Education

The amount of time parents spend with their children contributes much less to their progress in school than the family’s social class, new research shows.This post was originally published on this site

Jouncing along to school in a fume-spewing, rattletrap yellow bus is practically a rite of passage for most American students.This post was originally published on this site

The job market has never offered any guarantees. Mechanization wiped out once-secure careers in manufacturing. Now artificial intelligence (AI) is coming for a future generation of jobs that had seemed safe, starting with software coding […]

As teacher shortages continue to worsen across the United States, a new study at the University of Missouri gives insight into why so many stressed and burnt-out teachers are leaving the profession. The study found […]

Deena Gumina was in third grade in 1999 when a mass shooting at Columbine High School devastated her hometown of Littleton, Colorado. In the years since, these kinds of violent events have become increasingly common […]

Can a school-based sexual health education program that effectively reduces the risk of unintended pregnancy and STIs also decrease homophobia and transphobia?This post was originally published on this site

A significant percentage of college students in the United States are parents. According to studies, about 20% of undergraduate students and more than a third of graduate students are raising children under the age of […]

New research, showing gendered school sports uniforms play a “major role” in high dropout rates of teenage girls in sport, has already broken boundaries to help remove rigid policies. This means that skirts no longer […]

Teaching history to elementary students is stereotypically a straightforward affair, heavily weighted with names, dates and facts. But in a new paper published in the journal The Reading Teacher, a pair of Concordia researchers show […]

A major goal of most universities is to create a recruitment and hiring process that is welcoming and appealing to a diverse group of students, faculty, and staff. However, a workplace that is hostile to […]