Education

Study hard, get your degree, and then step confidently into a stable, well-paid job. That’s long been the assumption about how to secure a livelihood: in neat, predictable stages. But it is increasingly out of […]

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 post was originally published on this site

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 […]

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 post was originally […]

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 […]

When it comes to deciding how significant a statistic is, Université de Montréal education professor Sébastien Béland is clear: “Our goal is to change practices in order to improve quality in the social sciences and […]

Developmental language disorder (DLD) affects around two children in each class. It hinders their acquisition and use of language, even if they do not have other auditory, intellectual or neurological problems, and are only affected […]

For Black boys living in the poorest neighborhoods, positive school experiences showed no significant effect on depressive symptoms, according to a Rutgers study.This post was originally published on this site

To foster school engagement and reduce student burnout and anxiety in general upper secondary education, it is essential to understand, identify and support students with varying perfectionistic tendencies.This post was originally published on this site

Research in education is struggling, but the good news is it can be revived, according to University of Kansas scholars.This post was originally published on this site