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“#Young New Zealanders are turning off reading in record numbers – we need a new approach to teaching literacy” Credit: www.shutterstock.com Meet Otis. He’s eight years old and until recently he didn’t want to read or write. Then his teacher changed the way she taught and things began to improve. After a few weeks, Otis…
“#Affirmative action incentivizes high schoolers to perform better, new research shows” Credit: CC0 Public Domain California voters will be asked to approve a return to affirmative action on Nov. 3 with Proposition 16, which would restore the right of the state’s colleges and universities to consider race, ethnicity and gender in admission decisions. Affirmative action…
“#Khan Academy founder’s tips for educating kids in pandemic” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Sal Khan’s first inkling that COVID-19 was going to disrupt education around the world came in February, when the popular online learning platform he created saw a surge in traffic from South Korea. “We got a letter from a teacher who was…
“#Increasing graduation rates of students of color with more faculty of color” Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new analysis published in Public Administration found that student graduation rates improve as more faculty employed by a college or university share sex and race/ethnic identities with students. The analysis focuses on the concept of intersectionality, which seeks…
“#A how-to guide for teaching GIS courses online with hardware or software in the cloud” In the current remote learning era, Forrest Bowlick at UMass Amherst and others provide expert insight into how to set up a virtual computing environment in different modes: with hardware and with software in the cloud. Credit: UMass Amherst/Forrest Bowlick…
“#Will you get a refund if COVID-19 closes your campus?” In this July 31, 2020, file photo, college students begin moving in for the fall semester at N.C. State University in Raleigh, N.C. Colleges are eager to share their reopening plans as they encourage students to return to campus. But fewer of them are talking…
“#Smartphones are lowering student’s grades, study finds” Credit: CC0 Public Domain The ease of finding information on the internet is hurting students’ long-term retention and resulting in lower grades on exams, according to a Rutgers University-New Brunswick study. The study, published in the journal Educational Psychology, found that smartphones seem to be the culprit. Students…
“#Professors publish paper on gender and racial bias in physics textbooks” Percent of images in each textbook by category. Credit: The Physics Teacher Penn State Brandywine faculty members Timothy Lawlor, associate professor of physics and astrophysics, and Timothy Niiler, associate teaching professor of physics, recently published a paper in The Physics Teacher titled “Physics Textbooks…
“#US university switches to remote after virus cases spike” Credit: CC0 Public Domain A university in the US state of North Carolina announced Monday it will switch to entirely virtual classes for its nearly 20,000 students, after dozens tested positive for COVID-19 in the first week back at school. The move mirrors the decision in…
“#California requires ethnic studies for university system” Students at California State University, the nation’s largest four-year public university system, will need to take an ethic studies course to graduate under a bill signed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The change comes amid the national reckoning over racism and police brutality sparked by the police killing…