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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Does Sallie Mae earn more from defaulted education loans than properly repaid ones?
I was sent an article by Catherine Austin Fitts, the author of the Solari Report, entitled William M. Diefenderfer: The Financial Hit Man of Student Loans. It contained some rather striking claims that I wanted to reproduce here.
She writes this as…
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Are colleges/universities conspiring with book publishers to inflate prices of textbooks?
This video (2:16 to 2:55) makes several rather serious claims in the intro, although it is somewhat believable.
The primary claims are that colleges and universities:
Conspire with book publishers to produce custom textbooks which change…
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Are commercial language proficiency tests reliable indicators of language skills?
In my university, you must take TOEFL in order to graduate. It is not cheap. My English composition teacher told me that the test doesn't represent real English skills. But I got even more shocked when I discovered that those tests are created by a…
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Are there benefits to holding a child back a year before starting kindergarten?
My wife and I are having a bit of a debate (I won't reveal which side I'm on!). Our situation is perfect for this question, as we have two daughters: one was born Sept. 15th, and the other on Aug. 29th.
US schools (or at least here in Minnesota),…
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Do charter schools perform better than other public schools?
I've heard calls for the ordinary public school system in my state to be replaced or supplemented with a charter school system (pdf warning).
Do charter schools perform better or worse than other public schools?
If so, by what measures?
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Does South Korea have more institutions teaching German literature than Germany?
In the Financial Times article on educational achievement, the Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore is noted as claiming in a May 2015 speech that
South Korea has more institutions teaching German literature than Germany does: “How many…
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Do girls get better grades than boys at school?
According to The Atlantic, it's not even a question whether it's true. It's just a question of knowing why.
According to the article it's based on "369 studies involving the academic grades of over one million boys and girls from 30 different…
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Are people getting smarter or stupider in North America?
I've heard that people are complaining everyone are getting dumber because of popular culture and the Internet. I read an article in cracked that said people are actually getting smarter because of improving education. The question is, are people…
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Are there auditory, visual and kinesthetic learners?
It's a common advice to find out whether a child is a auditory, visual or a kinesthetic learner.
For some, auditory input is most valuable; others rely upon a visual style. Still others learn through kinesthetic means, or a combination of the…
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Do older school textbooks detract from the quality of education?
During the First Presidential Debate (October 3, 2012) I heard Barack Obama mention "10 year old textbooks" in a negative way.
It means that the teacher that I met in Las Vegas, wonderful young lady, who describes to me -- she's got 42 kids in her…
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Is Khan Academy effective at teaching?
For a research project I've decided to look at the merits of teaching through video compared to teaching through the medium of a lecture. This lead me to Khan Academy, a website launched in 2006 with the purpose of teaching the masses for free using…
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Do people with ADHD have a college graduation rate of 5%?
I have been seeing people on social media say that the college/university graduation rate of people with ADHD is around only 5%.
According to this Medscape article, ADHD: Recent Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment, by Lenard A. Adler and Julie…
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Are American schools frequently short of essential textbooks?
Computer scientist and journalist Meredith Broussard recently wrote a skeptical perspective on the uses and benefits of computers called Artificial Unintelligence.
One of the stories she tells where technology has failed to help is about parts of…
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Do long-time students at this particular school have an average IQ of 152.6?
This kindergarten guarantees that your child will reach IQ 140: http://toe-academy.jp/
IQ140以上を保証する託児型知能教育 万一未達の場合は教育費を全額返金いたします
Intelligence training that guarantees an IQ over 140. In the unlikely event of not reaching 140, we reimburse all…
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Are many successful entrepreneurs post-secondary education dropouts?
One often hears anecdotes about how successful CEOs / founders / entrepreneurs are college or university dropouts, usually bringing up the same set of examples with one or two CEOs du jour. Most commonly Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, lately also Mark…
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