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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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To reject the notion of expertise, and to replace it with a sanctimonious insistence that every person has a right to his or her own opinion, is silly.
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In bleak funding climate, academics turn to crowds to finance research
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The crowd has wisdom, sure, but it also has capital. Sites like Kickstarter and GoFundMe allow everyone from upstart entrepreneurs to patients facing exorbitant medical bills to tap into these funds, and now academics are hopping on the bandwagon too.
Brain drain: Does tying college aid to residency keep students in state?
Source: JournalistsResource.orgTeacher salaries help determine types of educators working in schools
Source: JournalistsResource.orgDual enrollment high school students more likely to earn college degrees
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Community college students in Tennessee were 2.5 times more likely to complete an associate degree within two years if they had participated in dual enrollment during high school, a recent study suggests.
School shootings: Impacts on student achievement, enrollment
Source: JournalistsResource.orgGun violence prevention in schools: Strategies and effects
Source: JournalistsResource.orgIn the wake of a school shooting, conversation can quickly turn from grief to prevention. School administrators, parents and politicians debate ideas ranging from restricting access to guns to arming teachers.
But what are schools already doing to prepare against gun violence? How do these preparations affect their students? Are these measures effective?
DACA, the DREAM Act and undocumented immigrants: A primer for journalists
Source: JournalistsResource.orgTeacher misconduct: Research on educators committing crime
Source: JournalistsResource.orgA junior high school teacher in Illinois was charged with battery, accused of throwing an electronic device at a student’s face during an argument.
Grant review that focuses on researcher credentials favors men
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When research grant proposals are evaluated mainly on the credentials of the researcher, and not the proposal itself, there is a bias in favor of men.