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Is it a STEM education or a STEAM education? Integrating arts into science programming and vice versa can pique kids’ curiosity − a play touring Michigan aims to do just that.
Self-advocacy and taking initiative have proven critical for autistic students who are also gifted, new research shows.
About two-thirds of students admit to plagiarizing material. Faculty are expected to know better, but they do it, too. How should universities respond?
New research shows colleges attract interest from higher-caliber students when the schools’ home states allow their citizens to get high.
As the nation approaches the 70-year anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, an education professor lays out the state of school segregation in America.
Barring evidence of moral turpitude or excessive absenteeism, former administrators are very hard to force out.
A law scholar examines a pair of Supreme Court cases that pit the public’s free speech rights against politicians’ rights.
Threats from disappointed donors over the language used during campus protests about the Israel-Hamas conflict have become angrier and more public than in the past.
Positive psychology focuses on science-based ideas about how to increase your happiness and live a satisfying life. Studies are following how school-based interventions affect students.
Most teens aren’t getting enough sleep, leading to poorer academic performance. Early school start times combined with natural changes in hormones and the circadian rhythm could be to blame.
The late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor’s iCivics curriculum has been shown to boost knowledge of the political process.
Cybercriminals target schools because they’re uniquely vulnerable. A cybersecurity expert explores whether a new White House initiative will be enough to deter bad actors.
Being aware of ignorance and fallibility can make people more teachable, and perhaps it could make people feel helpless and disempowered.
Scholars who study disparities in early care and education answer five questions about Michigan’s Great Start Readiness Program.
New research suggests artificial intelligence can make professional development programs more accessible and effective.
Many of the Americans getting this debt relief are nurses, teachers, first responders, Peace Corps volunteers and social workers.
The author of a new book on affirmative action in higher education discusses how colleges might still be able to become more diverse now that affirmative action has been banned.
Drexel researchers evaluated a 2014 program implemented by Kevin Bethel when he was deputy police commissioner that led to fewer arrests of students in schools.
Students learned not just a practical outdoor skill, but how to explain what they were learning to curious observers.
The original storyline for Road Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” contained some stunning parallels to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Inclusive postsecondary education programs help students with intellectual disabilities make friends and become independent adults.
Only a small fraction of women have received any financial education at all.
The gentle parenting movement has exploded in popularity on social media. But is it good for kids or parents?
A survey about college writing instructors’ fears and anxieties about AI demonstrates that student cheating isn’t their only concern. And in fact, many have embraced it as a teaching tool.