Education

After graduating or leaving college, many students face a difficult choice: Try to pay off their student loans as fast as possible to save on interest, or enroll in an income-based repayment plan, which offers […]

To help struggling college students before it is too late, more and more universities are adopting machine-learning models to identify students at risk of dropping out.This post was originally published on this site

A new paper in the journal Cognition examines the visual complexity of written language and how that complexity has evolved.This post was originally published on this site

Ashley Pearce’s daughter was set to start kindergarten last year in Maryland’s Montgomery County school system. But when it became clear that the year would begin online, Pearce found a nearby Catholic school offering in-person […]

Teachers play a key role in supporting children’s development in early childhood education classrooms such as Head Start. Research shows significant associations between teachers’ depressive symptoms and their students’ social and emotional development. However, little […]

A new study, “Under pressure: How faculty gender and contract uncertainty impact students’ grades,” by Wake Forest University Associate Professor of Economics Amanda Griffith and her co-researcher Veronica Sovero from San Francisco State University looks […]

Greenery around primary schools may improve students’ academic performance, while traffic pollution may be detrimental, our study shows.This post was originally published on this site

The South Australian government in recent months announced it was relaxing its catchment zone policy for secondary schools. This means families can apply for their year 6 or 7 child to attend any public high […]

Nearly one in four teachers may leave their job by the end of the current (2020-’21) school year, compared with one in six who were likely to leave prior to the pandemic, according to a […]