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University of Michigan researchers find lower grades given to students with surnames that come later in alphabetical order Study: 30 Million Canvas Grading Records Reveal Widespread Sequential Bias a

By simply talking to parents about preventing injuries, pediatricians can help families keep kids safer, according to study led by Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Primary Care Eliana Perrin of a decades-old protocol Unintentional injuries are a leading cause of suffering and mortality in young children, and doctors agree that many of these injury-related deaths are preventable.

What is the best practice for using evidence from research studies in schools? Dr Sally Riordan (Ioe, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society) argues that we don't have enough evidence to be confident that it should always be the first port of call in The Conversation.

A new report released today, co-led by the University of Oxford, has found that most Britons support Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) initiatives, but believe improvements are needed to ensure they are relevant to their everyday experiences.

EXPERT Q&A Students who ride newer, cleaner-air buses to school have improved academic performance, according to the latest University of Michigan study that documents the effects on students who ride new school buses rather than old ones.

Worldwide, there are more children who grow up learning multiple languages than children learning only one.

Live streaming and recorded lectures mean students can easily keep up with a class without ever setting foot in the classroom.

Even in tech-heavy Washington state, the numbers of students with access to computer science classes aren't higher than national averages: In the 2022-2023 school year, 48% of public high schools offered foundational CS classes and 5% of middle school and high school students took such classes.

UCL staff and students can now access Microsoft Copilot. Microsoft Copilot is a safer generative AI tool than using the consumer-oriented generative AI services, provided you log in with your UCL credentials.

New article on jigsaw learning published in Sage Journals The jigsaw classroom is a cooperative learning method designed in the late 1970s to improve the academic performance of minority children by reducing intergroup conflict and increasing self-evaluations.

Since the pandemic, the percentage of students missing about one month of class time per year has more than doubled, Johns Hopkins researchers say For most of American educational history, the concep

Women took on more education-related childcare responsibilities than men during the first several months of the COVID-19 pandemic, and this disparity was even sharper for some lower-income women, according to a new University of Wisconsin-Madison study.

Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Published: Digitalization in schools not only means modern and up-to-date delivery of teaching content, but also offers a wide range of opportunities to strengthen the social skills of children and youths.

UCL Accommodation is committed to supporting students who are care-experienced or estranged, and we encourage students to apply for accommodation in our Halls.

The growing use of online dating websites, apps and chatrooms has an influence on the types of romantic partners Canadians choose, according to a new UBC sociology study.