Educational Policy News

April 17, 2024

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The Evolving Attitudes of Gen X Toward Evolution

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 ...

Low Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Youth Is Associated With Decreased Work Ability Throughout Adulthood

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 ...

2 in 3 Parents Say Their Adolescent or Teen Worries About How Sick Days May Impact Grades

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 ...

Teacher Effectiveness for Students With and Without Disabilities

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 inclusive for all ...

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High School Students Contribute to Exoplanet Discovery

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. ...

Study Estimates Nearly 70 Percent of Children Under Six in Chicago May Be Exposed to Lead-Contaminated Tap Water

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 ...

Climate Policies to Reduce Motor Vehicle Emissions Can Improve Children's Health, Save Money

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 ...

Delta-8-THC Use Reported by 11% of 12th Graders in 2023

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 ...

'Study Drugs' Set the Stage for Other Drug Use and Mental Health Decline

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 ...

Sprinting 'Like a Jet' Will Produce Premier League Strikers of Tomorrow, Study Shows

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 ...

School Uniform Policies Linked to Students Getting Less Exercise, Study Finds

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 ...

Bullied Teens' Brains Show Chemical Change Associated With Psychosis

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 ...

Hiring the Most Qualified Candidate Might Be Unfair

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 ...

New Deepfake Detector Designed to Be Less Biased

Jan. 17, 2024 — New algorithms close the gap in deepfake detectors' accuracy across races and ...

School Suspensions and Exclusions Put Vulnerable Children at Risk

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 ...

Is It the School, or the Students?

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 ...

Confusing Assistance Requirements Contribute to Food Insecurity Among College Students

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 ...

Laws That Punish Drug Use During Pregnancy Likely Lead to Worse Health Outcomes for Families, Study Finds

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 ...

Study Tracks Shifts in Student Mental Health During College

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 ...

Innovative Approaches for Addressing Difficult Topics in K-12 Schools

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 ...

No, an Anti-Racist Program in Schools Didn't Stress out Kids, Study Finds

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 ...

Parents, Wealth, Race Drive Girls' Chances to Play Sports

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 ...

Maths: Smart Learning Software Helps Children During Lockdowns -- And Beyond

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 ...

School Focus on Grades, Test Scores Linked to Violence Against Teachers

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 ...

Study of Usefulness of Lockdowns During Epidemics Identifies Alternate Solution

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 ...

Study Finds Students, Designers Have Different Perceptions of Masculine, Feminine Traits of Classrooms

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 ...

Could Artificial Intelligence Help or Hurt Scientific Research Articles?

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 ...

Asthma Rates Climb for High School Students as Cannabis Use Increases

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 ...

Certain Personality Traits Linked to College Students' Sense of Belonging

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 ...

Wastewater Surveillance Is Key Tool in Keeping Schools Open During Public Health Emergencies, Study Reveals

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 ...

Let Me Check My Phone Again

Jan. 13, 2024 — New research finds that smartphone usage can increase and even become unhealthy for those who have obsessive-compulsive ...

AI Risks Turning Organizations Into Self-Serving Organisms If Humans Removed

Dec. 21, 2023 — With human bias removed, organizations looking to improve performance by harnessing digital technology can expect changes to how information is ...

Genetic 'Protection' Against Depression Was No Match for Pandemic Stress

Dec. 14, 2023 — Living through a historic pandemic while handling the stress of the first year of college sent one-third of students in a new study into clinical depression. That's double the percentage seen in ...

New HS Curriculum Teaches Color Chemistry and AI Simultaneously

Dec. 7, 2023 — Researchers have developed a weeklong high school curriculum that helps students quickly grasp concepts in both color chemistry and artificial intelligence -- while sparking their curiosity about ...