Four-day school week may not be best for students, review finds
A new University of Oregon review of 11 studies has found little evidence that the four-day school week benefits student academic performance, attendance, behavior or graduation rates.
A new University of Oregon review of 11 studies has found little evidence that the four-day school week benefits student academic performance, attendance, behavior or graduation rates.
Education
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Colleges and universities are struggling to stay afloat.
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The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of 250 million years. Its source was the spiral galaxy UGC 11397, which resides in the constellation ...
Astronomy
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New research, which has reviewed major U.K. political parties' past manifestos, finds they all lack the boldness needed to tackle the structural roots of inequality and significantly raise people out of poverty.
Economics & Business
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Only 9% of Canadian students learn about climate change often in school, while 42% say it's rarely or never discussed in the classroom.
Education
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A study from The University of Notre Dame Australia, published in the Journal of Adolescence, has found that outdoor adventure education plays a powerful role in supporting the mental health and personal development of young ...
Social Sciences
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday it is delaying by one month the planned cutoff of satellite data that helps forecasters track hurricanes.
Environment
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a greater abundance of extremely faint and distant galaxies than ever before. Using Webb's crisp near-infrared ...
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New research led by experts from The University of Manchester's Institute of Education has shed important light on how the mental well-being of young people is affected by the neighborhoods they live in.
Social Sciences
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Since Wall Street's "fear index" spiked in April, even casual investors have watched it nervously for signs of whether to buy, hold, or run for their lives.
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