A new poll of 2,143 California adults conducted by University of California, Irvine researchers reveals overwhelming bipartisan support for stricter regulations on children's use of digital technology, including school smartphone restrictions and social media age limits....
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Published on: 2025-09-10
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Phys.org – Education
Story time—at home, at nursery and at school—is where young children encounter the magic of books. Reading stories to young children is a pleasurable activity in itself, but it also lays the foundation for language and literacy development and has social and emotional benefits....
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Published on: 2025-09-09
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In a Connecticut high school Spanish heritage language classroom, the conversation moves well beyond verb conjugations and vocabulary lists. Students are debating labor laws, analyzing fairness, and connecting their own lives to the experiences of migrant youth....
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Published on: 2025-09-09
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Phys.org – Education
Almost half of school pupils currently on free school meals will have started their formal education without the necessary skills to thrive, according to new research....
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Published on: 2025-09-09
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On the heels of wider acceptance of school phone bans and taking "digital breaks," South Australian experts have produced more evidence of the potential benefits to student well-being, mental health outcomes and their overall lived experience....
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Published on: 2025-09-09
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Bright children from poorer backgrounds are twice as likely to be admitted to hospital with mental health problems than high-achievers with affluent upbringings....
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Published on: 2025-09-08
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Australia and England are both multicultural countries where hundreds of languages are spoken. However, in both, levels of language learning at school are worryingly low....
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Published on: 2025-09-08
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Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Most people probably recognize that by now. But there is still skepticism about the use of AI in many areas. One of them is education....
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Published on: 2025-09-08
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For more than a century, scholars have repeated a powerful idea: that the mistakes children make when learning to speak are the seeds of language change....
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Published on: 2025-09-08
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The federal government wants to increase the number of Australians who complete tertiary study from 60% to 80% by 2050....
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Published on: 2025-09-08
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A new study from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) highlights the emotional and mental toll on teachers managing student pain in classrooms and calls for systemic change to better support both educators and students....
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Published on: 2025-09-08
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Mathematics has been the broccoli of school subjects for generations of Australian teenagers....
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Published on: 2025-09-07
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Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of many people's everyday lives. Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot write letters and term papers for them, give tips for excursions on holiday or answer questions on every conceivable topic....
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Published on: 2025-09-06
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Crowded around a workshop table, four girls at de Zavala Middle School puzzled over a Lego machine they had built. As they flashed a purple card in front of a light sensor, nothing happened....
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Published on: 2025-09-05
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Since 1945, three-quarters of all global economic growth has been driven by technological advances. Since 1990, 90% of that advance has been rooted in fundamental science, according to Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University....
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Published on: 2025-09-04
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