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Most children are not likely to believe that fish live on the moon. What makes children accept some stories and be skeptical about others?
Students aspiring to veterinary education are investing in the hope that it will return value. The reality, however, is different.
College is a time for friendships. But how can students best leverage the power of those friendships? First, by learning how those networks work.
Children who aren’t ready for school tend to lag behind their peers in later grades. Parents and teachers can help.
Language learning can make people more open to seeing a new way of doing things and develop a greater level of comfort with unfamiliar situations.
Thousands of people, both those within Native American communities and their non-Native allies, felt called to go to Standing Rock. What was the motivation?
Researchers have found that today’s students, despite being ‘digital natives,’ have a hard time distinguishing what is real and what is fake online. Metaliteracy might provide the answers.
The pope’s action is significant: It encourages priests to be more sensitive to the context of the lives of their laity.
What Betsy DeVos, an advocate of school-choice initiatives and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary, as well as the rest of us need to know about cyber charter schools.
A scholar says bullying prevention programs fail to recognize that sexual harassment could be related to bullying.
Twenty states not only accept undocumented students in higher education institutions, but also provide them with financial support.
Students and faculty are demanding universities declare themselves sanctuary campuses. Historically, sanctuary offered both legal and moral protection for the vulnerable.
The presidential turkey pardoning draws on a language of forgiveness common to many religious traditions.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of love was not sentimental. It demanded that individuals tell their oppressors what they were doing was wrong. How can this vision help with community-building today?
Babies first learn to recognize the rhythm and intonation of language. The process begins in the womb, where the intonation patterns are transmitted to the baby through the fluids.
At this time, researchers cannot prove a direct relationship. But social learning theory shows that people learn from one another, via observation, imitation and modeling.
The involvement of large wealthy donors in local schools is influencing who gets elected to govern on school boards. Why does it matter?
In America’s past, efforts by disadvantaged citizens to secure greater political influence have been met with violent repression.
Masculine cultures foster a greater sense of belonging and ability to be successful in boys than they do in girls.
A scholar explains what makes landscapes sacred in Native American religion and why there needs to be a better understanding of the ties to the land.
Only about 40-45 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds turned out to vote in the 2012 election. Civic education can improve youth turnout. But civic education itself remains neglected in US schools.
Younger evangelicals have a very different view of their faith.Their perspective on issues such as immigration and economic inequality differs widely from that of the religious right.
Two researchers set out to find out why some people might be better at achieving goals than others. The answer, they found, could lie in implicit beliefs.
A recent poster displayed Donald Trump with the Indian spiritual symbol of ‘om.’ Here is the problem: