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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Can young children in the United States not identify common fruits and vegetables
On the television show Jame Oliver's Food Revolution there is a memorable scene, when he asks a Grade 1 class (I think) to identify common vegetable, such as potatoes, tomatoes, broccoli and radishes. The children could not identify many of them.
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Do performance based scholarships increase grade inflation?
For instance, in this wikipedia there is the (un-cited) criticism that a specific scholarship has led to grade inflation.
HOPE has been blamed for increased levels of grade inflation in Georgia schools, with teachers feeling pressured to give their…
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Politicians claim there have been big "cuts" to education, has this ever occurred?
Some media have in the past reported that the education has been/or will be cut by the GOP at the federal level.
For example: Bush Cuts Education 2002 budget.
May 2, 2002 Sen Jack Reed of Rhode Island assailed the administration's proposed cuts.…
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Do "digital natives" process information in fundamentally different ways
Marc Prensky defines the term digital natives, referring to people who were born after digital computers were popular.
He claims that they process information in fundamentally different ways.
Our students have changed radically. Today’s students…
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Is at least $70 million in health care costs in the USA directly attributable to low literacy?
According to the Gaston Literacy Council of Gastonia, North Carolina:
Reports show that low literacy directly costs the healthcare industry over $70 million every year.
That website does not provide a specific citation for that assertion, but does…
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Does the PX Project increase reading speed by an average of 386%?
Wanting to improve my own reading speed, I found the following as the first result of a Google search:
The PX Project, a single three-hour cognitive experiment, produced an average increase in reading speed of 386 percent.
It was tested with…
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Are "young white boys... educationally underprivileged"?
From this announcement:
Applications for the Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant, a college tuition
grant created by Breitbart News Senior Editor MILO exclusively for
white men, are now being accepted.
Yiannopoulos explains the justification for the…
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Did almost half of 1000 adults fail a fifth-grade math test?
On several YouTube videos, one being this one, the descriptions of these videos include something like:
Recent studies have shown that almost HALF of over 1000 adults tested were unable to pass a maths test designed for FIFTH GRADERS! We put this…
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Does this video depict an accurate example of a Common Core math problem?
The following article has been circulating which includes a video that demonstrations a Common Core math problem: "This Common Core Math Problem Is So Absurdly Difficult It Stumps College Students and Teachers" via Independent Journal Review. In the…
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Has knowledge in mathematics in teenagers decreased through time?
I have been told that the level of knowledge in mathematics is much lower today than twenty or fifty years ago. Is it true?
I'm looking for statistics that present the level of knowledge in mathematics of teenagers (or slightly older) versus time…
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Do high-school-leaving exams decide your future?
Tomorrow my daughter will take her Gaokao exams. This is China's national end of high school exam for university entrance - something akin to Americas SAT or GRE exams. It is commonly said that such exams, "Decide their fate."
However, there are…
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Do people who write down their goals achieve them?
In my high school 10 years ago, and at least 10 years prior and to this day, the staff has been using the Power of Positive Students (POPS) program to motivate students to do better and stuff.
They made the claim that people who write down their…
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Was 10-year old Australian girl assigned homework to discuss erections and ejaculations with her father?
The Paradise writes
Australian MP: 10-year-old School Girls Assigned Homework to Ask Their Dads About “Erections and Ejaculation”
Original clip about the matter can be viewed on channel claiming to be Official YouTube channel of Bernie Finn MP -…
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Is there a bill in Iowa that bans the teaching of sexism, slavery, and racial segregation?
Is there a critical race theory bill in Iowa
that bans the teaching of the following topics: sexism, slavery,
racial segregation, racial discrimination, including topics related to
the enactment and enforcement of laws resulting in sexism,…
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Are there actual cases of school libraries refusing to lend books to children that are outside their determined reading level?
In the article Three Myths About “Reading Levels” (Feb 28, 2017) published by Psychology Today, it is asserted (emphasis mine):
Unfortunately, though, the ubiquity and precision with which these reading levels are now being tested and reported has…
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