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Education saves lives: New study reveals global link between learning and longevity
A major international study involving researchers from The University of Manchester has found that education is one of the strongest predictors of how long people live. Using a new statistical approach to overcome gaps in ...
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New study reveals how video games support children's well-being
A study published this month in Reading Research Quarterly is challenging the long-held stereotype of the sedentary gamer. In their new paper, Dr. Fiona Scott, Dr. Liz Chesworth, Dr. Cath Bannister, Daniel Kuria, Shabana ...
Social Sciences
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Rethinking augmented reality for children: Study finds key design gap
For decades, technology in schools meant desktop computers and basic digital instruction. Today, more immersive tools are beginning to reach children, changing how they interact with information and their surroundings. As ...
Education
Apr 22, 2026
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Understanding incel culture, and how schools can address it
Incels—involuntary celibates—believe they have been unconditionally excluded from the dating market and are doomed to remain virgins. This has negative implications for their mood and self-esteem, as well as the women and ...
Social Sciences
Apr 22, 2026
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Lessons from Finland: Researcher reveals gaps in special education math instruction
Students with special needs are often missing out on critical areas of math instruction—especially data processing, statistics and probability—raising concerns about their readiness for real-world problem-solving. A new study ...
Education
Apr 22, 2026
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Using escape rooms to promote student engagement
A group of Monash University researchers have come up with a novel and highly successful way to get tertiary students to engage with both the course content and their peers, revealing that using an escape room scenario led ...
Education
Apr 22, 2026
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Improving scientific accuracy in journalism
Journalists bring scientific findings to the public, and to policymakers, who often rely on media reports rather than primary literature to provide context for policymaking. However, media reports can and often do distort ...
Education
Apr 21, 2026
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Screen-driven schooling is rewiring how students think, read, write and learn
In the 2022/2023 academic year, according to figures from the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, 92% of public secondary schools in Spain had virtual learning environments that students could access with ...
Education
Apr 21, 2026
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High school journalism leading the way in financial literacy, even if business isn't part of curriculum
Journalism classes are usually not paired with business lessons. While there have been calls for increasing business knowledge in journalism, research from the University of Kansas has found that high school journalists are ...
Education
Apr 21, 2026
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One daily habit is quietly shaping preschool language, and it is not just screen time
Young children who spend more time on screen-based activities and less time talking with adults tend to have weaker language skills, according to a recent study from the University of Tartu. The findings highlight that daily ...
Social Sciences
Apr 21, 2026
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Promoting communication in English among students learning English as a foreign language
Language skills like reading, writing, listening, and speaking are essential for effective communication in English and are closely linked to educational and professional success both locally and internationally. In many ...
Education
Apr 20, 2026
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Q&A: Expert discusses AI, automation drive autonomous science origin in scientific research
Rob Moore is a recognized leader in the development of autonomous science and self-driving laboratories at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). A Tennessee native who spent five years as ...
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Apr 20, 2026
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Interior designers help students see that meaningful design begins with understanding people
At the School of Design, interior design faculty Elif and Alp Tural teach students how empathy, accessibility, and well-being can shape the spaces designers create. After earning their degrees at Arizona State University, ...
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2026
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It's a myth that baby boys are less social than girls: A new look at decades of research
Girls and boys are equally social at birth.
Education
Apr 20, 2026
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Schools must do more than box-ticking to support Indigenous kids, shows report
An Indigenous-led study of Perth primary schools has found that educators often rely on symbolic gestures rather than meaningful action to support Aboriginal children at school, prompting calls for Noongar storytelling, ceremony ...
Education
Apr 20, 2026
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The truth about child IQ: Research shows it fluctuates and may be an unreliable predictor of future success
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is arguably the most celebrated child prodigy in history, composing his first pieces of music aged five, his first symphony at eight and his first opera at 11. After a study in 1993 found that listening ...
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2026
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What Canada, the UK and other G7 nations learned about building resilient education systems during the pandemic
By a dictionary definition, the word resilient means an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. The key words here? "Recover" and "change."
Education
Apr 20, 2026
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Costly school uniforms a barrier to education for some Kiwi kids
The cost of school uniforms is proving a barrier to education for secondary students in Aotearoa, with some missing school because they don't have a full uniform, a study from the University of Otago, Wellington—Ōtākou Whakaihu ...
Economics & Business
Apr 20, 2026
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Why anatomy's naughtiest mnemonics work so well
Some lovers try positions that they can't handle—I'm referring to the bones of the wrist, of course. The phrase is a classic mnemonic used to remember the eight carpal (wrist) bones—scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform, ...
Education
Apr 19, 2026
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Prenatal opioid exposure in babies doesn't predict future classroom performance, study finds
Every 25 minutes in the United States, a baby is diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a condition that occurs in newborns who have been exposed to opioids in the womb and develop withdrawal after birth, according ...
Education
Apr 18, 2026
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