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Breaking Barriers to a Foundational Early Childhood Education

ED Surge

However, many young children have limited access to high-quality educational opportunities because of socioeconomic factors and technological barriers. She became passionate about this subject after delving into research on children's development and realizing the underinvestment and lack of services in this area.

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Will Banning TikTok Make Kids Safer Online? It’s More Complicated Than That

ED Surge

While it’s true that young people are increasingly struggling with mental health issues at the same time social media usage is ballooning, today’s available research simply hasn’t found one of those to be the driving force behind the other — in sum, correlation does not equal causation. While the U.S.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

The idea that exam results should be assessed differently based on a student’s socio-economic background is known as differential treatment, and Emil is investigating whether such policies can improve equality and efficiency in education and labour markets.

Economics 111
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Do Tech Companies Need To Step Up Their Accessibility Game?

The Innovative Educator

Source: Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Statistics and Demographics Technology was not designed by or for those with disabilities. Is accessibility baked into to the development process? Who wouldn't want content to be accessed by people who are visually impaired? Facebook Facebook is a bit better.

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Does Our Academic System Unnecessarily Pit People Against Each Other?

ED Surge

I came across this paper while researching our Bootstraps podcast series about educational equity. And as we’ll get to later in this episode, this research is personal for me, and I’m very excited to shine a light on this work. One is where health care is just guaranteed—perhaps government supplied. But now they're rivals.

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Mapping the Future: STEM Education and Training Strategy

STEM Education Shopping

Research has consistently shown that STEM occupations offer higher salaries and greater job security compared to non-STEM fields. Current Challenges in STEM Training One of the current challenges in training for science, technology, engineering, and math is the lack of accessible resources. ( According to a report by the U.S.

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Cyber security for the AI age

Futurum

“Digitalisation is helping organisations to enhance communication and collaboration efforts, to innovate, and to stay competitive,” says Dr Burcu Bulgurcu, a cyber security researcher at Toronto Metropolitan University. Cyber security breaches are rarely due to issues with the cyber security technology itself.