In this month's edition of Physics World, Paula Findlen from Stanford University profiles Laura Bassi—an emblematic and influential physicist from the 18th century who can be regarded as the first ever woman to forge a ...
General Physics
Aug 29, 2013
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When Frances E. Anderson saw the latest math scores for America's fourth- and eighth-graders, she was hardly surprised that they had dropped. Until recently—including the period of remote instruction during the pandemic—Anderson ...
Mathematics
Nov 3, 2022
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A research team from the Botanical Garden and Department of Experimental and Social Sciences Education of the Faculty of Teacher Training of the University of Valencia warns of the risk of pseudoscience in relation with myths ...
Other
Feb 19, 2021
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Mobile devices as teaching tools are becoming a more and more common part of the American education experience in classrooms, from preschool through graduate school. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 58% of U.S. ...
Social Sciences
Mar 31, 2015
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Glenys Oberg is a Ph.D. student and research assistant at the School of Education of the University of Queensland. A former teacher, she focuses in her research on trauma-informed pedagogy and practice.
Education
Apr 19, 2023
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Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math pass on to female students the stereotype that boys, not girls, are good at math. Girls who endorse this belief then do worse at math, research at the University ...
Social Sciences
Jan 25, 2010
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There's just over a week to go before term one starts across the country—except in Queensland which has pushed back the start of the school year. We are yet to see states and territory plans for how to open schools safely, ...
Education
Jan 20, 2022
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The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) released a report on Australian students' sense of belonging in school in May. It described as "disturbing" some of the differences in Australian students' sense of belonging ...
Social Sciences
Aug 3, 2018
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Physicists at University of California, Riverside, have designed an experiment to explain the concept of magnetic resonance. The project was carried out by undergraduate students in collaboration with local high school teachers.
General Physics
Dec 6, 2019
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(AP) -- Mathematics. It's a subject that can elicit groans and exclamations of "boring." But Glen Whitney, a former hedge-fund quantitative analyst, is betting he can change that with a formula that looks like this: math ...
Mathematics
Apr 22, 2011
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