Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to the topic of education
School employees have been the source of many outbreaks and may be more likely to transmit the virus to coworkers than students, research suggests. Meanwhile, many teachers are at risk for severe illness if infected.
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Research indicates education interruptions such as school closings during extreme weather can hurt children’s academic progress. But there are few peer-reviewed studies measuring COVID-19’s impact on student learning in the U.S.
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Recent studies examining COVID-19’s impact on mental health also find differences among groups of students such as high school athletes.
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Two experts offer insights to help journalists make sense of the recent controversy around critical race theory, a decades-old legal framework for examining how U.S. laws and systems have perpetuated racism.
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Two scholars offer guidance to help newsrooms report more accurately on scientists’ work and hold the scientific community responsible for protecting the integrity of science.
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Journalist Neil Bedi offers seven tips on using academic research as a reporting tool in investigative projects.
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Research suggests school closings amid the coronavirus pandemic have reduced the reporting of child abuse to authorities.
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Tip #1: Make clear that race is only one of a range of topics within multicultural education.
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Below, we provide a sampling of academic research that looks at how multicultural education has changed in recent decades and inconsistencies in the way today’s teachers teach it.
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As it turns out, 2020 has been an enormous news year — extraordinarily overwhelming, relentless and historic.
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