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Gift Baskets For Kids
You can feel uninspired when it comes to buying baby gift baskets for the kids in your life. Finding something original and enjoyable may even seem difficult with so many fresh trends and toys available. […]
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Exploring Science Fiction For Kids With A New Comic Book Series
Young people who are hooked on watching fantasy or reading science fiction may be on to something. Contrary to a common misperception that reading this genre is an unworthy practice, reading science fiction and fantasy […]
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Five Incredible Wordless Picture Books for your Early Reader
Wordless picture books are a terrific and fun way to teach children about story structure and are a truly wonderful way to get struggling readers and ESL students excited about books. Children carefully study the […]
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The 15 Best Children’s Books for Summers End and Back to School
As summer comes to a close and the season changes we say a sad farewell to summer and children everywhere gear up for a new year of school, with new teachers, new friendships and new […]
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Grammar Checker Tools are Making the Life of Students Easier
In computers, a grammar checker is a software or portion of a software that attempts to validate the grammatical accuracy of written text. Grammar checkers are typically implemented as a function of a larger software, […]
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My ABC Reading Makes Reading And Comprehension Easy And Fun For Kids
Through phonics-based English reading lessons, the online brand helps parents with young kids from 3 to 8 years old, to improve the development of their children’s reading comprehension June 14th, 2022: My ABC Reading is […]
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Bones and teeth help reveal whether teenagers have always been a source of worry for their parents
They were promiscuous, rarely home and thought they knew everything. They were teenagers from centuries ago, and by studying their bones and teeth, bioarcheologists can confirm that teens have always been a source of worry […]
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How does excess sugar affect the developing brain throughout childhood and adolescence? A neuroscientist who studies nutrition explains
Parents often stress about their kids’ sugar intake, but it can be hard to know how much is too much – or what to do about it. Glucose – a simple sugar that forms the basis of most […]
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Children on individual education plans: What parents need to know, and 4 questions they should ask
Already a month into the school year, and after two years of disrupted learning by COVID-19, students with special education needs have been deeply affected. Individual education plans (IEPs) have become a crucial part of the education […]
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Artificial intelligence is getting better at writing, and universities should worry about plagiarism
The dramatic rise of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has spotlit concerns about the role of technology in exam surveillance — and also in student cheating. Some universities have reported more cheating during the pandemic, and such concerns are […]
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School agents benefit both Canada and China
China is the No.1 source country of international students who come to study in Canada. According to the Canadian Bureau for International Education, 150,000 international students from China studied in Canada in 2017. Any political impact on Canadian […]
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6 actions school systems can take to support children’s outdoor learning
When children step out of their traditional elementary school classroom to learn outdoors, they experience a wide range of benefits. Outdoor learning is fun, active and fosters creativity and problem solving. Outdoor spaces are stimulating and offer a variety […]
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Researchers propose compulsory climate change teaching in core law curriculum
Academics from Durham University are urging that climate change education should be made compulsory across the core law curriculum in Higher Education.This article was originally published on this website.
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Students lacking language skills will miss out on jobs, according to new report
British students wanting to get ahead in the world of work should be studying an additional language. New research from the University of Portsmouth, based on the analysis of job adverts targeted at graduates, shows […]
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Elio Antonio de Nebrija: From academic icon to object of mockery
Professor Lola Pons, of the Department of Spanish Language, Linguistics and Literature at the University of Seville, has just published a study of a satirical work on marriage written in the 17th century by an […]
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Combating antisemitism today: Holocaust education in the era of Twitter and TikTok
In the era of social media, antisemitism and Holocaust denial are no longer hidden in the margins, spewed by fringe hate groups. From Ye—formerly known as Kanye West—and NBA player Kyrie Irving to members of […]
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UK survey identifies potential pitfalls of science communication
Why do people hold highly variable attitudes toward well-evidenced science? For many years researchers focused on what people know about science, thinking that “to know science is to love it.” But do people who think […]
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School uniforms are meant to foster a sense of belonging and raise achievement—but it's not clear that they do
In France, MPs have recently considered whether to reintroduce compulsory school uniform, with first lady Brigitte Macron adding her support to the idea. “It erases differences, it saves time,” she said. These perceptions of the […]
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College student evaluations of teachers found to have another kind of gender bias
A trio of researchers from the University of Cincinnati, the University of Colorado Boulder and Clemson University has found that college students giving evaluations of their professors in upper-level courses exhibited a gender bias based […]
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Children learn to read faster when given appropriate challenges, study finds
Reading is the basis for most subjects, but a lot of children struggle to master it. Every fourth Norwegian boy aged 15 does not understand a complicated text. Girls do better.This article was originally published […]
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Archivists' tough calls have consequences
Right now, for technological, ethical and political reasons, the world’s archivists are suddenly very busy.This article was originally published on this website.
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How ChatGPT robs students of motivation to write and think for themselves
When the company OpenAI launched its new artificial intelligence program, ChatGPT, in late 2022, educators began to worry. ChatGPT could generate text that seemed like a human wrote it. How could teachers detect whether students […]
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Curious Kids: What is brain freeze?
What is brain freeze? – Question from the students of Ms Young’s Grade 5/6 class, Baden Powell College, Victoria. Australia had one one of its hottest summers on record this year (thanks, climate change, thanks a lot). […]
