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Information literacy in the age of search engines
Search engines answer in seconds, so judging sources is now the hard part. What information literacy means, where it came from, and what classroom trials find.
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Teacher shortages: where the numbers stand and what may ease them
Federal surveys found 45 percent of public schools with open teaching posts in 2022; the evidence blames low pay, weak support, and burnout, and points to two kinds of fixes.
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How newsrooms pick which science stories make the cut
Newsroom choices run on news values and inherited framing: a 2021 study found 69.5 percent of headlines on mouse studies dropped the mice, and a 2026 experiment tested a fix.
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Reading aloud: the oldest literacy tool that still works
Reading aloud is the core of clinic literacy programs that hand families books. A 2023 review and a 2026 randomized trial document more reading days at home and real language gains.
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Research Rabbit and the tools that map an idea's family tree
Citation-mapping tools trace a paper backward to its foundations and forward to its offspring. Here is what they can and cannot tell you.
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Why the science podcast boom brought research to more ears
Scientists host most science podcasts, listening hit record shares of Americans in 2024, and the first big census of the genre traced its climb from 2004 to 2018.
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How school funding works: a plain-English guide to the money
Schools run on three streams: local property taxes, state aid, and a small federal share. The mix explains most gaps between districts, and the spending record is humbling.
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What works in adult literacy when school is long over
Adult literacy programs deliver real but small reading gains. A 2011 trial of 198 adults, UNESCO’s 2025 count, and PIAAC surveys show what the evidence supports.
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How to write a research paper that people actually read
A clear argument, an honest methods section and a limitations paragraph you are proud of will do more for a paper than any clever phrase.
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The science of reading: how brains crack the code
Decades of research point to one skill at the center of learning to read — and it explains why classrooms keep changing.