School choice heavily influences immigrant students’ experiences in Charleston schools and can leave them in segregated academic environments, new findings show.
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A rising number of school districts across the country are beginning their new academic years in July or August, raising the likelihood that kids and educators will encounter scorching days.
Achievement gaps between white, Black and Hispanic students can be substantially explained by one factor: Their family’s socioeconomic status.
Australia’s education system is not doing that well in correcting for the disadvantage students face in the classroom.
The pressure on Tanzanian students to rank higher has encouraged unhealthy competition among schools
Australian parents rely on a number of factors to choose a school for their child. These include school performance, location and social connections.
The head of Ofsted has said a sense that educational needs had been neglected fuelled the vote in favour of Brexit. Is he right?
An intense night of study won’t help you remember information in the long-term – and the stress of revising under pressure will likely impact on your sleep and thus your exam performance.
It is not reasonable for politicians to say NAPLAN results have plateaued, because comparisons from year to year are not reliably accurate.
Some students struggle because of biological constraints on learning. This can be overcome to an encouraging degree, but only with special and adequate resources.
The ATAR is being used less and less as the sole measure that universities use to select students. It’s time to question its value and the pressure it puts on students in year 12.
Adolescents are getting less sleep even though they’re at a stage in life when they may need it most. Why not delay school starting times so they can catch up on some shuteye?
The new school year has just begun. Parents may be feeling nervous about sending their children off to school. What if they don’t like school? What if school doesn’t like them? What if they don’t do well…
It is no secret that children of East Asian heritage excel at school. In England, for example, 78% of ethnic Chinese children obtain at least 5 A* to C GCSE grades, compared to a national average of just…
It doesn’t matter if a school is outstanding or struggling, or if the majority of pupils are well-off or not – it’s likely that there will be a gap between how well poorer pupils perform compared to their…
Despite a number of dire warnings, overall GCSE results have not been very volatile. Across the country, the number of students getting A* to C grades has increased slightly, by 0.7% points. On the basis…
High-quality English teachers have a positive long-term impact on the performance of students in other subjects, according…
Does participating in a gifted and talented program enhance student performance? Maybe not according to the results of a…
Children’s interest and engagement in school influences their prospects of educational and occupational success 20 years later, over and above their academic attainment and socioeconomic background, researchers…
Malnurition at an early age can have a lasting effect on a child’s educational progress, researchers at the University of…
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Emeritus Professor, University of New England
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Professor of Education, University of Oxford
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Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Director, Colorado Learning Disabilities Research Centre, University of Colorado Boulder
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