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We know how kids learn to read, so why are we failing to teach them?

Society

We know how kids learn to read, so why are we failing to teach them?

Researchers are finally getting to grips with how children's brains pick up reading. Now the challenge is to apply this to the classroom to help kids reach their potential in literacy

Features

Screen with ChatGPT chat with AI or artificial intelligence. Man search for information using artificial intelligence chatbot

Technology

Should schools ban ChatGPT or embrace the technology instead?

Analysis

Myopia, or short-sightedness, causes distant objects to appear blurry

Health

Myopia linked to five genetic variants and going to university

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein speaks at SESSION 5 at TED2022: A New Era. April 10-14, 2022, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Photo: Gilberto Tadday / TED

Humans

How I gave a TED talk on dark matter

Comment

UK schools are teaching teenagers about mental health in the wrong way

Mind

UK schools are teaching teenagers about mental health in the wrong way

Comment

classroom

Humans

University students with morning lectures tend to have lower grades

News

Remote-learning technology just isn't good enough and won't be soon

Technology

Remote-learning technology just isn't good enough and won't be soon

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Edward Jenner

Mind

Medics who changed history wouldn't get into modern medical schools

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teenagers getting exam results

Humans

We can't use genetics to predict how well children will do at school

News

Noise pollution can impair attainment at school

Health

Ethnic minority children are exposed to more noise pollution at school

Schoolchildren in the US who are from poorer or ethnic minority backgrounds are much more likely to be exposed to noise pollution from cars and planes

News

Life

Don't miss: Making science happen, a mega-collider and a hypnotic game

Culture

Technology

Smart and fluffy storytelling robot to be trialled in US classrooms

News

Physics

Swelling the number of women in physics will require a broad alliance

Leader

Physics

Women in physics: Why there's a problem and how we can solve it

Features