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Education 4 hours ago

Neuroscience training in schools offers benefits but may devalue teachers' social expertise

The growing trend of encouraging educators to learn about how children's brains work can offer reassurance, but it risks teachers' autonomy and critical thinking, a new study warns.

Education 5 hours ago

Preschool social-emotional development intervention linked to high school performance, study reveals

Low-income students who received a preschool intervention focused on social-emotional development continued to benefit from it during their teen years, according to a recent study published in the journal Child Development.

Economics & Business 8 hours ago

Family homesteads with tangled titles are contributing to rural America's housing crisis

Imagine your parents leave you and your siblings a share of land that's been in your family for generations. Several of your relatives already live on the land, and you'd like to do the same; but you can't get a loan to build ...

Social Sciences 8 hours ago

British dads are going 'on strike' for better parental leave

UK campaign group The Dad Shift is staging a "dad strike" on June 11, to protest the poor paternity leave available to fathers in the UK. Fathers and other parents are being asked to "picket or pickup"—to leave work and ...

Social Sciences 8 hours ago

South Korea is finally reckoning with its decades-long foreign adoption scandal

Kim Tak-un was four years old when he was adopted by a Swedish family in 1974. Originally from South Korea, Tak-un had lived with his single father, a laborer who moved frequently for work. One day in the summer of 1974, ...

Social Sciences 8 hours ago

Survey of Florida kids about cellphones, mental health suggests school bans may have important but limited effect

In Florida, a bill that bans cellphone use in elementary and middle schools, from bell to bell, recently sailed through the state Legislature.

Economics & Business 8 hours ago

You're probably richer than you think because of the safety net, but you'd have more if you lived in Norway

How wealthy are you? Like most people, you would probably do some math before answering this question. You would add up the money in your bank accounts, the value of your investments and any equity in a home you own, then ...

Social Sciences 13 hours ago

Helping kids feel safe in uncertain times

As parents, our instinct is to protect and insulate kids in times of uncertainty. But sometimes this is impossible due to playground bullies, stress at home caused by sudden layoffs, cutthroat academics or sports—the list ...

Education Jun 10, 2025

How youth teach environmental educators through intergenerational learning

How educators acquire and implement learnings from their students can play a critical role in environmental education, according to a new study from researchers in the Penn State Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism ...

Planetary Sciences Jun 10, 2025

Moons of Uranus surprise scientists in Hubble study

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another.

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