How does homeschooling affect adolescents’ character, health and well-being?
A young student working from home. Credit: Jessica Lewis, Unsplash, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Compared to peers at public schools, adolescents who...
Year: 2021
Students who self-identify as multilingual perform better in exams
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Young people who consider themselves 'multilingual' tend to perform better across a wide range of subjects...
Netflix’s Sex Education is doing sex education better than most schools
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Netflix's comedy Sex Education, now in its third season, is set among a group of students...
Finnish parents want assessment that supports and motivates learning
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In Finland, parents often regard assessment carried out in schools primarily as a tool for supporting...
Children facing increased difficulties returning to in-person school, according to child study expert
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Although research data on the current school year is incomplete, a Virginia Tech child psychologist points...
Tool helps find the best balance of good grades and well-being
Credit: Shutterstock For students, as for all of us, life is a matter of balance, trade-offs and compromise. Studying for...
Panorama CEO on Measuring College, Career, and Life Readiness (Opinion)
Aaron Feuer is co-founder and CEO of Panorama Education, a Boston-based education and technology company whose college- and career-readiness tools,...
Genes Reveal How Some Rockfish Live Up to 200 Years
Few groups of animals encapsulate the extremes of longevity more than fish. While coral reef pygmy govies survive for less...
New Mineral Discovered in Deep-Earth Diamond
A diamond that formed deep in the earth’s mantle contains a mineral never seen before in nature. The discovery is...
How Immunocompromised People Without Strong Vaccine Protection Are Coping with COVID
George Franklin obtained a kidney transplant 46 decades back. Now age 67, he is amongst the longest lived kidney transplant...
How Scientists Could Tell The World if They Find Alien Life
Rather shortly, some distinguished astrobiologists say, we will most likely have both found persuasive evidence for extraterrestrial lifetime or banished...
