger academic background, ...
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Sep. 2, 2016 New research from Loughborough University has revealed many four-year-olds are not physically ready to start school. ...
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Aug. 31, 2016 The specific cultural values of a country may determine whether concern about environmental issues actually leads individuals to engage in environmentally friendly behaviors, according to the new ...
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Aug. 31, 2016 A group of researchers has found a way for schools, professors, textbook publishers, and educational researchers to check the quality of their test questions that turns out to be both fast and cheap. ...
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Aug. 23, 2016 Faculty teaching in the STEM disciplines at large research universities are devising their own systems to collect instructional data from their classrooms and using that data to inform their ...
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Aug. 23, 2016 While guaranteed-tuition laws, such as the one in Illinois, may provide predictability for incoming in-state students for their first four years, these mandates inadvertently trigger substantial ...
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Aug. 19, 2016 There are as many motives as there are undergraduates taking introductory science courses, but if you look closely at groups of freshmen science students such as those from underrepresented minority ...
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Aug. 18, 2016 Giving special treatment to young urban black males in the high school classroom runs the risk of shortchanging these students academically once they get to college, indicates a new ...
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Aug. 16, 2016 Armed with a new list of words and using the power of social media, a new study has found that by the age of 20, a native English-speaking American knows 42,000 dictionary ...
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Aug. 12, 2016 The problem of persistence has long troubled undergraduate programs hoping to guide promising students from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups into science careers, but a new study by science ...
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Aug. 10, 2016 Natural smarts can only take a child so far if they are also attending a poor school, according to new educational ...
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Aug. 10, 2016 Well before starting to speak, children from a very young age pay higher attention to the information received from native speakers of their language compared to the information received from ...
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Aug. 9, 2016 The first study to look at the impact of the relationship with teachers on adolescent behavior finds that a positive teacher-student relationship can be as effective as anti-bullying programs at ...
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Aug. 8, 2016 Researchers have developed a new method for observing and measuring teacher interaction with every child in a classroom. As a result of testing this method within K-3 classrooms, they found that ...
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Aug. 8, 2016 A new study reveals that a brain region dedicated to reading has connections necessary for that skill even before children learn to read. By scanning the brains of children before and after they ...
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Aug. 8, 2016 Most grade school students are likely to claim recess as their favorite period of the day; however, in many cases recess still can be sedentary with students not engaging in enough physical activity. ...
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Aug. 4, 2016 Researchers have discovered that preschoolers who better process words associated with numbers and understand the quantities associated with these words are more likely to have success with math when ...
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