Children’s Pop-Up Books Flop as Learning Tool
New research finds children learn less from pop-up books than they do from old-fashioned volumes illustrated with photos.
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No More Dozing Off in First Period
An 8:30 a.m. high school start time helps students get more sleep, stay alert in class, a pilot study finds.
Should Uncle Sam Attend For-Profit Schools?
Problems with student loans revolving around for-profit universities draw moves to reform the federal footprint.
Great Expectations Create the Best Teen Scholars
There's a lot of ways parents can help their teenagers achieve, but research suggests the most effective way is expecting them to try their best.
The Crisis in Liberal Arts Education
Questions about the direction and pertinence of a liberal arts education mirror questions being asked about the classical university as a whole.
Smartest Girls Find Gender Gap in Math, Science
At the highest levels of academic ability among seventh-grade students, boys still outnumber girls by more than 3-to-1 in math and science, a study finds.
American Home-Schoolers Take on Geneva
Home-schoolers have it in for the U.N. Convention for the Rights of the Child, which only the United States and Somalia have not ratified.
‘Courts and Kids’ Argues for Equal School Funding
State courts should stand firm on equal school funding and make sure legislators and governors show kids the money, a law scholar writes.
UCLA’s New School of Thought
A collaboration between UCLA and the Los Angeles school district aims for the kind of bilingual excellence that's common in Europe.
Can Busing Desegregate Schools Legally?
Perhaps. A Minneapolis experiment offers voluntary busing of minority schoolchildren as a way to deal with segregated schools.