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Study confirms link between spatial and math skills
People use spatial skills to manipulate, organize, reason about, and make sense of spatial relationships in real and imagined spaces.... Read more -
Students who cheat don't just have to worry about getting caught, they risk blackmail and extortion
When students use a commercial contract cheating service, getting caught by their lecturers is just one of many serious consequences... Read more -
Report indicates that English learners face severe inequities and substandard conditions in New Jersey schools
English learners in New Jersey public schools, already facing inadequate supports and a lack of attention, missed out on critical... Read more -
Impacts of COVID-19 school closures on Latino sibling relationships
School closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic meant that many children spent much of their time at home in the... Read more -
Drop in students who come to the US to study could affect higher education and jobs
Driven largely by the global pandemic, the number of international students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities fell by 15%—or... Read more -
Four reasons why physically punishing school children doesn't work
When I was a child I went to school in South Africa. This was the late 1970s. At school, the... Read more -
Schools are surveying students to improve teaching. But many teachers find the feedback too difficult to act on
Education departments have been investing in feedback-based tools to assess school performance. These include student perception surveys, where students provide... Read more -
A new project to support student carers
Staffordshire University is leading a project to better support students with caring responsibilities alongside their studies.... Read more -
Kids, teens believe girls aren't interested in computer science, study shows
Children as young as age 6 develop ideas that girls are less interested than boys in computer science and engineering—stereotypes... Read more -
Study: Lessons of COVID-19 underscore need for better teacher support
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced New Orleans public school teachers to switch from in-person instruction to a virtual or hybrid... Read more -
Bringing the metaverse to life: How I built a virtual reality for my students, and what I've learned along the way
We've been hearing a lot recently about the metaverse—a vision for the internet which uses technology like virtual and augmented... Read more -
Does wealth always lead to a good education? New study proposes new model for predicting student success globally
New research published in Frontiers in Education argues that analyzing the individual components that underlie socioeconomic status, such as parents'... Read more
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Are your kids keeping up at school?
How a child learns is as individual as the child themselves. Yet with the pressures of large class sizes, decreases... Read more -
Teaching university students to be 'age-conscious' could help address our elder care crisis
How does systemic ageism affect our society? A coroner's inquest into COVID-19 deaths in long-term care homes in Québec recently... Read more -
Study: Gay men earn undergraduate and graduate degrees at the highest rate in the US
Recent news about the significant shift of women outpacing men in attending college—now a 60/40 ratio—overlooks one of the highest-achieving... Read more
