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  • Study: The Surprising Connection Between Your Politics and Happiness

    Study: The Surprising Connection Between Your Politics and Happiness3

    Do your politics determine—or at least predict—your mental health? Recent research indicates that the answer is “yes.” A study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology found a correlation between agreement with social justice mantras (colloquially referred to as “wokeness”) and depression, anxiety, and lack of happiness. As reported by the New York Post, researchers

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  • Study: Textbooks Are Super Biased

    Study: Textbooks Are Super Biased0

    Unless I miss my guess, many of us have never been huge fans of textbooks. They’re boring. Impersonal. And as a new study published in Current Psychology reports, textbooks may also be… biased. Researchers Christopher Ferguson, Jeffrey Brown, and Amanda Torres set out to explore this bias specifically in regard to the basic psychology textbooks

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  • Study: Teens With Very Conservative Parents Most Likely to Have Excellent Mental Health

    Study: Teens With Very Conservative Parents Most Likely to Have Excellent Mental Health8

    Adolescents who have “very conservative” parents are 16 to 17 percent more likely to have good or excellent mental health compared to teenagers with liberal parents, according to new research by Gallup. The fascinating finding was made in June 2023 and features in a comprehensive report published last month by the independent, non-partisan Institute for

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  • Study: Teaching Kids Philosophy Makes Them Smarter

    Study: Teaching Kids Philosophy Makes Them Smarter0

    Does teaching younger children philosophy make them smarter? A “large, well-designed study” conducted by the Education Endowment Foundation suggests that the answer is yes. As Quartz reports: “Nine- and 10-year-old children in England who participated in a philosophy class once a week over the course of a year significantly boosted their math and literacy skills,

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  • Study: Teacher Development Courses are Ineffective

    Study: Teacher Development Courses are Ineffective0

    • August 17, 2015

    Teacher development courses are ineffective. Common sense reached that conclusion long ago. But fortunately, there’s now a study that confirms it entitled “The Mirage: Confronting the Hard Truth About Our Quest for Teacher Development.” According to The Boston Globe, “The study released Tuesday by TNTP, a nonprofit organization, found no evidence that any particular approach

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  • Study: Students Learn Better from Hot Teachers

    Study: Students Learn Better from Hot Teachers0

    When it comes to America’s educational woes, maybe the problem isn’t a ?“dumbed-down” curriculum or a lack of student effort… Maybe the problem is that there are too many ugly teachers? Okay, that’s just a bit of an exaggeration. However, a new study conducted by University of Nevada researchers and published in the Journal of General

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