When Jamie Bolker started teaching composition at MacMurray College in January, she felt she'd won the lottery. After sending out more than 140 resumes, she had a tenure-track position in English.
Education
May 01, 2020
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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 ...
Twitter has become a tool for school administrators to more efficiently and effectively lead schools, according to a new study.
Education
Jul 26, 2019
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Children living in food-insecure households are more likely to attend school on Fridays if they're participating in a food-distribution program that provides them with backpacks of meals for the weekend, researchers at the ...
Social Sciences
May 10, 2019
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A new legal dataset published on LawAtlas.org today shows shifts and trends in state-level "zero tolerance" or exclusionary school discipline laws, focusing on how the laws regulate expulsion and suspension.
Education
May 08, 2019
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In the wake of the Christchurch terrorist attack, former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair told a global education forum extremism should be treated as a global problem like climate change. He said: "there should be an international ...
Social Sciences
Apr 01, 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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A criminologist and her students at The University of Texas at Dallas are creating a database that tracks shootings at K-12 schools in the United States going back to 1990.
Social Sciences
Mar 08, 2018
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The same technology that keeps kids glued to their smart phones is being used by some schools as protection against sexual assaults . Using apps, victims and bystanders can alert school officials, police or parents to trouble. ...
Other
May 22, 2017
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Ethical business practice can flourish even in countries with widespread corporate corruption problems, research shows.
Economics & Business
May 08, 2017
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