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Black students disproportionately disciplined with suspensions and detentions in elementary school

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 1d

A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), published by Elsevier, reports that among elementary school-aged children, Black children and multiracial children who were at least partly Black, are at a much higher risk of receiving detention or suspension in school even when accounting for typical predictors of school discipline. “Disciplinary practic

Younger children in a school class at greater risk of long-term negative outcomes like low educational achievement and substance misuse

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 1d

Peer-Reviewed Publication New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London, in collaboration with the Karolinska Institute and Orebro University, has found that ‘young relative age’ – being young in a school class – puts a child at a long-term disadvantage compared to their older peers. Researchers are now calling for greater flexibility ab

Study provides suggestions for keeping classroom air fresh

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 1d

MIT team looks at classroom configurations and offers modifications to enhance safety during Covid-19 pandemic. Peer-Reviewed Publication Open windows and a good heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system are starting points for keeping classrooms safe during the Covid-19 pandemic. But they are not the last word, according to a new study from researchers at MIT. The study shows how

AUG 09

Status, Growth, and Perceptions of School Quality

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 4d

States and districts are increasingly incorporating measures of achievement growth into their school accountability systems, but there is little research on how these changes affect the public’s perceptions of school quality. The authors of this study conducted a nationally representative online survey experiment to identify the effects of providing participants with information about their local

Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children’s Books

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 5d

Books shape how children learn about society and social norms, in part through the representation of different characters. To better understand the messages children encounter in books, this study introduces new artificial intelligence methods for systematically converting images into data. The authors apply these image tools, along with established text analysis methods, to measure the represent

AUG 05

Privacy and security perceptions of online education proctoring services

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 8d

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutions have had to quickly transition to remote learning and exam taking. This has led to an increase in the use of online proctoring services to curb student cheating, including restricted browser modes, video/screen monitoring, local network traffic analysis and eye tracking. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers led by Adam Aviv , an

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by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 8d

Framework-aligned science instruction early improves science skills in later elementary grades This study investigated if student placement in a primary grade 1–3 classroom with a teacher who had been trained in a U.S. science Framework-aligned [National Research Council. (2012). *A framework for K-12 science education: Practices, crosscutting concepts and core ideas*. The National Academies Pres

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