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Young people with self-determination training could help shift focus to students' strengths LAWRENCE -- The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a new world of challenges for education. But a new study from the University of Kansas shows the…

About 42% of rural school districts in the U.S. offered fully in-person instruction as of February, compared with only 17% for urban districts, according to a new RAND Corporation survey of school district leaders. The opposite pattern…

Credit: Shannon Alexander/University of Florida After years of criticism for their lack of diversity, programs for high achievers may not be adequately serving their Black and low-income students, a new study shows. "The potential…

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Log on to any app store, and parents will find hundreds of options for children that claim to be educational. But new research suggests these apps might not be as beneficial to children as they seem. A new study…

To understand the world, we arrange individual objects, people, and events into different categories or concepts. Concepts such as 'the telephone' consist primarily of visible features, i.e. shape and color, and sounds, such as ringing.…

Children born in December are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with a learning disorder as those born in January. ADHD was found not to affect the association between month of birth and the likelihood of a learning disability…

Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture, a new book by scholar Marilisa Jiménez Garcia, is the first extensive study of Puerto Rican youth literature of the 20th and 21st centuriesCredit:…

A new study published in the British Journal of Educational Technology has identified the different needs of students across primary, middle, and high school related to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the study,…

A new study provides a profile of teachers around the world who provide English Medium Instruction (EMI) in higher education, in which the English language is used to teach academic subjects (other than English itself) in countries where…

Longitudinal study by international MS research team shows that people with relapsing-remitting MS performed significantly lower in several social cognition domains, despite being classified as "cognitively normal."Credit: Kessler…

The brain can teach artificial intelligence a lesson or twoCredit: Brainx3.com, SPECS lab. Thanks to the so-called deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms inspired by the brain, machines can match human…

What The Study Did: Length, readability and complexity of informed consent documents for the COVID-19 vaccine phase III randomized clinical trials were assessed in this quality improvement study. Authors: Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D.,…

A comprehensive study from Uppsala University demonstrates that socioeconomic deprivation modifies genetic effects on higher education and abstract reasoning. The paper illustrates how genes play a greater role in educational attainment…

An agreement on cooperation in the framework of the international educational program International Business Development.Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic…

Researchers at Kessler Foundation upend long-held assumption that language ability is largely intact in individuals with multiple sclerosis, suggesting the need for more comprehensive neuropsychological testingCredit: Kessler…

An article published in Geographical Research examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted international higher education and the mobility of students around the globe, noting that universities face the urgent task of reimagining…

$1.35 Million Grant Funds Open-Access Digital Portal of Archival and Contemporary MaterialsCredit: University of Houston The University of Houston has received a nearly $1.35 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to…

Douglas Wilbur '14, a visiting Ph.D. scholar in the Department of Communication at UTSA, has published a study that shows how researchers can craft message campaigns to protect individuals from adopting extremist views. According to his…

The work has studied systems to name colours developed for artificial neural networks. A study by Marco Baroni, ICREA research professor at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences, together with members of Facebook AI Research…

Study by journalism professors at University of Missouri and University of Kansas explores impact of COVID-19 on US community newspapersCredit: University of Missouri When the Webster-Kirkwood Times, a community newspaper in the…