Educational Policy News
April 28, 2024
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Apr. 23, 2024 Sure, ChatGPT can write a poem about your pet in the style of T.S Eliot, but generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have a potentially more useful role to play in idea generation according ...
Apr. 10, 2024 As the centennial of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 approaches, a new study illustrates that the attitudes of Americans in Generation X toward evolution shifted as they ...
Apr. 8, 2024 A study confirms the concerns raised in the public domain about how young people's decreased fitness may affect their future work ability. The association of low youth cardiorespiratory fitness and ...
Mar. 25, 2024 Many parents recognize increasing mental health concerns among children, reflected by the 1 in 5 who say they're open to allowing a child to take a mental health ...
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Mar. 25, 2024 Research has often focused on how teachers and educators can best instruct and accommodate students with disabilities. However, are the methods used to teach students with disabilities effective and ...
Mar. 20, 2024 A group of high school students from Oakland, California, made contributions to the field of exoplanet research. Researchers worked with the students to use backpack-sized digital smart telescopes. ...
Mar. 18, 2024 A new analysis estimates that 68 percent of Chicago children under age six live in households with tap water containing detectable levels of ...
Mar. 12, 2024 A new study finds that policies to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from motor vehicles combined with investments in electric vehicles and ...
Mar. 12, 2024 Approximately 11% of 12th-grade students across the United States reported past-year use of delta-8- tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-8-THC, or delta-8 for short), according to an analysis of data from ...
Mar. 11, 2024 Taking 'study drugs' like Adderall without a diagnosis is not only dangerous in itself, but can lead to other drug use and a decline in mental health, according to new ...
Mar. 5, 2024 Sprinting 'like a jet plane taking off' will help produce Premier League star strikers of tomorrow, new research has revealed. A new study of ...
Feb. 14, 2024 School uniforms could be restricting young people from being active, particularly primary school-aged girls, according to a new study. The study used ...
Feb. 5, 2024 Researchers have found that adolescents being bullied by their peers are at greater risk of the early stages of psychotic episodes and in turn experience lower levels of a key neurotransmitter in a ...
Feb. 1, 2024 Both liberals and conservatives are more likely to believe that merit-based hiring is unfair after learning about the impacts of socioeconomic disparities, according to a new ...
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Apr. 24, 2024 A university professor has found a way to help students -- and himself -- power through long lecture classes: exercise breaks. A new study showed that five-minute exercise sessions during lectures ...
Apr. 24, 2024 A computer game helped upper secondary school students become better at distinguishing between reliable and misleading ...
Apr. 17, 2024 Gender stereotypes mean that girls can be celebrated for their emotional openness and maturity in school, while boys are seen as likely to mask their emotional distress through silence or disruptive ...
Apr. 15, 2024 Managing problematic student behavior is one of the most persistent, challenging, and controversial issues facing schools today. Yet despite best intentions to build a more inclusive and ...
Mar. 28, 2024 School quality ratings significantly reflect the preparation of a school's students, not just the school's contribution to learning gains, according to new ...
Mar. 25, 2024 Food insecurity among college students is associated with negative physical and mental health and lower academic performance and graduation rates. A recent research study investigates why over half ...
Mar. 18, 2024 Contrary to some claims, laws that criminalize or otherwise punish drug use during pregnancy are more likely to worsen rather than improve health outcomes. The study is the first to systematically ...
Mar. 14, 2024 Dartmouth researchers tracked more than 200 undergraduates for all four years of college to capture the most in-depth data yet on how students' self-esteem and mental health fluctuates during ...
Mar. 13, 2024 Three peer-reviewed journals have recently published research papers by Penn State's Hammel Family Human Rights Initiative. The papers illustrate how the initiative's programs help K-12 ...
Mar. 11, 2024 A new study of how high school students respond to a program designed to increase the frequency and quality of conversations about race in school finds that the anti-racist intervention did not cause ...
Feb. 29, 2024 The likelihood that a girl will participate in high school sports in the United States is driven not so much by individual choice, new research suggests. Instead, decisions made by parents, the ...
Feb. 27, 2024 Intelligent tutoring systems for math problems helped pupils remain or even increase their performance during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed data from five ...
Feb. 23, 2024 Violence against teachers is likely to be higher in schools that focus on grades and test scores than in schools that emphasize student learning, a new study has ...
Feb. 21, 2024 The COVID-19 pandemic raised questions about when and to what extent costly nonpharmaceutical interventions (e.g., lockdowns) should be used to slow the contagious spread of the virus. In a new ...
Feb. 20, 2024 Researchers conducted a study in which they showed four classrooms to students and asked about their perceptions of masculine traits versus feminine traits of the rooms. They also showed the same ...
Feb. 6, 2024 Since its introduction to the public in 2022, ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence system, has substantially grown in use, creating written stories, graphics, art and more with just a short prompt ...
Jan. 30, 2024 Asthma is more common among high school students who use cannabis, relative to those who do not and the prevalence of asthma increases with the frequency of its use among the students, according to a ...
Jan. 17, 2024 In a study of nearly 5,000 North American first-year college students, those who were more extraverted, more agreeable, or less neurotic were more likely to feel a greater sense of belonging at ...
Jan. 17, 2024 New algorithms close the gap in deepfake detectors' accuracy across races and ...
Jan. 13, 2024 Wastewater surveillance is a potent tool in understanding COVID-19 transmission within school settings and keeping schools open when COVID cases spike, according to a new ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- A University Lecture, With a Dash of Jumping Jacks
- Computer Game in School Made Students Better at Detecting Fake News
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- Certain Personality Traits Linked to College Students' Sense of Belonging
- New Deepfake Detector Designed to Be Less Biased
Saturday, January 13, 2024
- Wastewater Surveillance Is Key Tool in Keeping Schools Open During Public Health Emergencies, Study Reveals
- Let Me Check My Phone Again
Thursday, December 21, 2023
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Monday, December 4, 2023
- Scientists Propose a Model to Predict Personal Learning Performance for Virtual Reality-Based Safety Training
- Botany Must Feature More Prominently on the School Curriculum to Promote Awareness of Climate Change, Study Warns
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- New Research Highlights Importance of Equity in Education
- What the French Revolution Can Teach Us About Inflation
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- Learning from Superheroes and AI: Researchers Study How a Chatbot Can Teach Kids Supportive Self-Talk
- Study Reveals Goal-Oriented Rewards as Key Factors in Decision-Making
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022
- Online Learning in COVID-19 Detrimental to Teen Mental Health, School Satisfaction, Performance
- New AI Method for Public Health Analysis Shows Trends in Substance Use Among High Schoolers: Canadian Study
- Tropical Cyclones on the Rise in Low And Middle Income Countries Yet Remain Least Studied of Climate-Related Events
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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Thursday, November 17, 2022
- Air Pollution High at US Public Schools With Kids from Marginalized Groups
- In-Person Learning Helped Narrow Reading Gaps During Pandemic
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
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Thursday, November 10, 2022
- Maintaining Masking Requirements at Boston Public Schools Protected Students, Staff, Study Finds
- Research Points to Positive Mental Health Outcomes for Young People Who Have Attended University
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
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Thursday, October 27, 2022
- College Students Suffer More Than 100 Alcohol-Related Consequences, Study Finds
- Music Class in Sync With Higher Math Scores -- But Only at Higher-Income Schools
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
- School Policing and Disciplining May Lead to Student Substance Abuse
- Automatic Text Simplification: Efficacy in the Foreign Language Classroom
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Monday, October 17, 2022
Thursday, October 13, 2022
- Early Self-Regulation Boosts Children's Educational Success
- Teachers Detail Digital Safety Concerns, Strategies in Elementary Schools
- Research Finds Earlier Start Times Have Little Effect on Elementary School Outcomes
- Pandemic Escalated Teen Cyberbullying -- Asian Americans Targeted Most, Research Finds