Stress Was Leading Reason Teachers Quit Before Pandemic – COVID Has Made Matters Worse
Stress was the most common reason teachers cited for leaving the profession before and during the pandemic, according to a RAND Corporation survey of nearly…
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Study Finds Limited Transmission of COVID-19 From Open Schools
Most countries introduced school closures during the spring of 2020 despite substantial uncertainty regarding the effectiveness in containing SARS-CoV-2. In Sweden, upper-secondary schools moved online…
Transforming the Structure of Atoms Into Sounds, Giving Each Element Its Own Unique Musical Scale
Hearing Tones, Elements Through Atomic Music Data about the structure of atoms can be transformed into sounds, giving each element its own unique musical scale….
Which COVID Face Masks Are Best for Speech Intelligibility and Student Comprehension?
As instructors continue to wear masks for the safety of themselves and their students, the question of which types of masks allow for the best…
Writing by Hand Makes Kids Smarter – Here’s Why
Writing by hand creates much more activity in the sensorimotor parts of the brain, researchers found. New brain research shows that writing by hand helps…
Sheila Widnall: A Lifetime Exploring the Unknown at MIT and in the U.S. Air Force
During 64 years at MIT, the Institute Professor Emerita has been a trailblazer in aerospace and the U.S. military, and a changemaker for women in…
American Psychological Association Study: How Long Does the Preschool Advantage Last?
Attending preschool boosts young children’s math, literacy skills, but peers catch up in kindergarten, study finds. Children who attend preschool enter kindergarten with greater skills…
High School Students Work on Blocking the COVID-19 Virus’s Exit Strategy
This movie of a 10-nanosecond molecular dynamics simulation shows how the shape of a SARS-CoV-2 virus protein (magenta) changes as it interacts with a possible…
Music Training May Not Make Children Smarter After All – No Positive Impact on Cognitive Skills or Academic Achievement
Music training does not have a positive impact on children’s cognitive skills, such as memory, and academic achievement, such as mathematicss, reading or writing, according…
COVID 2025: How the Pandemic Is Changing Our World
Coronavirus is changing life as we know it on a daily basis. But what will our world look like in the next five years? How…
A Balanced Approach to Weaving Indigenous Knowledge With Scientific Research
Indigenous knowledge, including oral histories, mythologies, place names, and classification schemes, can span many generations, preserving information that has helped native communities adapt to natural…
Similar Thinking Patterns Shown in Native Amazonians, Americans and Monkeys
The neural computations of human and non-human primates shed new light on the evolution of language. Humans and monkeys may not speak the same lingo,…
Weird Science: Media Stereotypes Thwart Kids’ Science Ambitions
White lab coats and dangerous experiments all epitomize the ‘mad scientist’ from many a Hollywood blockbuster but, even beyond the silver screen, the stereotype lives…
You May Be Better at Learning to Code Than You Think – Even if You’re Not a “Math Person”
Want to learn to code? Put down the math book. Practice those communication skills instead. New research from the University of Washington finds that a…
Are We Teaching Kids to Write All Wrong?
“As you can see, individual differences in writing can be seen as early as kindergarten,” says Cynthia Puranik, associate professor in the College of Education…
If You Want to Live Longer, Stay in School
Life expectancy in the United States has been in decline for the first time in decades, and public health officials have identified a litany of…
Smaller Class Sizes Not Always Better for Academic Performance and Achievement
A new statistical analysis of data from a long-term study on the teaching of mathematics and science has found that smaller class sizes are not…
Magnetic Resonance Explained by Simple Experiment
University of California, Riverside, physics students design a table-top experiment for the classroom. Physicists at University of California, Riverside, have designed an experiment to explain…
