News tagged with school students
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, ...
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May 24, 2012 |
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Rubber chicken flies into solar radiation storm
Last month, when the sun unleashed the most intense radiation storm since 2003, peppering satellites with charged particles and igniting strong auroras around both poles, a group of high school students in ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Should teachers and students be Facebook friends?
(AP) -- Should students and teachers ever be friends on Facebook? School districts across the country, including the nation's largest, are weighing that question as they seek to balance the risks of inappropriate ...
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Same-ethnicity mentors boost students' commitment to STEM careers
Youths from African American, Native American, and Latino backgrounds are underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (known as STEM subjects). Although having a mentor of the same ethnicity ...
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Apr 17, 2012 |
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Math teachers demonstrate a bias toward white male students
While theories about race, gender, and math ability among high school students have long been debated, a recent study found that math teachers are in fact, unjustifiably biased toward their white male students. This study ...
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Apr 16, 2012 |
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Study: Reasons for suspension and expulsion complex, race still central
An Indiana University study presented on Friday at the American Educational Research Association meeting in Vancouver shows that race continues to be an important factor in determining who receives out-of-school ...
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Apr 13, 2012 |
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Charter schools spend more on administration than traditional public schools
While charter school advocates criticize public school bureaucracies as bloated and wasteful, it turns out that charters spend more on administration and less on instruction than traditional public schools, according to a ...
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Apr 13, 2012 |
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Charter schools no cure-all for black students, says study
(Phys.org) -- Despite being promoted as a viable alternative to traditional public schools, privately owned charter schools in Texas have higher attrition rates for black students than comparable urban public schools, says ...
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Apr 12, 2012 |
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Teachers think white females lag behind in math, study finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- High school math teachers tend to rate white female students’ math abilities lower than those of their white male peers, even when their grades and test scores are comparable, according to a University ...
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Apr 05, 2012 |
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NASA GRAIL returns first student-selected moon images
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade students from the Emily Dickinson ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 23, 2012 |
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High school math teachers may not make the grade when it comes to gender bias
Do some high school teachers think math is harder for girls than boys? The authors of a new study say yes.
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Mar 22, 2012 |
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Middle school boys who are reluctant readers value reading more after using e-readers: study
Middle school boys rated reading more valuable as an activity after two months of using an e-reader, according to a new study.
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Mar 22, 2012 |
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New report finds low family income not a major reason for poor student achievement
Family income is associated with student achievement, but careful studies show little causal connection. School factors – teacher quality, school accountability, school choice – have bigger causal impacts than family ...
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Mar 12, 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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Green schools and students' science scores are related
A nationwide survey shows a positive correlation between Green School practices and student achievement in science. The study was conducted by the University of Colorado Denver's Department of Geography and Environmental ...
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Feb 29, 2012 |
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