Tag: K-12 education
Teacher turnover is a problem – here’s how to fix it
Christopher Redding, University of Florida
Each school year, a good portion of parents find out that their child’s teacher is leaving for a job at...
State takeovers of schools are about political power, not school improvement
Domingo Morel, Rutgers University Newark
When states take over local school districts – like they’ve done or are trying to do in Kentucky, Georgia...
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...
Astronaut Sally K. Ride’s legacy – encouraging young women to embrace...
Bonnie J. Dunbar, Texas A&M University
On June 18, 1983, 35 years ago, Sally Ride became the first American woman to launch into space,...
Lab coats help students see themselves as future scientists
Megan Ennes, North Carolina State University and M. Gail Jones, North Carolina State University
In order to encourage more of the nation’s young people to...
How Trump’s harsh education cuts undermine his economic growth goals
Shaun M. Dougherty, University of Connecticut
The Trump administration has some ambitious goals that include trillions in tax cuts, a significant military buildup and a...
The challenge facing libraries in an era of fake news
Donald A. Barclay, University of California, Merced
Imagine, for a moment, the technology of 2017 had existed on Jan. 11, 1964 – the day Luther...
Single-sex schools: Could they harm your child?
Lise Eliot, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Gender-segregated education is making a comeback. Single-sex classrooms, long discouraged under Title IX, the federal law...
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
