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  • Report: What Today’s High School Seniors Are Reading

    Report: What Today’s High School Seniors Are Reading0

    At the end of last year, Learnalytics (powered by Renaissance Learning) released their report titled What Kids Are Reading, 2016. The report was based on data from 9.8 million students in 31,327 schools during the 2014-15 school year. Among its interesting interactive features is one that allows you to see the most popular books read by

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  • Report: GMO Food is Safe to Eat, But…

    Report: GMO Food is Safe to Eat, But…0

    According to a newly-released report from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), crops grown as genetically modified organisms are safe to eat. Since NAS is probably America’s most prestigious scientific society, that could help tamp down some of the hysteria about the issue. I say ‘could’ because, according to an NPR story discussing the report’s release,

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  • Report: Deep-Thinking Students Don’t Like Their Schools

    Report: Deep-Thinking Students Don’t Like Their Schools0

    Because American parents, teachers, and government leaders value education so highly, they have long impressed its importance upon the minds of their offspring. But the rise of various distractions in recent years – not the least of which is digital entertainment – have caused many to strive to make learning more interesting, active, and fun.

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  • Report: Colleges Stink at Teaching Critical Thinking

    Report: Colleges Stink at Teaching Critical Thinking0

    In recent years, one of the chief goals of the education system – both at the K-12 and college levels – is to train students to be critical thinkers. But while that goal looks great on paper, it often doesn’t translate into practice. As a 2016 study discovered, roughly two-thirds of college graduates believe their

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  • Report: College Students Spend Only 2.8 Hrs Per Day on Their Education

    Report: College Students Spend Only 2.8 Hrs Per Day on Their Education0

    A report released last week by the Heritage Foundation shows that full-time college students spend less than three hours per day on “education-related activities.”  Based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s American Time Use Survey from 2003–2014, during the academic year, the average full-time college student spent only 2.76 hours per day on

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  • Report Says British and American Students Have Low Basic Skills

    Report Says British and American Students Have Low Basic Skills0

    Late last week, scores of British media outlets were obsessing over a new report which found that their students “are the most illiterate in the developed world with many students graduating with only a basic grasp of English and maths.” In looking at the report from the OECD (the organization responsible for the international PISA

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