Where on Earth is the Salish Sea?
Less than half of the people in Washington and British Columbia have heard of the Salish Sea, even though they live alongside it.
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US, UK teams share $10M XPRIZE award for child literacy
A California company founded by game-developer parents who wanted to help their special-needs son is sharing a $10 million XPRIZE award with a London-based educational nonprofit for programs created to teach illiterate children ...
Education
May 15, 2019
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Amid India elections, study aligns data with constituencies
The legal age for women to marry in India is 18, but a recent review of data showed that more than half of marriages in more than half of parliamentary constituencies—the equivalent of U.S. Congressional districts—involved ...
Social Sciences
May 15, 2019
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Speech recognition technology is not a solution for poor readers
About one in five people is considered to be low literate or illiterate, unable to read or write simple statements. Low literacy can be due to reading impairments such as dyslexia or little or no reading practice. For developing ...
Social Sciences
May 13, 2019
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The building blocks for astronomically literate citizens
What does it mean for a citizen to be literate in astronomy? Astronomers who participate in outreach to the general public experience various degrees of astronomical knowledge among people. But so far, there had not been ...
Astronomy
May 13, 2019
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The use of science in environmental decision making
The level of scientific literacy in the United States is low by so many measures there isn't a reason to rollout the data on science education in the United States to make the point. With a determined effort, we could overcome ...
Environment
May 13, 2019
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Testing literacy today requires more than a pencil and paper
Large-scale testing, or what many know as standardized testing, often carries important consequences for students. The results of large-scale tests may be used by schools or policy-makers to make important decisions such ...
Education
Apr 10, 2019
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Putting the science in science communication
Bring science to people where they are. That's the driving philosophy that propels U biology professor Nalini Nadkarni to stretch the possibilities of science communication and bring the beauty of science to people and places ...
Social Sciences
Mar 27, 2019
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Study: Information literacy can combat 'fake news'
It's not difficult to verify whether a new piece of information is accurate; however, most people don't take that step before sharing it on social media, regardless of age, social class or gender, a new Ohio University study ...
Social Sciences
Mar 11, 2019
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Learning Upgrade named co-winner of literacy XPrize
For more than two decades, San Diego's Learning Upgrade has developed "handcrafted" video games that use music to teach reading and math.
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