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A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge has found that Eurasian jays are less likely than people to be deceived by well-known magic tricks. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their motivation for testing birds with magic...
The Navajo Nation was heavily impacted by the pandemic, and some of the most excess deaths occurred in Navajo County, Arizona. Here, a Navajo elder and his family pose near the town of Steamboat in neighboring Apache County, Arizona.
Why students end up at one school instead of another can be a bit mysterious—the product of “screening” algorithms that more than 100 high schools in the city customize and then use to decide which students to admit, often using variables like test scores, attendance, and behavioral records that...
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) offer rich opportunities for both science and language learning. This article presents science and language instructional shifts, grounded in the NGSS and contemporary thinking in second language acquisition. First, we describe three science instructional...
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