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Software that advertises premium features for a fee is ill-suited to school environments, where children should experience universal access.
Ensuring that children hone skills and build up credentials at a young age is part of a long-term plan common among the South Asian parents who immigrate to the United States.
Demonstrating for parents how to talk with their babies and toddlers can improve kids’ vocabulary and math skills, new research finds.
Making sure that children hone skills and build up credentials at a young age are part of a long-term plan common among the South Asian parents who immigrate to the United States.
Any HBCU closures brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic could potentially hinder the careers of many Black Americans.
Educational inequality in the UK takes root before children even begin primary school.
Kids in the UK grow up with some of the highest levels of educational inequality.
Children looking after a family member are making decisions about their future in the context of their role, often limiting their options and stunting their ambitions
As Canadian kids head back to school this week, many will be hungry. Lacking fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods, they will suffer mood problems, disease and low academic performance.
Some have suggested that deracialising the academy requires all researchers, teachers and students to link knowledge and identity. What might this mean for mathematics?
Universities must redress, not reinforce, disadvantage by ensuring more students from lower socio-economic backgrounds have the chance to benefit form them.
In a country as unequal as South Africa, the people who have access to higher education have the power to shape the society, including its elites and middle class.
Black students get suspended or expelled at a rate three times greater than white students. The cost: they fall behind in school, and the cycle of poverty and failure is perpetuated.
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Associate Provost and Professor of American Studies, Amherst College
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Laureate Professor of Education, Director Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Epidemiology, University of York
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Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Education and Health Law Clinic, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Health Promotion; Scientific Director of the Healthy Populations Institute, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Education and Mathematics Education, University of the Witwatersrand
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Guest Lecturer in Political Economy, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle
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Public Health Research Specialist, Glasgow Centre for Population Health, University of Glasgow
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Research and Evaluation Officer, University of Leeds
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Professor of Economics, University of New Orleans
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Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
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PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University
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Research Associate in Economics, University of Chicago
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Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
