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Social Sciences Mar 4, 2024

Navigating special education labels is complex, and it matters for education equity

The Ontario Ministry of Education's special education policy and resource guide provides instructions to school boards and schools on administering special education programs.

Environment Feb 29, 2024

Study uncovers the influence of the livestock industry on climate policy through university partnerships

The livestock industry's impact on climate change has long been a subject of concern, as detailed in the 2006 United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization's 390-page report "Livestock's Long Shadow." The report provided ...

Environment Feb 27, 2024

Unveiling the sustainability landscape in cultural organizations: A global benchmark

Are museums, theaters, and opera houses truly walking the talk when it comes to social and environmental sustainability? The University of Lausanne (UNIL) delved into this pressing question, conducting an international survey ...

Social Sciences Feb 20, 2024

From bridge to chess, why men outperform women at 'mindsports'

Why do men strongly outperform women at "mindsports" such as chess and bridge? Mindsports mainly use the brain and require skills such as memory, critical thinking, problem solving, strategic planning, mental discipline and ...

Social Sciences Feb 16, 2024

A Bronx school district offers lessons in boosting student mental health

If you are an educator or a parent, you have likely already seen many ways in which "the kids are not alright."

Education Feb 15, 2024

Study finds Massachusetts school desegregation program benefits K-12 students

A new study has found that a long-standing voluntary school desegregation program in Massachusetts has a significant positive impact on the urban students who take part in it.

Social Sciences Feb 13, 2024

The San people of southern Africa: Where ethics codes for researching indigenous people could fail them

There is a long and often complicated history of researchers studying Indigenous people. In 1999, the education scholar Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, in her book "Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, "emphasized ...

Economics & Business Jan 31, 2024

New organizational resilience index to improve supply chain resilience

Researchers from the University of Sheffield, led by Professor Lenny Koh, in collaboration with Rolls-Royce have unveiled a comprehensive approach to quantifying and enhancing organizational resilience. In a paper, titled ...

Social Sciences Jan 18, 2024

Survey offers insights on childlessness and childcare in the UK

A comprehensive new survey reveals the changing face of UK families amid recent economic, social, and political turmoil.

Social Sciences Jan 18, 2024

Connecting researchers and legislators can lead to policies that reflect scientific evidence

Like most kids of the 1990s, I attended a school that used the original DARE program as a cornerstone initiative in the war on drugs. Congressional funding for this Drug Abuse Resistance Education program surged to over US$10 ...

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