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Coalition pushes to increase universities' societal impacts, inclusivity

University promotion and tenure criteria and processes should be broadened and made more inclusive to value innovation, entrepreneurship and other forms of scholarly impact, a collaboration led by Oregon State University asserts today in a […]

Pandemic prompts more teachers to consider early retirement or new career

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The COVID-19 pandemic reduced teachers’ commitment to remain in the classroom, our study on teacher turnover found.This post was originally published on this site

Atmosphere, caring teachers at special schools most important for special educational needs children, study shows

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Parents are more influenced by the atmosphere and how caring staff are than academic educational standards or the curriculum when choosing a special educational needs school, a study shows.This post was originally published on this […]

Sleep habits of pandemic teens suggest benefits of later school start times

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The return to in-person classrooms this fall may have the unintended consequence of depriving many Canadian high school students of sleep.This post was originally published on this site

Website features maps of school segregation across US to help spur research

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The 2020 U.S. Census Bureau data shows that the United States population has grown more diverse and is increasingly urbanizing. Yet K-12 schools remain largely segregated. A new website developed by a University of Kansas […]

Trouble in the English language primary classroom

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When it comes to teaching English Language, our primary teachers are in trouble—and have been for a very long time.This post was originally published on this site

Bilingual children have more efficient thinking skills

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Researchers used innovative ways to examine thinking skills in school-aged Greek-English bilingual children in the UK and found superior thinking skills compared to children who only spoke one language.This post was originally published on this […]

Banishing bias across disciplines, genders and experience—new tool for fairer research metrics

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h-index, g-index, i10 index, m-quotient, Journal Impact Factor, Altmetrics … it’s long been an intractable issue plaguing the research community—how to assess the relative merits of research objectively across disciplines and make fair comparisons between early career and established researchers, different […]

Uncertainty on climate change in textbooks linked to uncertainty in students

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A new study from North Carolina State University suggests textbook wording that portrays climate change information as uncertain can influence how middle and high school students feel about the information, even for students who say […]

Study: Demand for educational choices, implications for schools during pandemic

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As school districts consider their options in light of the recent surge in COVID-19 cases, a University of Michigan study shows they need to be flexible in offering both in-person and virtual options or risk […]

Study: 'Hidden workers' are being excluded from the workforce

Since business has picked up with the COVID vaccine rollout, record numbers of employers have struggled to find workers. In August, half of U.S. small business owners had jobs they wanted to fill, a historic [...]
Companies' adoption of robots is partly due to shortages in middle-aged labor

You might think robots and other forms of workplace automation gain traction due to intrinsic advances in technology—that innovations naturally find their way into the economy. But a study co-authored by an MIT professor tells [...]
Poverty worsened 2020 as many low-wage workers took the brunt of the economic blows

Poverty in the U.S. increased in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic hammered the economy and unemployment soared. Those at the bottom of the economic ladder were hit hardest, new figures confirm, suggesting that the recession [...]