Income inequality and distrust foster academic dishonesty
College professors and students are in an arms race over cheating. Students find new sources for pre-written term papers; professors find new ways to check the texts they get for plagiarized material. But why are all these ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 04, 2012 |
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App turns tablet into math aid for visually impaired students (w/ video)
Without looking down, Kira runs her index finger across the screen of an Android tablet that she is holding in her lap. For the occasion, she has painted her fingernails bright pink. When her finger touches ...
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Facebook looks to cash in on user data
Julee Morrison has been obsessed with Bon Jovi since she was a teenager. So when paid ads for fan sites started popping up on the 41-year-old Salt Lake City blogger's Facebook page, she was thrilled. She described herself ...
Apr 22, 2011 |
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Loneliness, Poor Health Appear to be Linked
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two UA studies have found that hoarding friends doesn't necessarily diminish forlorn feelings and that loneliness is a matter of perception.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 18, 2010 |
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Students with depression twice as likely to drop out of college (w/ Podcast)
(PhysOrg.com) -- College students with depression are twice as likely as their classmates to drop out of school, new research shows.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 06, 2009 |
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New direction in teaching computer science emphasizes activity, interaction, critique
Contrary to the words of a popular song, there is such a thing as the real world. Computer science faculty at Washington University in St. Louis are exposing their undergraduate students to learning in ways that prepare ...
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Early bad behaviour predicts troubled path, according to study
(PhysOrg.com) -- It seems the ill-advised roads taken early in life are mostly one-way.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 16, 2009 |
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Talking works: UB professor develops method to analyze creative problem solving
(Phys.org) -- Talk -- if it's the right kind -- can increase creativity, leading students to create useful, new ideas that solve problems, a University at Buffalo professor has found by using a statistical tool that he invented.
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May 25, 2012 |
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Report: 8th-grade students still lag in science
Eighth-graders in the U.S. are doing better in science than they were two years ago, but seven out of 10 still are not considered proficient, the federal government said Thursday.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 10, 2012 |
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US Supreme Court rejects Internet speech cases
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take two cases involving three separate incidents involving free speech protection for public school students on the Internet.
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Poland pins hopes on starry-eyed students
Starry-eyed youngsters living in the birthplace of Nicolas Copernicus have taken up celestial gazing like the father of modern astronomy, but using telescopes he could only dream of.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 01, 2012 |
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Good relationship with teacher can protect first graders from aggression
Children who have a good relationship with their teacher may be protected from expressing aggression and being the target of aggression at school. That's the key finding in a new study of Canadian first graders that appears ...
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Oct 26, 2011 |
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Preschoolers' language skills improve more when they're placed with more-skilled peers
Preschool children with relatively poor language skills improve more if they are placed in classrooms with high-achieving students, a new study found.
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Oct 26, 2011 |
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Poverty-related stress affects readiness for school
Stress in the lives of poor children is one cause of the early achievement gap in which children from low-income homes start school behind their more advantaged classmates.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Schoolchildren can also learn complex subject matters on their own
Self-directed learning has long been heralded as the key to successful education. Yet until now, there has been little research into this theory. Educational researchers at the Technical University of Munich have now shown ...
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Aug 08, 2011 |
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