Education is a process of imparting knowledge. It is typically associated with the formal, systematic process that includes schools and trained teachers, but also includes the informal "word-of-mouth" method where knowledge is imparted through the telling of stories and folk-tales.
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Do 20% of Australian children think pasta comes from animals?
Prominently displayed on the front page of noted nutrition advocate Jamie Oliver's web page is the claim that "20% of Australian children think pasta comes from animals".
A google search shows that this meme has spread quite a bit, almost…
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Do number systems in native languages affect math performance?
This blog post said that Asians are good at math because Asian languages have less-confusing number systems:
So if it’s not the schools, what accounts for Asians succeeding in math across different education systems? As English speakers, we may be…
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Is sexual harassment of girls increasing in schools?
This article claims that experts told UK MP's that sexual harassment is increasing in schools because of internet pornography. However, I haven't seen any references to studies done on the subject so I'd like to see where the facts stand.
Note that…
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Did Ed Trice force the rescoring of a national standardized math test?
"What's the largest number you can represent with 3 digits? Nope. It's not 999." is the title of a LinkedIn blog post by Ed Trice of Lightning Cloud Computing. Since its publication on 16 March 2016 it has been widely shared in social media. The…
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Did Massachusetts have a higher literacy rate before compulsory schooling?
As per the title. This claim was made in the book "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling" by John Taylor Gatto. He makes numerous dubious claims, however this one interested me most (p. 67):
A Massachusetts Senator said a…
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Is college worth the cost for most Americans?
A recent Pew survey found:
A majority of Americans (57%) say the higher education system in the United States fails to provide students with good value for the money they and their families spend.
Is a college education a good Return On Investment…
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Did an American kindergarten teach children the alphabet using corporate logos?
On Reddit, Facebook and elsewhere, a picture went mildly viral claiming that in the USA, a kindergarten is using corporate logos to teach the alphabet:
The posts or their comments do not include any information about this (only speculation,…
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In California, does it cost more to send someone to prison than to send them to Stanford?
According to Bernie Sanders' Facebook page:
Is this statement true?
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Do only 49% of Americans know which country bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
From Alternet: Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We?, July 1, 2008 (referring to polls conducted over the past three decades):
Which country dropped the nuclear bomb? Only 49% [of Americans polled] know it was their own
country.
Do (or did…
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Are classrooms with students of the same age a counter-productive way to learn?
Sir Kenneth Robinson in one of his speeches raised doubts about educating children according to their age group.
A summation of the claim, that starts at 06:34 of the video, is that our current system of education is modelled on the interests and…
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Does the Suzuki method outperform other music teaching methods?
The Suzuki method is influenced by the violinist Suzuki's observations of how children learn to speak their mother tongue. Some of the characteristics of the method are
learning music by ear is emphasized over reading musical notation
increasing…
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Did the ACLU prepare a lawsuit against The Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem for gender discrimination?
The Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem, formerly known as the The Young Women's Leadership Academy, is an all-girls charter school in Manhattan. The school's Wikipedia page contains an interesting statement:
While the American Civil…
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Is self-discipline more important than IQ in predicting academic performance?
There is one highly cited (>1K citations in Google Scholar) study titled "Self-discipline outdoes IQ in predicting academic performance of adolescents", and quoting from its abstract:
Self-discipline measured in the fall accounted for more than…
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When is praise for children harmful?
There seems to be a growing movement of people who thing that praise is bad for children, as for example on the Not School blog. The thesis seems to be:
A child who receives praise, rewards, and constant evaluation through testing and grading will…
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Does West Virginia have higher literacy rates than states like New York, California and New Jersey?
In response to Bette Midler saying that West Virginia is moving backward, and is poor, illiterate and strung out, (she apologised but didn't retract the statement as untrue) it's been claimed that West Virginia has higher literacy rates than highly…
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