Tag: US Schools
Teens don’t know everything − and those who acknowledge that fact...
Tenelle Porter, Rowan University
If you, like me, grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, you may have come...
How a hip-hop mindset can help teachers in a time of turmoil
Toby Jenkins, University of South Carolina
While hip-hop has created a lot of good memories, good music and good...
Parents tend to choose their children’s schools based on their own...
Anna Rhodes, Rice University and Julia Szabo, Rice University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic...
Math teachers hold a bias against girls when the teachers think...
Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, University of Southern California; Ian Thacker, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and Joseph Cimpian, New York University
What parents and educators need to know about teens’ pornography and...
Megan K. Maas, Michigan State University
Three out of four teenagers have seen online pornography – often before they...
‘There’s only so far I can take them’ – why teachers...
Jessica Calarco, Indiana University and Ilana Horn, Vanderbilt University
Whenever “Gina,” a fifth grader at a suburban public school...
5 of the biggest threats today’s K-12 students and educators face...
Elizabeth Zumpe, UMass Lowell
While many American students and their parents worry that the next mass shooting could happen...
Schools are the ‘hubs and hearts’ of neighborhoods – here’s how...
Alisha Butler, Wesleyan University
Food deserts. Poor housing conditions. Lack of community investment.
These challenges may...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
