A new study by the University of Michigan's Education Policy Initiative shows Michigan's charter schools follow similar practices as the traditional public schools that their students would otherwise attend.
Social Sciences
Dec 2, 2016
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Researchers from the University of Exeter and Plymouth Marine Laboratory have studied the findings from beach litter surveys carried out over a ten year period by volunteers for the Marine Conservation Society's Beachwatch ...
Environment
Dec 2, 2016
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A greater focus on pronunciation when teaching English to new migrants could help improve their employment prospects, according to research from Victoria University of Wellington's School of Linguistics and Applied Language ...
Social Sciences
Dec 2, 2016
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"Hope this email finds you in superior spirits." So began a message that recently arrived in the inbox of Adriano Aguzzi, a neuropathologist at the University of Zurich. Although an apparently innocuous, even friendly, opening ...
Other
Dec 2, 2016
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An Imperial engineer has been discussing how the College can play a greater role in helping to formulate policy, following a recent workshop.
Environment
Dec 2, 2016
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Faced with dramatic declines in nature, governments must come prepared to urgently implement their collective commitments to global biodiversity conservation and dramatically raise their individual ambitions at the upcoming ...
Ecology
Dec 2, 2016
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A new outbreak of bird flu hit France's foie gras producers on Friday just as a ban on exports outside Europe was about to be lifted in time for the crucial holiday period.
Ecology
Dec 2, 2016
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Dutch police have returned to Italy a 2nd century marble head that was stolen from a famous archaeological site outside Rome and offered up for auction in Amsterdam.
Archaeology
Dec 2, 2016
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Recent political events and the proliferation of "fake news" and the apparent futility of fact checking in the public domain have led me to obsess about the role played by the public presentation of science. "Truth" can often ...
Other
Dec 2, 2016
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Multiple scans from the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite have been stitched together to create this complete image of Switzerland.
Earth Sciences
Dec 2, 2016
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