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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

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Scientific knowledge is proliferating in an unprecedented rate with an increasing number of journal articles and research papers published every year across various disciplines from humanities to medicine and technology. As researchers, our research stands on the shoulders of other researchers.

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Universities Can Combat Misinformation By Sharing Research With the Public

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Here’s my New Year’s resolution for higher education: extend the reach of research to the people. research practices used to enhance transparency from design to dissemination). There is a robust agenda for academia’s future, including code sharing, registered reports and accessibility. The public, less so.

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As Public Skepticism of College Grows, Students Become Savvier Customers

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I’ve been researching cases of people my age doing [college], and then they get out and they use their degree and they still struggle to make a living for themselves,” he says. “If This is the second episode of a podcast series we’re calling Doubting College, where we’re exploring: What happened to the public belief in college?

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Harvard and MIT Launch Nonprofit to Increase College Access

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He also pointed out that many existing nonprofits and philanthropic organizations already aim to improve college completion rates and open college access, leaving him to ask, “What’s unique about these guys?” That might include doing research, building tech tools or helping manage organizations.

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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

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Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors. A researcher at the University of Southern California, she has been working on AI-based professional development for math teachers for several years.

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The Political Right Is Slamming the Door on College Access

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million in the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center--a big historical change. With the exception of wartime, the United States has never been through a period of declining educational attainment like this ,” says Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University.

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When Does Posting Photos of Students Become a Data Privacy Problem?

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Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for schools to post pictures at all.