Student surveys harness new data from classrooms
New technology in the area of student surveys may make them more readily available for use in contributing to teacher evaluations.
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Learning doesn't last if there are too many distractions
News flash: Low-tech is better for learning, and the old way of doing things in the classroom gets better results than the new.
Famous Feynman physics lectures now available to all
The physics lectures by Richard Feynman are now available to anyone with Internet access and a good enough browser. Free. AP kids, have a look.
Sex geckos from Russia died in cold space
Russia sent up five geckos on a satellite in July to study the effects of weightlessness on their sex life. All five were dead when the satellite returned to Earth Monday.
Plants make office workers more productive
Plants in the office keep workers happy, and we wonder what this new research may say about keeping a clean and uncluttered study space.
Symbiosis of 4, not 3
Microbiologists in Montana have discovered a brand new species of bacteria, which evolved inside the cells of the cicada.
Select results from the European Society of Cardiology
AEDs in Paris, a pacemaker with no battery, energy drinks, and obese youth were on the agenda at the society's congress in Barcelona.
18th-century college students liked beer: archaeologists
US college students like beer. An archaeological find at the College of Wm and Mary may prove they liked it just as much before the Revolutionary War.
School shooters victimized by rejection, peers, teachers
New research (a meta-analysis) shows that students who become school shooters are victims of rejection and conflict.
Forensic evidence builds in hit & run death of teen
The search continues for a hit-and-run driver who killed a suburban Chicago teenager in March as he walked along I-88 in Western Illinois.