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Tools help smart low-income kids broaden college choices, Stanford researcher...

The smartest low-income teens rarely enroll in the country’s top colleges and the reason is more obvious than you’d think: They don’t apply. Stanford economics Professor Caroline Hoxby says cost isn’t...

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Someday/Monday: Curation – EdTech Researcher – Education Week

I’m partnering with some colleagues at EdTechTeacher and Tina Barseghian at KQED Mindshift to write a series of articles about tablets in education. My EdTechTeacher colleagues have developed a...

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Q&A: Stanford researcher on learning English in today’s multiethnic classrooms

What are some of these supports or enhancements? We have little dollops of evidence that specific techniques seem to help in specific situations. They include incorporating visual aids, building on...

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Human rights commissions helpful, says Stanford researcher

Are government-sponsored human rights commissions and treaties mere window dressing, or do they lead to real reductions of violations and abuses? The question is particularly relevant given studies...

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UNH researcher: Bees underwent massive extinction when dinosaurs did

DURHAM, N.H. — For the first time ever, scientists have documented a widespread extinction of bees that occurred 65 million years ago, concurrent with the massive event that wiped out land dinosaurs...

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Mexican Researcher identifies new species of marine algae

6 hours ago The species historically cited as the most abundant of coral algae that forms rodoliths at the Gulf of California in Mexico is in reality a compound of five different species. This finding...

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School of Education researcher investigating how ‘Guitar Hero’ might produce...

The Wallace Foundation has funded a new review underway by Kylie Peppler, assistant professor in the Learning Sciences Program of the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, to examine how...

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News & Updates | Marcia Linn, Leading Researcher on Technology and Education,...

Marcia C. Linn, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and leading researcher in the use of technology for teaching mathematics and science, will speak at Columbia University on...

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Stanford researcher: First-time college students benefit from discussing...

Research has shown that first-generation college students – those who do not have a parent with a college degree – often lag behind other students in grades and graduation rates. They also often...

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Researcher Argues NCLB, Common Core Emphasize English-only Approach – Inside...

Kate Menken and Cristian Solorza have a nickname for the nickname of the nation’s main federal education law. In the title of their recent article in the peer-refereed journal Educational Policy, they...

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Stanford researcher explores why cliques thrive in some schools more than others

At almost any American high school, the elements of teen social networks are readily apparent: the cliques, the pecking orders and the varying degrees of self-segregation by race, age, gender and...

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Misfit or Miss Goody Two Shoes? Adolescent misperceptions abound: Stanford...

It’s true: teens are misunderstood. But apparently, teens themselves have dramatic misperceptions about what their peers are doing when it comes to sex, drugs and studying, possibly prompting them to...

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Linguistic landscapes in second-language learning – Researcher Profile: Gail...

Gail Cormier is not a regular graduate student: she is the coordinator of the Continuing Education Division at Université de Saint-Boniface. She is starting her PhD in education with a specialization...

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Linguistic landscapes in second-language learning – Researcher Profile: Gail...

Gail Cormier is not a regular graduate student: she is the coordinator of the Continuing Education Division at Université de Saint-Boniface. She is starting her PhD in education with a specialization...

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