Science Education

She's going back to school but can she read?

The fact that children who do not read well by the end of Grade 3 are at risk of dropping out or failing to graduate is one of the grim conclusions made in a…

Academies publish White Paper on the Future of Education in Switzerland

Education should not just provide the knowledge to perform professional duties; it should also help developing a deeper understanding in order to deal…

New Science of Learning Offers Preview of Tomorrow’s Classroom

In the July 17, 2009 issue of the journal Science, researchers who are at the forefront of neuroscience, psychology, education, and machine learning have…

Major school project builds bridges between nations

They have taken part in a developmental project together with students in six other European countries designed to strengthen the common European perspective.In European countries, national curricula are written for the schools, unique to each country, where issues involving knowledge, various values, and fostering of citizens are placed in a national perspective. …

What prompts young people to take positive action to promote sustainable development?

Ellen Almers, at the School of Education and Communication, Jönköping, Sweden, based her thesis on her investigation into what prompts young people to take…

Texting in Class

“Some critics argue that mobile phone novels are not literature,” says Yukiko Nishimura, a linguist and professor of humanities at Toyo Gakuen University in…

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