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Ontario school workers report growing violence as funding cuts continue
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study from the University of Ottawa shows that workers in the education sector in Ontario continue to exacerbate the worrying trend of austerity reductions, and so are living with an increase in violence rates within schools. The “Violence, Violence, Austerity and Institutional Lack of Ontario Schools” report examined nearly 6,000 Ontario Educational Department workers…
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Because of “bad friends,” boys do not perform much better in secondary school than girls, research suggests
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Secondary school boys get lower grades than girls. This is partly due to the fact that friends are more likely to cheate at school. That is the conclusion of a research study conducted by sociologist Margueriette Van Heck. The fact that boy friends malfunction more frequently is likely to have something to do with gender norms.…
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Children under special guardianship need greater support at school, experts urge
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Children cared for through special guardianship arrangements should get greater support in schools as they may continue to encounter trauma legacy, early life experiences, and the complex family situations they have, new research says. This work has been published in the actual journal of educational psychology. A review of the school’s special guardianship policy and local…
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Space & Cosmos
High school students use AI to reveal 1.5 million unknown objects in the universe
Caltech presidents Thomas F. Rosenbaum and Matteo Paz. Credit: California Institute of Technology Through his research at Caltech, local high school students revealed 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, expanding the possibilities of the NASA mission and publishing a single authored paper. Matteo (Matthew) Paz’s article published in The Astronomical Journal describes the new AI algorithms that led to…
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High school sports have lost athletes to private clubs, but schools can maintain them by focusing on character development
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Until recently, high school students who wanted to play soccer, basketball or another sport had little choice but to try out a school team. And it was the high school gymnasiums and fields that recruiters flocked to find talent for college and strengths. This has changed over the past few decades, with the emergence of private…
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School Community Partnership Tensions Prevent the Sustainability of the SNAP-ED Program
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The new research reveals significant barriers to maintaining school policy, systems, and environment (PSE) change through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-ED) funding partnership. A recent research article published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior identifies the capacity gaps that hinder the unbiased distribution of important health programming. The study highlights that while…
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Environment
Pakistan closes primary school in Lahore due to record pollution
Pakistan’s Lahore city has closed its elementary school for a week due to record levels of pollution. Lahore, Pakistan’s second-largest city, will close primary schools for a week due to record pollution, government officials said Sunday, to avoid exposing millions of children to smog several times above dangerous levels. announced for. For days, the city of 14 million people has…
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“Extreme Citizen Science” — High school students promoted to real researchers for motivation and environmental monitoring
High school students collecting water samples. Credit: Frederik Wolff Nisbeth Teglhus In addition to assisting with sample collection and butterfly discovery for research projects, non-experts can now perform actual laboratory work alongside professional researchers. The University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with a Danish high school, has shown that “Extreme Citizen Science” not only increases students’ interest in science, but also…
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