A group of researchers in Australia proposes a new arsenal that parents and teachers can use to prevent cyberbullying, which is bullying that occurs online, over the phone, through instant messages, private messages of social networking websites and forums, and a variety of other electronic environments. The Queensla... |
4 July 2011
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According to a new study, it would appear that teenagers and students are more likely to understand, relate to, and accept the fact of human evolution if they have a firm grasp of the age of our planet. Earth is more than 4.5 billion years old, and relating the evolution of our species over time with this massive tim... |
11 March 2010
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Experts in Sweden were curious to learn precisely what caused average school performances to decline over the past few decades, so they conducted a study aimed at discerning the causes of this. They determined that a wide variety of factors contributed to these modifications in performances, which appeared to be more... |
15 February 2010
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No wonder teachers have a hard time designing school timetables at the start of each year. The issue has been cataloged by scientists as an NP-hard problem, right next to other classic logistics puzzles, such as the traveling salesman, and the crystal packing problems. School management officials and teachers are not... |
7 January 2010
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According to a new report released by Manchester Metropolitan University scientists, it may be that being perceived as good or bad in the classroom is not something that is entirely up to the individual children themselves. The paper reveals that, once parents, other students, and teachers form an opinion about a chi... |
21 September 2009
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According to the first study ever to assess the behavior of high-quality teachers in American schools, top educators are very likely to leave the institutions that are experiencing an affluence of African American students. In other words, whenever a learning institution – that is supposed to offer equal oppor... |
27 May 2009
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The Japanese robot Saya, which was originally introduced to the world as a secretary, has tried to handle a classroom full of five- and six-graders earlier this year, triggering good laughter on its account. The kids have had a blast with the machine, whose eerie expressions and limited vocabulary they have found to ... |
12 March 2009
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Very poor areas of the world, as well as conflict zones, make for regions that usually teachers avoid, either because they fear for their lives, or because they know that they will never get paid for what they do. The bottom line is that the children in those places need education just like any other kids in the worl... |
5 March 2009
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On Wednesday, authorities in Bellefontaine, Ohio, announced that a fourth-grade teacher had been retained for soliciting clients, as part of her second “job.” The 35 year-old woman reportedly used the school's computer to log on to the Craiglist website, and hook up with “clients.” She wa... |
12 February 2009
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The issue of cyber bullying has been around ever since the earliest days of the Internet, but it got exponentially more visible as the cases of such acts rose in numbers by the same ratio. Text messages, offensive emails and videos being posted on YouTube, everything was turned into a means of threatening and oppress... |
19 March 2008
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