Bob Moses, who helped register Black residents to vote in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, believed civil rights went beyond the ballot box. To Moses, who was a teacher as well as an activist, math literacy is ...
Mathematics
Jun 20, 2024
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As the centennial of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 approaches, a new study illustrates that the attitudes of Americans in Generation X toward evolution shifted as they aged.
Social Sciences
Apr 10, 2024
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The global COVID-19 pandemic caused much suffering and tragedy and continues to do so. One aspect of our everyday lives that was massively disrupted was education. Conventional classroom teaching methods had to be digitized ...
Education
Apr 5, 2024
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Even in tech-heavy Washington state, the numbers of students with access to computer science classes aren't higher than national averages: In the 2022–2023 school year, 48% of public high schools offered foundational CS ...
Education
Mar 14, 2024
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In a new study from the University of Georgia, researchers found that the time high schoolers spend on so-called enrichment activities—including tutoring, sports, school clubs and even homework—is negatively affecting ...
Social Sciences
Mar 7, 2024
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Math anxiety, which can begin as early as kindergarten, negatively affects students' math performance both in the moment and throughout their math education. Most research focuses on the affective or physiological aspects ...
Education
Jan 31, 2024
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How would you feel if your child were being tutored by a robot?
Social Sciences
Jan 17, 2024
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Social robots, artificial intelligence (AI) systems designed to interact with humans, are marketed as capable of fulfilling certain human roles. Elementary and middle school students who interacted with one of these robots ...
Social Sciences
Dec 7, 2023
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Grouping English learners together in classrooms, a longstanding practice in schools, has no impact—positive or negative—on reading development for elementary school students, shows a new study by a team of literacy education ...
Education
Oct 19, 2023
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Third-grade retention can increase the reading and math scores of struggling students, with positive effects lasting into middle school, according to new research.
Education
Oct 12, 2023
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