Children of women who reported domestic violence in pregnancy or during the first six years of the child’s life are almost 50% more likely to have a low IQ at age 8, research finds. In the study by University of Manchester epidemiologists, 13% of children whose mothers did not experience domestic violence had an IQ…

Traditional print books may have an edge over e-books when it comes to quality time shared between parents and their children, a new study suggests. But traditional print books may have an edge over e-books when it comes to quality time shared between parents and their children, a new study suggests. The research, led by…

A research survey of primary school teachers in England has emphasized the importance of the relationship between parents and primary schools during lockdown school closures. 84% of teachers said they felt some pupils were disadvantaged by their home circumstances. With schools closed from March 2020 until the end of the academic year and again from…

Experts say English slang and regional dialect should not be banned from classrooms but when you’re getting to grips with a second language how helpful is it to learn non-standard lingo? Very, says Sascha Stollhans, of the Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University, who argues that standardised language norms are artificial and language…

A new study looks at the causal relationship between outdoor air pollution levels on nationwide university entry examination day and students’ cognitive performance in Brazil. In «The Effects of Air Pollution on Students’ Cognitive Performance: Evidence from Brazilian University Entrance Tests,» authors Juliana Carneiro, Matthew A. Cole, and Eric Strobl use Brazilian data on concentrations…

Researchers found that shifting learning weeks to the summer term and extending the winter vacation period can reduce the university’s yearly CO2 emissions by more than 4%. While strategies to reduce carbon emissions normally require significant time and financial investment, the authors say that this kind of schedule change could offer a simple and low-cost…

A new statistical analysis of data from a long-term study on the teaching of mathematics and science has found that smaller class sizes are not always associated with better pupil performance and achievement. The precise effect of smaller class sizes can vary between countries, academic subjects, years, and different cognitive and non-cognitive skills, with many…

An analysis of the effect role models have on students’ motivation in studying STEM subjects points to new ways to deploy these leaders in order to encourage learning across different populations. «STEM fields fail to attract and retain women as well as racial and ethnic minorities in numbers proportional to their share of the population,»…

Researchers have found a new relationship between counting ability of Tsimane’ individuals and their ability to perform matching tasks that involve numbers up to about 25. The results suggest that in order to think about exact numbers, people need to have a word for that number. A new study from MIT and the University of…

A peace sign from Martin Luther King, Jr, becomes a rude gesture; dolphins in Venice’s Grand Canal — manipulated or mis-used images posted as truth. Researchers say image editing software is so common and easy to use, it has the power to re-imagine history. Even the White House is doing it and deadline-driven journalists lack…