Tobacco use is costly, but so is quitting. Surveys of 8 African countries show who needs help
In low-income countries, tobacco use is often associated with lower income and less education. These users can’t afford to pay for counselling and medication.
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Penguin Random House, PEN America, authors and parents sue Florida county for removing books on race and LGBTQ themes
Differences over what counts as indoctrination lie behind a first-of-its-kind lawsuit in Florida. PEN America’s CEO deems book removals ‘a deliberate attempt to suppress diverse voices’.
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Guess What? Mem Fox’s children's book has been banned in Florida as 'pornography' – but bathing is not a sexual act
Book bans in Ron DeSantis’s Florida have censored beloved Australian author Mem Fox – for an illustrated character’s bath. But blanket nudity bans teach children bodies are ‘inherently sexual’.
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Superintendent turnover is increasing and gender gaps are barely budging, but accurately assessing the consequences remains a challenge
New research on school superintendent turnover rates reveals that divisive political issues are contributing to the problem of instability among school leadership across the US.
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Taking mental wellness education beyond the campus: How universities can help respond to the mental health care crisis
Mental health isn’t just about illness, it is also about wellness. Universities are well positioned to offer accessible, evidence-based wellness education to the general public.
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Generative AI is forcing people to rethink what it means to be authentic
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, people now need to pause and wonder whether it actually hatched from an egg.
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How the US military used magazines to target 'vulnerable' groups with recruiting ads
The US military’s switch to an all-volunteer force in 1973 led to a series of magazine ads that sought to portray military service as a way for women and people of color to move up in society.
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We need memory to learn - but not the way we currently use it
Of the three types of memory (sensory, working and long-term), the last two are indispensable for learning. Students must be taught to work on them in class in order to avoid meaningless memorisation.
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How hip-hop has enhanced American education over the past 50 years, from rec rooms to classrooms
Once considered a novelty in school, hip-hop has spawned an array of educational programs and initiatives that are reshaping the way educators teach and how students learn.
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Plans for religious charter school, though rejected for now, are already pushing church-state debates into new territory
Using public funds to support students at private religious schools is one thing, but establishing faith-based institutions within public districts is another.
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Parents tend to choose their children's schools based on their own educational experience
Parents who had positive experiences in school often select schools for their children that are similar to the ones they attended – but if they had a bad experience they avoid those kinds of schools.
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Only 1 in 3 girls makes it to secondary school in Senegal: here's why and how to fix it
Deep-seated cultural practices – such as female genital mutilation and child marriage – prevent girls from making progress in school.
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4 ways that AI can help students
A scholar explains how artificial intelligence systems can revolutionize the way students learn.
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Racist and sexist depictions of human evolution still permeate science, education and popular culture today
From Aristotle to Darwin, inaccurate and biased narratives in science not only reproduce these biases in future generations but also perpetuate the discrimination they are used to justify.
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Teaching the ‘basics’ is critical – but what teachers really want are clear guidelines and expectations
The ‘back to basics’ debate over curriculum policy obscures what teachers say they really need: clear guidelines and benchmarks of progress.
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Teachers need a lot of things right now, but another curriculum 'rewrite' isn't one of them
The National Party’s new curriculum policy proposes reforms, when there are already several underway. What schools and teachers really need is more funding and less change.
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