Education

In partnership with San Francisco schools, GSE Professor Alfredo J. Artiles is leading a research project to reform a system disproportionately referring Black students to special education.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

College students’ relationships with friends, professional staff members, faculty and other members of their campus community are an important factor in their willingness to report hazing to their institutions, according to a new study from […]

A new study provides evidence of the explosive growth of private club and travel teams in youth sports over the past 60 years.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

According to a new study, researchers with expertise on the Middle East and/or Israel/Palestine have been engaging in self-censorship in response to perceived and actual restrictions at German universities.This article is brought to you by […]

As an education researcher who has studied the economic returns of higher education, I know that college degrees remain cost-effective investments for most students.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

Girls who are dissatisfied with their bodies receive lower grades in physical education in sixth grade, while pupils with strong confidence in their physical abilities perform better. This is shown in a study from the […]

Forget the dreaded Friday spelling test, and don’t count on spell check to do the job. For too long, spelling has been treated as rote memorization or dismissed as unnecessary in an age of autocorrect […]

Schools are meant to foster connection, but new research suggests they may also be emotionally isolating spaces for many young people.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

If you’ve always wanted to learn a new language, don’t let age put you off. People aged over 60 can be independent and flexible in how they learn a language—and successful, too.This article is brought […]

While it is known that auditory characteristics like loudness and tempo are associated with the physical movements of musicians, more subtle features, like timbre (also known as the “tone color” or tonal quality), are not […]