Education

About 5.7 million Australians speak a language other than English at home. Most multilingual children spend their school days speaking English and during term-time, home languages often take a back seat. So holidays—particularly the long […]

What some school boards now call the “winter break,” over the days leading up to and after Christmas, is approaching.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

In a new book, a team of experts in educational policy, epidemiology and public health chronicles the challenges faced by educators, public health authorities and school officials during the COVID-19 pandemic and offers a guide […]

Children living in substandard housing in England miss 15 more school days and achieve worse test scores in English and math than their peers living in better quality housing, suggests research published online in the […]

Grades are a standard part of the American educational system that most students and teachers take for granted.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

As concerns rise about the mental health of American adolescents, schools have worked to create an atmosphere where students feel physically, emotionally and socially safe, connected and respected.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

Black youth in the United States disproportionately experience fatal drowning at rates up to five times higher than their white peers. These statistics relate to historical and structural barriers Black youth face in learning to […]

Although all children have a right to education, many arrival centers for refugees offer little or no access to education, concludes a study by Johanna Funck (University of Bremen) and Markus Ciesielski (htw saar).This article […]

Learning to read is a complex process. It requires children to master and integrate multiple skills, from mapping abstract symbols to the right speech sounds to understanding what all the words mean. This is why […]