Strange Maps

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index in map form. Professor Blavatskyys study on BMI and corruption won him the Economics prize at the 2021 Ig Nobel Awards, the annual celebration of quirky research. The research used an algorithm to estimate the median BMI of entire governments.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

“Algebra in eighth grade is a gateway to a lot of further opportunities,” said Dan Goldhaber, an economist who studies education at the American Institutes for Research, in a recent webinar. Researchers are trying to understand why so few Black and Hispanic students and low-income students of all races are making it through this early gate.

Middle School 142

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2023, EdSurge published a record number of stories on early care and education — the most we’ve run since we began covering the age group nearly five years ago. Check out our most-read stories of 2023 below. And they’re looking to produce real solutions, not just research reports.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

New Jersey had the nations lowest proportion roughly 2 percent of eligible students receiving these services in 2023. million who were eligible in 2023, the most recent year for which data is available. million in federal and state funds in 2023, the last year that complete data is available. That was the hope.

High School 132

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Political Science Now

MARCH 18, 2025

The APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant supports the advancement of research goals and professional development of early career political science scholars. The grant will award scholars whose research areas focus on one of the following target research areas. Applications are due May 6, 2025. Apply Now

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By analyzing one million words of Akkadian cuneiform, researchers unearthed fascinating connections between emotional states and specific body parts, offering fresh insights into human emotional experience through time. However, researchers caution that linguistic descriptions alone may not capture the full scope of emotional experience.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2024

At least 30 colleges closed their only or final campus in the first 10 months of 2023, including 14 nonprofit colleges and 16 for-profit colleges, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO. David Attis, managing director of research at the education consulting company EAB.

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Pedagogy to Share

AUGUST 21, 2023

Thessaloniki August 2023 This week I will be presenting at the 20th Biennial EARLI Conference , hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Macedonia, Greece. Recently she has completed practitioner research into her online teaching online during the COVID-19 pandemic. A Technology Report on Nearpod.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 11, 2024

After attending a convening hosted by the Center for Inclusion Innovation in 2023, an education researcher transformed her practice to center student voice and leadership.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Research shows that approximately 1.27 Stanford University studies in 2021 and 2023 identified him as being among the top 2 percent of scientists in the world. Research by my colleague Lorraine Griffith found that struggling readers in her class made nearly two years progress in reading in just one year using these methods.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For the researchers, that means that absenteeism threatens to aggravate the teacher shortage. Previous research from one of the authors has tried to show that missing class can negatively impact what teachers think about absent students, leading them to view those students as lacking social skills and being less academically capable.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A ‘Knowledge Revival’ A 2025 book by 10 education researchers in Europe and Australia, Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival , makes the case that students cannot learn the skills of comprehension and critical thinking unless they know a lot of stuff first. Weve all been there.

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Teaching Anthropology

MARCH 10, 2025

From September 2023 to April 2024, I mentored two students, Brendan Newton and Ellie Wan, as they completed their professional opportunities as Research Assistants in my lab (Complex Trait and Forensic Genomics Laboratory). What was your primary learning objective or research question?

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

At the recent Montessori Schools of Massachusetts conference, I shared how cutting-edge brain research aligns with and validates core Montessori principles. Recent research by Gotlieb and colleagues (2022) shows that this drive for meaning has profound effects on brain development. Here's a summary of some of those key points.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

“LIFO is not very good for kids,” said Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the American Institutes for Research, speaking to journalists about expected teacher layoffs at the 2024 annual meeting of the Education Writers Association in Las Vegas. One approach would be to lay off less effective teachers, regardless of seniority.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

. “The structure aligns with theoretical models predicting the use of specialized heating techniques for birch tar production, a hallmark of Neanderthal ingenuity,” the researchers note. Journal of Archaeological Research, 22 (4), 563–602. How Did Neanderthals Make Tar? DOI:10.1073/pnas.1911137116 Fajardo, S.,

Archaeology 98

Archaeology K-12 Cultures Humanities 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and Arizona State University found that human feedback was generally a bit better than AI feedback, but AI was surprisingly good. On a five-point scale that the researchers used to rate feedback quality, with a 5 being the highest quality feedback, ChatGPT averaged a 3.6

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a crowded marketplace with fierce competition for scarce dollars, savvy entrepreneurs embrace research to inspire, hone and scale their businesses. Your concept needs the backing of credible, empirical evidence that follows a research-to-practice trajectory. What research substantiates your product or service?

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TeachThought

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The massive T-Mobile data breach in 2023, which exposed 37 million customers’ data, was a stark reminder: cybersecurity isn’t just IT jargon—it’s a necessity in our digital world. Two-Factor Authentication : According to Microsoft’s 2023 Security Report, adding this extra step has prevented 99.9%

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2023

Tools like ChatGBT and Google Bard weren’t even a thing before 2023. Peer-reviewed research Educators want a compelling why that imparts value when it comes to change. Be sure to specify that you are looking for peer-reviewed research that supports the practice you are trying to implement or change.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By integrating insights from developmental psychology, researchers have identified playful and imaginative marks made by young artists, fundamentally rethinking prehistoric creativity. This new research confronts that narrative, positioning children as active creators whose unique contributions have long been overlooked.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

As a paleontologist, I traveled in May 2023 to the Indonesian islands of the Riau Archipelago, just south of Singapore, as part of an ongoing quest for evidence of Homo erectus , one of our oldest ancestors who once lived in this region from about 1.9 The culpritwe later learned when researching the historical recordwas gambier.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2025

One school choice researcher identified Milwaukee as having the most evolved legislation for making private school options accountable to families. Instead, families tend to rely on recommendations from friends and neighbors, researchers say. Some are skeptical of past research on the politically charged topic of voucher programs.

Charter School 104

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

” How Horn Modification Was Achieved Using advanced analysis, the researchers determined that the horn deformations were not natural. Future Directions in Research The findings from Hierakonpolis open new avenues for studying the role of livestock in ancient societies. ” Related Research Morales, J., & Latini, R.

Archaeology 98

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

That has not deterred a trio of researchers from trying to quantify that influence. Kraft and two other researchers from Harvard University and the University of Virginia turned to the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health , a periodic survey of 20,000 teens from 1994 into adulthood.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Banning legacy admissions is promoted not only as a matter of fairness, but as a strategy for increasing Black, Latino and Native American student enrollment in elite universities after the Supreme Court restricted race-conscious admissions in 2023. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education?

Leadership 91

Leadership Research Education 91

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We convened school leaders, educators, students, researchers, and thought leaders to advance R&D with and for students and communities.

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Education Research 152

ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Perhaps it’s no surprise that EdSurge’s most popular podcast episode of 2023 focused on ChatGPT. A Yale University psychology professor has gathered highlights of what research says about the most common human thinking errors into a popular class at the university that she recently turned into a book.

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Civics Psychology Humanities Elementary School 88

Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2024

In August 2023, during the first Republican primary debate, nominee Chris Christie unleashed an insult directed at rival Vivek Ramaswamy: “Hold on, I’ve had enough already tonight of a guy who sounds like ChatGPT!” The crowd laughed and jeered. He often structured his talks as rebuttals to his most strident critics.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

One of the few replicated findings in education research is that daily, individualized tutoring during the school day really helps kids catch up academically. That’s exactly what a team of University of Chicago researchers tried with 1,000 students in six high schools in Chicago and New York City. And that will work for them.”

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Tutoring Research Humanities High School 131

Anthropology.net

MARCH 18, 2025

But new research suggests that this narrative is missing an entire chapter. The researchers made this discovery not by analyzing ancient bones but by studying the DNA of living people. If this ancient mixing event is confirmed through further research, it could reshape how we classify and think about human evolutionary history.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Credit: Gabriel Ugueto The findings, published in Quaternary Science Advances 1 , come from a research team led by Matthew R. The researchers propose that these markings, found in association with human footprints, may represent the earliest known use of a human-drawn transport system. Related Research Bennett, M. Bustos, D.

Humanities 91

Humanities Artifacts Tradition Research 91

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

While there dont appear to be any studies specifically on the effect of math education for people in prison, a pile of research shows that prison education programs lower recidivism rates among participants and increase their chances of employment after theyre released. Hancy Maxis spent 17 years incarcerated in New York prisons.

Sociology 103

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Each graduate student brings their own specialized research focus to the table, enriching the legacy of the SWP. Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

But the latest national study from a Stanford University research group calculates that students, on average, learned more at charter schools between the years of 2014 and 2019 than similar students did at their traditional local public schools. We see that existing schools are getting better over time and that’s a hugely positive story.”

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The researchers at El Mirón extracted this ancient genetic material to uncover the presence of humans, wolves, cave lions, and even hyenas, whose very existence in Iberia at this time had previously been uncertain. Fieldwork: Sampling in the rear vestibule of the cave, February 2023. Straus & R.

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Ancestry Archaeology Artifacts Humanities 95

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2025

As I met with global educators and researchers over the course of several days, a few key themes emerged as ones to keep an eye on in the early childhood space this year: 1. More on early childhood worldwide In 2023, I traveled to Canada to see what America can learn from our northern neighbors rollout of a new national child care system.

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