In 2008, a group of Chicago Public Schools students were on a leadership retreat for Black male students roughly 40 miles outside the city. Ignoring the cold of the fall night, 16 of those students left their bunks to take ...
Social Sciences
Sep 16, 2019
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A team of researchers from Universitat de les Illes Balears and Erasmus University Rotterdam, has found that female students score better than male students on tests over two hours long. In their paper published in the journal ...
A new study of racial and ethnic disparities in school discipline found that black middle school students were significantly less likely than their white peers to receive verbal or written warnings from their teachers about ...
Social Sciences
Jul 29, 2019
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Though less likely to study in a formal technology or engineering course, America's girls are showing more mastery of those subjects than their boy classmates, according to newly released national education data.
Education
Apr 30, 2019
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When the NFL draft takes place, it will represent a professional dream come true for the 224 college football players who get picked.
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2019
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First-year engineering students who gravitate toward progressive ideas, including about gender equity in the workplace, tend to drink less alcohol, according to a study by a University of Kansas researcher. The findings could ...
Social Sciences
Mar 25, 2019
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Evidence suggests white teachers are more negative with – and have lower expectations for – black students.
Social Sciences
Feb 25, 2019
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A combined team of researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Notre Dame has found that when it comes to the usefulness of social networks in finding good positions after graduation, gender matters. In ...
If you go strictly by the official account, heatstroke was the cause of death for University of Maryland football player Jordan McNair. McNair died earlier this year following a grueling practice in which training staff failed ...
Social Sciences
Aug 20, 2018
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There's nothing like a good laugh to lighten a mood, especially when the atmosphere is serious—like it can be in a science classroom.
Social Sciences
Aug 15, 2018
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