The first two weeks of preseason training are the toughest as players’ bodies acclimatize to running hard in the heat. An exercise scientist explains the risks.
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Starting college after finishing high school is an exciting phase of a student’s life. But students need to prepare for the new challenges college brings.
A historian of the residential schools explains how religion played a key role in assimilationist systems for Indigenous children in Canada and the United States.
A scholar of literature sees striking parallels between contemporary book bans in the US and those that took place in South Africa during apartheid.
Female statistics students had higher final exam grades than their male peers, even though they had less confidence in their statistics abilities at the start of the semester.
A scholar of the ancient Near East explains how loan forgiveness was handled thousands of years ago in the Bible and royal decrees.
Scholars discuss topics that are related to Title IX, such as sexual misconduct on college campuses and bans on transgender athletes in high school sports.
An analysis shows that Black students at more racially segregated schools have a greater tendency to turn to the bottle.
Community members want their schools to address issues beyond academics, new research suggests.
Summer sports camps and pre-season training often have kids running hard in high heat and humidity. The combination can be deadly.
Research has shown for more than a century that students fall behind during the summer break. An expert offers six tips on ways to help children keep up their academic skills during the summer.
The unending stream of violence on news and entertainment programming can have a negative impact on kids of all ages.
As a women’s rights activist, Nina Otero-Warren fought for the right for women to vote in New Mexico. Now, her image is featured on the US quarter.
Some states fund their public colleges based on how well the schools perform on key metrics. New research raises questions about how that affects outcomes for students from different racial groups.
College science classes often fall short of helping students see connections across subjects. Can a new approach make a difference?
Common methods for identifying gifted students often miss students from lower-income families who should qualify for gifted programs.
Several rap songs speak on the subject of abortion from the perspective of the unborn child.
The core principle of education is to enable students to become kind, giving and contributing members of their community and the world.
The effort to give every student equal access to an education has lasted decades and may need even more time before the goal is reached.
A sociologist took a critical look at the cherished career advice to ‘follow your passion.’ What she found is that this advice often brings unintended consequences.
Kennedy v. Bremerton, a case about a public school teacher’s prayer, helps close out a Supreme Court term in which religion was often in the spotlight.
Despite being the subject of criticism and negative news, business schools do a lot of good for society, a veteran business professor explains in a new book.
Kindergartners who are relatively younger than their classroom peers are at risk for doing less well in school. A clinical psychologist explains how to reduce those problems.
A negative environment dissuades many women engineering students from staying in the field. Can colleges and universities do anything to reverse the trend?
With teachers reporting record-high levels of burnout, and more burnout than any other profession in the US, scholars examine what’s going on and what it may mean for education.