Genes have been shown to influence how well children do at primary school, at the end of compulsory education, and even in different subjects. However, less is known about how genetic and environmental factors contribute to how well a child continues to do academically throughout their time at school. Plus...
When somebody can juggle lots of things at the same time, we often say that they are good “multitaskers.” All of us multitask once in a while. Plus...
By Scott Jaschik. A new analysis from the National Bureau of Economic Research looks at whether the National Institutes of Health fund "edge" science. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Two federal science agencies announce actions on harassment, to two very different reactions -- NSF moves forward with a plan to link funding to appropriate conduct, but NIH says it's not ready to take that step. More...
How Educating America's Students Can Be Based on Science
The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) yesterday released this report, Identifying and Implementing Educational Practices Supported by Rigorous Evidence: A User Friendly Guide. The report documents a research process that narrowly defines what is meant by 'science': "randomized controlled trials are studies that randomly assign individuals to an intervention group or to a control group, in order to measure the effects of the intervention." Readers will recognize this as the methodology proposed by an organization called the Campbell Collaboration (though you would be hard-pressed to find the reference in the report). More...
Depuis 14 ans, le festival Pariscience se propose de faire découvrir les meilleurs documentaires scientifiques internationaux, lors de projections gratuites destinées au grand public, aux scolaires et aux professionnels. Cette édition 2018 aura pour thème « Science et pouvoir ». Plus...
Science of Learning Centers (SLC)
This has been out for a while but I only heard of it today (happily, there's still two weeks before the deadline for funding). More...
Le compte à rebours est lancé, plus que 30 jours avant la Fête de la science 2018, qui se déroulera du 6 au 14 octobre 2018 en France métropolitaine et du 10 au 18 novembre 2018 dans les Outre-mer et à l’international. Plus...Genetics, big data science, and postgenomic education research
Ben Williamson, Code Acts in Education, 2018/07/27
Ben Williamson has put in the work and done the reserach and it shows in this excellent article on the nature and implications of the story circulating this week on the relation between some specific genetic properties and educational attainment. " Clearly the paper is a massive advance for genetics science, in education and beyond," he writes. Looking at the diagram - showing how the 75 genes are implicated specifically with the process of neurotransmission - it seems to me to be a significant advance in neuroscience as well. More...
Minister for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation Maria do Rosário Sambo has said Angola should strengthen its teaching of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and all sciences contributing to technological knowledge, throughout the education system. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
