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Young Latino children show strong classroom skills, despite many growing up in poverty

Immigrant Latinos display strong parenting practices and raise socially agile children, but these early gains are likely to be eroded by mediocre schools and peer pressure in poor neighborhoods, according to findings published ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The most effective teachers are in a class of their own

These are the latest findings of research funded in primary and secondary schools by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) into what makes good teachers even better.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Teachers cutting paper usage; kids loving it

In some school classrooms, paper is becoming more of a relic than an educational staple.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Business students better equipped to evaluate peers

Peer evaluation is a touchstone of many business school classes. But does the process of rating the work of one's classmates really shape better businesspeople? A new study from Concordia's John Molson School of Business, ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UC students design a better pill bottle for the blind and visually impaired

It’s easy to see that University of Cincinnati design students Alex Broerman and Ashley Ma are on to something with their new design and prototype for a prescription-medicine pill bottle that better serves ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Findings from discipline-based education research could improve undergraduate science and engineering teaching

Discipline-based education research (DBER) has generated insights that could help improve undergraduate education in science and engineering, but these findings have not yet prompted widespread changes in teaching practice, ...

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created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

19th-century iPhone app

Modern technology has allowed us to communicate in ways that would have been unfathomable to Victorian-age English poets. Yet Alfred Tennyson, Lewis Carroll and Edgar Allan Poe — among others — would ...

Technology / Software

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The teacher is central to successful use of computers in schools

The idea of one computer per student is becoming increasingly common in the Swedish school system. The University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is now conducting several studies on the educational consequences of the so-called 1:1 ...

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created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mowing down the competition: Supermileage Team aims to break fuel barriers

(Phys.org) -- Can a car really get 3,300 miles to the gallon? The University of Michigan's Supermileage Team is on its way to proving it can—with a lawnmower engine.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Gamma ray optics: A viable tool for a new branch of scientific discovery

Scientists at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) have demonstrated for the first time that gamma rays, a highly energetic form of light produced by radioactive decay of atomic nuclei and amongst other used to ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Co-workers can be as important as supervisors for effective student internships, researcher finds

Summer internships are beginning, and career-related research from Kansas State University is helping determine what can make those internships more meaningful for students.

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created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Beyond Traditional Borders wins Science magazine's IBI Prize

Science magazine has awarded a Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction (IBI) to Rice University's hands-on engineering education program Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB) as a model for other schools. In the ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Robots in the classroom

Tore Fløan smiles at me: “In the past we competed with European organizations, but now we have the Chinese breathing down our necks,” he says.

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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