Tag: Education
5 tips for parents to build communication skills with children with...
Sanikan Wattanawongwan, Texas A&M University and J. Ganz, Texas A&M University
We are researchers who coach parents to communicate with children with disabilities.
Here...
School spankings are banned just about everywhere around the world except...
Lucy Sorensen, University at Albany, State University of New York; Charmaine Willis, University at Albany, State University of New York; Melissa L Breger, Albany...
What Amazon’s decision to retrain a third of its employees means...
Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Amazon’s announcement that it will invest US$700 million to retrain 100,000 employees – a third of its U.S....
Gates launches lobbying arm – higher education on agenda
Nicholas Tampio, Fordham University
Bill and Melinda Gates have launched a lobbying group in part to drive their agenda on education.
The move comes as Congress...
Are yoga and mindfulness in schools religious?
Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University
The number of U.S. children age 4 to 17 practicing yoga rose from 2.3% to 8.4% – or from 1.3...
What other countries can teach the US about raising teacher pay
David Evans, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Teacher strikes swept the United States in 2018, from West Virginia to Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona, North Carolina and beyond....
Why LeBron James’ I Promise School should be more like LeBron...
Nolan Krueger, University of Texas at Austin; Kevin O'Neal Cokley, University of Texas at Austin, and Marlon L. Bailey, University of Texas at Austin
When...
Striking teachers in Denver shut down performance bonuses – here’s how...
Nathan Favero, American University School of Public Affairs
Editor’s note: Denver teachers reached a tentative deal on Feb. 14 that ended a three-day strike.
Besides raises...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
