A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine highlights the dynamic process of learning throughout the life span and identifies frontiers in which more research is needed to pursue an even ...
Education
Oct 5, 2018
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Amrita a 13-year-old Nepali immigrant, doesn't talk much to other students in her math class because, she says, she doesn't have many friends there.
Social Sciences
Apr 28, 2014
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Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of a curation learning method and an accompanying support platform, which will cultivate the skills needed in an information-driven society for effective communication using ...
Software
Jan 24, 2014
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Migration and globalization are placing thousands of second language learners in the classrooms of teachers who lack training in language instruction. As a result, schools face the challenge of preparing educators to foster ...
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2015
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Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions and people talking over each other. From casual ...
Social Sciences
Oct 19, 2022
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Cognitive and computer scientists at the University of Toronto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies have found child language development and the historical evolution of ...
Social Sciences
Jul 27, 2023
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Is being in love just a chemical reaction? Is technology harming our brains? Is it OK to enhance brain function with cognitive enhancers, or 'smart drugs'? These are just some of the areas of debate presented in a new free ...
Software
Apr 30, 2013
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Bustling with exciting urban opportunities, cities are attractive not only to human residents. Many creatures happily share human settlements, feasting on easy pickings. But what makes some creatures better suited for life ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 22, 2022
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If you go by the ads for some language learning apps, you can "have a conversation in a new language in three weeks."
Social Sciences
Apr 4, 2018
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Multilingual students, who speak a language or more than one language other than English at home, have improved in reading and math achievement substantially since 2003, finds a new study published in Educational Researcher ...
Social Sciences
Jun 12, 2018
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