When nations go too far
When one nation invades another as Russia did with Ukraine, or when one country attacks civilians and then in retaliation for attacks on its citizenry the other country launches disproportional violence, where …
Phones, devices, and the limits of control: Rethinking school device policies
Key points: By now, it’s no secret that phones are a problem in classrooms. A growing body of research and an even louder chorus of educators point to the same …
Kids 6-12 Need a Strategy for Boosting Their Well-Being – The 74
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter For understandable reasons, a great deal of time and energy around improving child outcomes focuses …
Why Area Studies Matters (opinion)
Area studies, the interdisciplinary study of region-specific knowledge, is under threat in the United States. Some area studies programs are facing immediate dismantling by red-state legislatures. Others, at private universities …
One-third of U.S. public schools screen students for mental health
This press release originally appeared on the RAND site. Key points: Nearly one-third of the nation’s K-12 U.S. public schools mandate mental health screening for students, with most offering in-person …
The Inside Story of How New Orleans Rebooted Its School System After Hurricane Katrina – The 74
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter This is part of a series covering the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, its effects, …
Is Your Idea Op-Ed Ready? Here’s a Test to Find Out
You have expert insights—plenty of them. You give impromptu lectures in office hours, debate podcast guests midrun and readily join boisterous debates over dinner. Maybe you’re even drafting a book …
Trust in elections rises after ‘inoculations’ meant to preempt false fraud claims
New U.S.-Brazil study points to ways of countering election misinformation, political scientists say
Horses may have become rideable with the help of a genetic mutation
Two key gene variants may have made early domesticated horses more tame and more physically resilient to bearing a rider, researchers report August 28 in Science. The resulting horses were …
Warped planet nurseries rewrite the rules of how worlds are born
The textbook picture of how planets form – serene, flat discs of cosmic dust – has just received a significant cosmic twist. New research, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, …