A game-like intervention developed by school psychologists may help reduce hallway disruptions among elementary school children. The intervention rewards classes of students for quickly transitioning from one room or activity to another. When implemented with three classes of students from grades one through six at a summer school program, disruptions during class transitions were reduced…

A new study demonstrates that increasing class size has the largest negative impact on female participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) classrooms, and offers insights on ways to change the trend. Using data obtained from 44 science courses across multiple institutions — including Cornell, the University of Minnesota, Bethel University and American University…

Researchers found that vaccine misinformation in Danish media outlets from 2013-2016 led to HPV vaccinations dropping by 50.4%. An information campaign geared toward concerned parents helped increase vaccine uptake again, but uptake is still below the level before misinformation began, showing how difficult it is to undo the damages misinformation causes. New research from the…

Teaching younger children through ‘guided’ play supports key aspects of their learning and development at least as well — and sometimes better — than the traditional direct instruction they usually receive at school, a new analysis finds. Guided play broadly refers to playful educational activities which, although gently steered by an adult using open-ended questions…

Researchers calculate that exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas during childhood stole a collective 824 million IQ points from over 170 million Americans alive today, more than half of the population of the United States. A new study calculates that exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas during childhood stole a collective 824 million…

Schools serving disadvantaged and minority children teach as much to their students as those serving more advantaged kids, according to a new nationwide US study. Test scores speak more to what happens outside the classroom than how schools themselves are performing. The results may seem surprising, given that student test scores are normally higher in…

New research finds that prospective teachers appear more likely to misperceive Black children as angry than white children, which may undermine the education of Black youth. While previous research has documented this effect in adults, this is the first study to show how anger bias based on race may extend to teachers and Black elementary…

Researchers find that the brain is taking an extra step when listening to one speaker in a crowd, and not taking that step with the other words swirling around the conversation. Recently, his lab found a new clue into how the brain is able to unpack this information and intentionally hear one speaker, while weaning…

Time on the internet can be informative, instructive and even pleasant, there is already significant literature on the potential harm caused by young children’s problematic internet use (PIU). A new study is one of only a few that examines PIU’s effects on older adolescents. As many previous studies have pointed out, and as many parents…

A new article used eye-tracking technology to record eye movements of readers and concluded that people with dyslexia have a profoundly different and much more difficult way of sampling visual information than normal readers. «People have known that individuals with dyslexia have slower reading rates for a long time,» says the paper’s co-author Aaron Johnson,…