Nancy Latham is the executive director of the Council on Teacher Education and an associate dean in the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Latham spoke with News Bureau education editor Sharita ...
Education
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Ten high school teachers spent a week at MIT in July designing and making Frankensteel, a self-healing material inspired by the villain in the Terminator 2 movie. Next up: they aim to recreate the calculations and experiments ...
Materials Science
Aug 29, 2022
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One in five students in the United States will not earn a high school diploma—and young adolescents who fall behind in school risk never catching up, leading to unemployment, poor health and poverty, research has shown.
Education
Jun 15, 2022
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Education
May 30, 2022
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Interventions that seek to evoke empathy in teachers can sideline biases and narrow the racial gap in suspensions of middle school students, suggests new research from the University of California, Berkeley.
Education
Mar 23, 2022
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The annual Black History month school assemblies is fading away with February. The 2022 theme picked by the Canadian government for Black History Month, "February and Forever: Celebrating Black History today and every day," ...
Social Sciences
Mar 1, 2022
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At the start of each university year, we ask first-year students a question: how many have been told by their secondary teachers not to use Wikipedia? Without fail, nearly every hand shoots up. Wikipedia offers free and reliable ...
Education
Nov 5, 2021
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"Your teacher was wrong!" It's a phrase many a high school or university student has heard. As practicing and former science teachers, we have been challenged with this accusation before.
Education
Aug 12, 2021
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The intent of school desegregation is clear: Black and white children should attend the same schools, and Black children should not be relegated to inferior buildings, learning materials and extracurricular activities.
Education
Jul 28, 2021
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It's easy to catch but often difficult to detect. Some cases are mild, while some are dangerous. Some of us are more capable of fighting it off.
Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2021
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