Math and reading scores for 12th graders in the U.S. were at a historic low even before the COVID-19 pandemic forced a massive shift to remote learning, according to results of the 2019 National Assessment of Educational ...
Education
Feb 10, 2021
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Health care and education systems are two main pillars of a community's stability. How well and how quickly a community recovers following a natural disaster depends on the resilience of these essential social services.
Social Sciences
Feb 5, 2021
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The middle years of school are defined as being from 8-14 years of age. These were often described as a latent or quiet phase of development.
Education
Dec 1, 2020
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It is estimated around half the world's students' schools remain shut down. All told, this has been a potentially damaging disruption to the education of a generation.
Education
Oct 26, 2020
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Theoretical physicists Kamran Ullah and Hameed Ullah have shown that a position-dependent mass optomechanical system involving a cavity between two mirrors, one attached to a resonator, can enhance induced transparency and ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 16, 2020
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International expert in creativity and innovation, UniSA's Professor David Cropley, is calling for Australian schools and universities to increase their emphasis on teaching creativity, as new research shows it is a core ...
Education
Oct 13, 2020
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As schools cautiously reopen for the fall semester, several have discovered potentially harmful bacteria in their water systems. Parents are likely concerned about what this means for their children, and other districts may ...
Environment
Sep 11, 2020
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A sizable proportion of junior high school students whose first language is not English are falling behind in oral language and literacy skills, according to a recent U of A linguistics study.
Education
Aug 31, 2020
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After a rocky transition to distance learning last spring, Georgia teacher Aimee Rodriguez Webb is determined to do better this fall. She bought a dry-erase board and a special camera to display worksheets, and she set up ...
Education
Aug 2, 2020
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The science community should withdraw from involvement in international tests such as PISA because they have forced schools to adopt "narrow" curricula and pedagogies, a study says.
Education
Jul 9, 2020
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