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Education & Learning News

September 23, 2026

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Scientists Tracked Kids for 8 Years — The Screen Time Result Was Unexpected
Aug. 17, 2026 — An eight-year Finnish study found that children who spent more time on screens tended to show better cognitive processing as teenagers, challenging common assumptions about screen use. Researchers ...
Nearly All Women in STEM Secretly Feel Like Impostors
Jan. 5, 2026 — Nearly all women in STEM graduate programs report feeling like impostors, despite strong evidence of success. This mindset leads many to dismiss their achievements as luck and fear being “found out.” Research links impostorism to worse mental ...
Kids’ Anxiety and Depression Dropped Fast After COVID School Reopenings
Dec. 13, 2025 — Researchers discovered that children who went back to school during COVID experienced far fewer mental health diagnoses than those who stayed remote. Anxiety, depression, and ADHD all declined as in-person learning resumed. Healthcare spending tied ...
Rising Temperatures Are Slowing Early Childhood Development
Dec. 10, 2025 — Researchers discovered that unusually high temperatures can hinder early childhood development. Children living in hotter conditions were less likely to reach key learning milestones, especially in reading and basic math skills. Those facing ...
Why so Many Young Kids with ADHD Are Getting the Wrong Treatment
Sep. 16, 2025 — Preschoolers with ADHD are often given medication right after diagnosis, against medical guidelines that recommend starting with behavioral therapy. Limited access to therapy and physician pressures drive early prescribing, despite risks and reduced ...
9 in 10 Australian Teachers Are Stressed to Breaking Point
Aug. 26, 2025 — Australian teachers are in crisis, with 9 in 10 experiencing severe stress and nearly 70% saying their workload is unmanageable. A major UNSW Sydney study found teachers suffer depression, anxiety, and stress at rates three to four times higher than ...
Guardrails, Education Urged to Protect Adolescent AI Users
June 3, 2025 — The effects of artificial intelligence on adolescents are nuanced and complex, according to a new report that calls on developers to prioritize features that protect young people from exploitation, manipulation and the erosion of real-world ...
Overimitation Begins in Infancy but Is Not yet Linked to In-group Preference
May 26, 2025 — A new study examines the emergence of overimitation in infants aged between 16 and 21 months to see if and how it is linked to social affiliation and other forms of imitation. The researchers found ...
AI Is Here to Stay, Let Students Embrace the Technology, Experts Urge
May 26, 2025 — A new study says students appear to be using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) responsibly, and as a way to speed up tasks, not just boost their ...
Brain Drain? More Like Brain Gain: How High-skilled Emigration Boosts Global Prosperity
May 22, 2025 — As the US national debate intensifies around immigration, a new study is challenging conventional wisdom about 'brain drain'--the idea that when skilled workers emigrate from developing countries, ...
School Dinners May Encourage Picky Teenagers to Eat Better, Says New Study
May 16, 2025 — Having school dinners rather than packed lunches could encourage picky eating 13-year-olds to eat a wider variety of foods, according to a new ...
The Key to Spotting Dyslexia Early Could Be AI-powered Handwriting Analysis
May 14, 2025 — A new study outlines how artificial intelligence-powered handwriting analysis may serve as an early detection tool for dyslexia and dysgraphia among young ...

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Researchers Followed 400,000 Kids for 20 Years and Found a Lasting Pre-K Advantage
Aug. 28, 2026 — A 20-year study of 400,000 students found that children who attended public school pre-K earned better grades and test scores through high school than those in other childcare settings. ...
Teens Sleep Longer and Perform Better When School Starts Later
Mar. 11, 2026 — Teenagers naturally fall asleep later, which makes early school start times a recipe for chronic sleep deprivation. Researchers studying a Swiss high school that introduced flexible start times found ...
War Has Pushed Gaza’s Children to the Brink – “like the Living Dead”
Jan. 11, 2026 — A new study warns that war in Gaza has pushed children to the edge, leaving many too hungry, weak, or traumatized to learn. Education has nearly collapsed, with years of schooling lost to conflict, ...
Think You’re Bad at Languages? Experts Say These 5 Myths Are to Blame
May 21, 2026 — Many people avoid learning a new language because they remember stressful grammar lessons or fear making mistakes. But language experts say communication, culture, and connection matter far more than ...
Science Says We’ve Been Nurturing “gifted” Kids All Wrong
Dec. 21, 2025 — A major international review has upended long-held ideas about how top performers are made. By analyzing nearly 35,000 elite achievers across science, music, chess, and sports, researchers found that ...
Medieval Miracles: Dragon-Slaying Saints Once Healed the Land
Feb. 2, 2026 — New research reveals a forgotten side of medieval Christianity—one rooted not in cathedrals, but in fields, forests, and farms. Historian Dr. Krisztina Ilko uncovers how the Augustinian order built ...
This 100-Year-Old Teaching Method Is Beating Modern Preschools
Jan. 1, 2026 — A first-of-its-kind national trial shows that public Montessori preschool students enter kindergarten with stronger reading, memory, and executive function skills than their peers. These gains ...
Losing a Parent May Increase Children's Risk of Being Bullied
May 7, 2025 — A new study surveyed 21,000 children in China and found that the association between parental bereavement and school bullying varied by sex of the child and deceased parent, age when the death ...
Children as Young as Five Can Navigate a 'Tiny Town'
May 5, 2025 — Neuroscientists are developing methods to map the brain systems that allow us to recognize and get around our ...
Spanking and Other Physical Discipline Lead to Exclusively Negative Outcomes for Children in Low And Middle-Income Countries
May 5, 2025 — Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes -- including poor health, lower academic performance, and impaired social-emotional ...
Our Ability to Recognize Objects Depends on Prior Experience
May 2, 2025 — New findings suggest neurons have much more functional dexterity than scientists previously ...
STEM Students: Work Hard, but Don't Compare Yourself to Others
May 1, 2025 — A new study shows how damaging it can be for college students in introductory STEM classes to compare how hard they work to the extent of effort put in by their ...
Essay Challenge: ChatGPT Vs Students
Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers have been putting ChatGPT essays to the test against real students. A new study reveals that the AI generated essays don't yet live up to the efforts of real students. While the AI ...
Children's Reading and Writing Develop Better When They Are Trained in Handwriting
Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers explored how manual and keyboard practice influenced children's abilities in their reading and writing learning process. 5-year-olds were taught an artificial alphabet using ...
Missed School Is an Overlooked Consequence of Tropical Cyclones, Warming Planet
Apr. 29, 2025 — New research finds that tropical cyclones reduce years of schooling for children in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in areas unaccustomed to frequent storms. Girls are ...
Synchrotron in a Closet: Bringing Powerful 3D X-Ray Microscopy to Smaller Labs
Apr. 29, 2025 — For the first time, researchers can study the microstructures inside metals, ceramics and rocks with X-rays in a standard laboratory without needing to travel to a particle accelerator, according to ...
Using Humor in Communication Helps Scientists Connect, Build Trust
Apr. 28, 2025 — Scientists aren't comedians, but it turns out a joke or two can go a long way. That's according to a new study that found when researchers use humor in their communication -- particularly ...
Global Survey Highlights the Challenges of VR-Haptic Technology in Dental Education
Apr. 25, 2025 — A recent global survey of 156 institutions reveals strong interest in VR-haptic technology for dental training, yet significant barriers impede widespread ...
What Happens in the Brain When Your Mind Blanks
Apr. 24, 2025 — Mind blanking is a common experience with a wide variety of definitions ranging from feeling 'drowsy' to 'a complete absence of conscious awareness.' Neuroscientists and ...
By 15 Months, Infants Begin to Learn New Words for Objects, Even Those They've Never Seen
Apr. 23, 2025 — A new study by developmental scientists offers the first evidence that infants as young as 15 months can identify an object they have learned about from listening to language -- even if the object ...