Tag: Education
Fight for federal right to education takes a new turn
Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina
A new fight to secure a federal constitutional right to education is spreading across the country. This...
Betsy DeVos has little to show after 2 years in office
Dustin Hornbeck, Miami University
Despite widespread fear that U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would dismantle the public system of education, she has failed to accomplish...
Dangerous stereotypes stalk black college athletes
Joseph Cooper, University of Connecticut
If you go strictly by the official account, heatstroke was the cause of death for University of Maryland football player...
Here’s how to encourage more girls to pursue science and math...
Jilana Boston, New York University and Andrei Cimpian, New York University
Women remain underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. In the field...
Schools are buying ‘growth mindset’ interventions despite scant evidence that they...
Brooke Macnamara, Case Western Reserve University
Ten years ago, after over two decades of research on this topic, Carol Dweck – the Stanford University developer...
Schools must equip students to navigate alt-right websites that push fake...
Jennifer Rich, Rowan University
More than 60 percent of America’s middle and high school students rely on alt-right internet sites as credible sources for their...
Genes and environment have equal influence in learning for rich and...
Jeffrey Roth, University of Florida
More than 40 years ago, psychologist Sandra Scarr put forth a provocative idea: that genetic influence on children’s cognitive abilities...
Culture of trust is key for school safety
Calvin Morrill, University of California, Berkeley and Michael Musheno, University of Oregon
When we first visited the school that is the focus of our forthcoming...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
