Research across a wide range of languages shows that children's home literacy environment can often predict their language and literacy skills. However few studies, especially for English speaking children, examine how children's ...
Pediatrics
May 27, 2021
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University lecturers rate hard work and enthusiasm at the top the list of characteristics that make the 'ideal' university student, according to new research.
Education
May 12, 2021
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As the number of weed populations resistant to multiple herbicides continues to soar, it is clear that better tools are needed to help growers rapidly diagnose resistance issues. With more timely access to information, they ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 7, 2021
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It's a question occupying the minds of millions of employees who have worked from home the past year: Will they still be allowed to work remotely—at least some days—once the pandemic has faded?
Economics & Business
Mar 17, 2021
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Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professions are still heavily male-dominated. Across all sectors, just over one in four STEM workers are women.
Social Sciences
Mar 15, 2021
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A study by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) provides new evidence about the pandemic's impact on learning among students in the earliest grades, showing distinct changes in the growth of basic reading ...
Education
Mar 9, 2021
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When Patrick Rottinghaus began college, he had no idea what he wanted to do with his career. He started out as an "Open" major while he explored possibilities.
Education
Feb 26, 2021
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New EPFL research on whether handwriting skills transfer when a child writes in two different alphabetic scripts may pave the way for cross-lingual digital tools for the detection of handwriting difficulties.
Education
Feb 26, 2021
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Workers with science, technology, engineering and math backgrounds are typically in high demand—but the demand isn't so overwhelming that a 'skills gap' exists in the labor market for information technology help desk workers, ...
Economics & Business
Feb 18, 2021
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A new UBC Okanagan study finds children not only reap the benefits of working with therapy dogs—they enjoy it too.
Education
Feb 17, 2021
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