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Children learn more science when they watch an AI-powered cartoon character than with a regular Mickey Mouse or Dora the Explorer, a new study finds.
The US military’s switch to an all-volunteer force in 1973 led to a series of magazine ads that sought to portray military service as a way for women and people of color to move up in society.
A strain of sorrow and pessimism underlies all of Vonnegut’s fiction, as well as his graduation speeches. But he also insisted that young people cherish those fleeting moments of joy.
Latino youths often feel more at home in after-school programs and in the community than they do in school. A sociologist explores why.
Washington isn’t a state that typically comes to mind in discussions about student-led protests from the Civil Rights Movement. A Black history professor seeks to change that with a new book.
For some teens on social media, TikTok and Twitter aren’t all about selfies or the latest craze in online “challenges.” Some teens are using social media to advocate for social justice.
Once considered a novelty in school, hip-hop has spawned an array of educational programs and initiatives that are reshaping the way educators teach and how students learn.
Using public funds to support students at private religious schools is one thing, but establishing faith-based institutions within public districts is another.
With the expansion of Second Chance Pell grants, more colleges and universities will soon offer degree programs to students in prison.
Parents who had positive experiences in school often select schools for their children that are similar to the ones they attended – but if they had a bad experience they avoid those kinds of schools.
A new survey found that many people avoid college due to stress. A course design expert says it doesn’t have to be that way.
Students learn the art of dealmaking can involve much more than money.
A scholar explains how artificial intelligence systems can revolutionize the way students learn.
More and more colleges are offering admission to students who never applied.
A new database shows that efforts to ban critical race theory are pervasive throughout the United States.
Where regular reporters have disappeared, university-led statehouse reporting programs have stepped in.
A sociologist interviewed dozens of middle-class Black singles about their friendships, freedom and dating lives.
Asking the mostly Black women’s basketball team at LSU to share the limelight with the white team it beat in the championship game represents a double standard, a scholar of sports and race says.
Despite what’s happening on the most prestigious campuses, fewer than a third of presidents at American colleges and universities are women.
Nearly four decades after President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first National Math Awareness Week, math readiness and enrollment in college math programs continue to decline.
As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop, a scholar of the culture and its musical genres explores the meaning of the word ‘dope.’
Science fiction does more than entertain – it can also be used to better understand the political forces that shape the societies in which we live.
Polarization among the public and politicians threatens to undermine educational progress made over the past few decades.
An education professor explains how a hit TV show about a struggling school became a jumping-off point for a course about urban education.