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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In 2022, 184 women and girls were killed by violence in Canada. This number has steadily increased in each of the past three years; 148 women and girls were killed in 2019, 172 in 2020 and 177 in 2021. There were 6,423 incidences of anti-2SLGBTQIA+ protests and online hate in Canada in the first…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain There is a persistent shortage of teachers in England. Numbers of new recruits fail to meet targets, and too many teachers are leaving their jobs. It's clear that more new teachers are needed—but apparently, not enough people are choosing the profession. Much of the existing evidence about why…

An interdisciplinary and international team assembled at CSHL's Banbury Center to address the challenges of short STEM training programs. The meeting was titled "Making Career-spanning Learning in the Life Sciences Inclusive and Effective for All." Credit: Banbury Center/CSHL Success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) demands keeping up with the latest tools and techniques. The AI boom, for example,…

Improvement in percentage for children’s spelling performance from pre-intervention to post-intervention. A significant difference between CON and MOVE was observed from T1 to T2 (**). The stacked line indicates 0% improvement. Filled dots, individual plots. Only complete data points are illustrated. Within the violins, the filled lines indicate the mean, and the stacked lines indicate quantiles. *, p Educational Psychology Review (2023). DOI:…

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Florida is always going to be Florida, but this time the state has really topped itself. On Wednesday, Florida’s Board of Education unanimously approved new rules for teaching Black history, which are concerning. The guidelines, titled “Florida’s State Academic Standards – Social Studies, 2023,” offer “benchmark clarifications” to teachers and educators on specific topics for instruction. These clarifications have raised serious concern with the Florida Education Association, the statewide teachers union, who…

Use of resources to support teaching related to climate change and sustainability. Credit: Teaching climate change and sustainability: A survey of teachers in England (2023). The current climate change components on the curriculum tend to focus on the facts and are concentrated in science and geography lessons at secondary school level. The content overlooks the urgency in responding to climate change and does not encourage or…

This figure shows the results from the PISA study, grouped by skills and for the Nordic countries. The numbers in parentheses show girls’ results first and boys’ results after. The first box is reading, the second box is for maths, and the last box is for natural sciences. Credit: Hermundur Sigmundsson, NTNU How well do children know letters and their corresponding sounds? In Norway, the gender difference on these tasks when…

AI’s grabbing headlines, but the robotics field is still making a significant impact in the real world — and this is your briefing on our latest coverage of the growing industry. Before we get into the depths of the past week’s noteworthy robotics news, our resident expert Brian Heater dove into the debate over the use of robot dogs to patrol the border between the U.S. and Mexico. As he notes in this week’s edition of his Actuator newsletter, which you can sign up for here, the robotics…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Music in secondary schools is at risk of extinction unless teachers embrace new technologies and incorporate contemporary genres in the classroom, a leading academic has warned. Dr. Pete Dale, from the University of York's School of Arts and Creative Technologies and lead researcher at the…