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Education is the process of facilitating learning. Knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits of a group of people are transferred to other people, through storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, or research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of educators, but learners may also educate themselves in a process called autodidactic learning. Any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational. More...
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Education reduces crime: Three-state recidivism study
Source: JournalistsResource.orgCrime prevention efforts aren’t limited to policing and incarceration. Education has long been advocated as a way to help former inmates succeed in the world outside prison after their release and thus reduce reincarceration.
HPV vaccines: Research on safety, racial disparities in vaccination rates and male participation
Source: JournalistsResource.orgFirst national survey of lesbian, gay and bisexual teens finds risky behavior
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There are almost 1.3 million lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) high school students in the United States, according to the first nationwide survey measuring their numbers and attitudes toward risk. These students – about 8 percent of the total – are nearly five times more likely than their straight peers to have attempted suicide and more than four times more likely to have experimented with hard drugs like heroin and meth.
Violence in schools: Research findings on underlying dynamics, response and prevention
Source: JournalistsResource.orgAre better educated women more likely to be childless? An investigation in Europe
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Researchers from the Vienna Institute of Demography examine the relationship between childlessness and educational attainment among women from 13 European countries.
How social media may influence student loyalty to a university
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The strength of a university’s Facebook community may play a role in building brand loyalty among students.
Stay-at-home dads: How unemployment, mother's education impact family decisions about child care
Source: JournalistsResource.orgSchool vouchers and student achievement: Reviewing the research
Source: JournalistsResource.orgStudent learning with laptops: Measuring the effectiveness of laptops in American classrooms
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The issue: Questions about how to use limited financial resources vex school administrators and local governments across the country. Computer technology is critical to the 21st century economy. So school administrators increasingly see laptops as a way to ensure all children receive tools for success. As laptops fall in price — Google’s Chromebook, for example, starts at $150 — they are becoming more common in the classroom. But do such programs help students learn?