Americans stand out internationally for their pessimism about the nation’s political system | Pew Research Center People in higher-income countries are generally less likely to say their nation’s political system needs major changes or complete reform. Americans are an exception.

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Think you're too young or too smart to fall for a scam?
The people most at risk aren't who you'd expect.

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When the gut is out of balance, it triggers chronic systemic inflammation and that inflammation sends direct signals to the cells responsible for breaking down bone.

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Citation Cartels, Dismissive Literature Reviews, and Big Money Dominate US Education Policy
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Why Independent Magazines Are Dying The Liberal Patriot’s closure reveals how donor demands and foundation neglect threaten publications that challenge ideological orthodoxy.

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When schools ask students to figure things out on their own, they're asking them to build on a foundation that disappears instantly.

Research proves there's a better way.

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Meta and Google Found Liable for Addictive Content Delivery On March 25, 2026, mega tech companies Meta and Google were found liable for engineering the presentation of information on their platforms in such a way as to promote addiction to users. The key h…

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Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences - Nature A study of reproducibility in a stratified random sample of 600 papers published from 2009 to 2018 in 62 journals spanning the social and behavioural sciences finds higher reproducibility among more&n...

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Retrieval Practice and Stress (repost) — The Learning Scientists I recently remembered this post about retrieval practice and stress. I was talking to one of my students about r etrieval practice and stress, and went back to the blog to help me remember some aspec...

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The Shortcut That Made College Harder How California’s math reform left some students behind.

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Think you're immune to misinformation? Every expert we've talked to says that's the first sign you're not.

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Cancer's biggest weapon is silence. Most cancers don't announce themselves until they've already spread. But your blood tells a different story.

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Forgetting where you put something is normal. Forgetting what that thing is or how to use it? That's when you should start paying attention.

Stop Googling your symptoms at 2 AM and listen to our latest episode instead.
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People who live past 100 aren’t sick for decades.

Blue Zones show how lifestyle extends life. Centenarians take it a step further.

So what matters more - Blue Zones or your genes?

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What the Oscars’ Ranked Choice Voting can teach us about fixing American democracy. On Sunday night, millions of Americans will watch the Academy Awards. They may tune in for the red carpet, Conan O'Brien’s jokes, or the live performance of the hit song “Golden.” But behind the glitz...

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Empowering Independent Voters Can Fix Primary Elections Not long ago, almost no one talked about the rules and culture of primary elections. Today, there is a growing recognition that the way we run primary elections isn’t working. They’re too partisan. To...

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Hegseth’s war on Anthropic is the wrong answer to the right question The government is too reliant on private software vendors for core mission work and AI will make this much worse. Forcing companies to work at gunpoint won’t fix things.

Hegseth’s war on Anthropic is the wrong answer to the right question
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Oklahoma Legislature Passes Resolution Urging Congress to Advance Constitutional Amendment on Election Spending Amid a surge in outside spending nationwide ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, the Oklahoma Legislature has unanimously passed a resolution urging Congress to propose a constitutional amendment rest...

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... and some of you thought the federal education department and its conglomerate of contractors might disappear. The bureaucracy cannot be killed.

#edusky #academicsky

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How Teens Use and View AI Just over half of U.S. teens say they've used chatbots for help with schoolwork, and 12% say they’ve gotten emotional support from these tools. Teens tend to view AI's future impact on their lives mor...

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How the National Popular Vote Compact Can Finally Reduce Money's Influence in Presidential Politics Reducing the influence of money pouring into presidential politics since the 2010 Citizens United decision may actually be possible by addressing the "winner-take-all" (WTA) structure of the Electoral...

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Dr. Richard Phelps on Post-MCAS Assessments & Accountability in MA On this week’s episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts Alisha Searcy of the Center for Strong Public Schools and Mary Tamer of MassPotential speak with Dr. Richard Phelps, the author of Pioneer Instit...

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Stop blaming women's brains. Start understanding the actual numbers.

Neuroscientist Dr. Lise Eliot sets the record straight on this week's Critically Speaking.

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Dr. Lise Eliot has spent years examining the research on brain sex differences. What she found: most of it doesn't hold up and are often designed to confirm what we already believe.

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Insider Trading and the Wolves of Capitol Hill: The 29 Congressional members that beat the street in 2025

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Economics is fundamentally political The dangerous illusion of economics as a value-free science

Economics is fundamentally political
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Why Trump’s Attack on Refugees Could Hurt Grandma It’s immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries who care of our elderly, and nobody’s lining up to take their place.

Why Trump’s Attack on Refugees Could Hurt Grandma
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Can love fix racism? Or does racism have to end before real love across racial lines can flourish?

Dorothy Roberts shares her thoughts on love, race, and what has to change first.

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Trump’s elections Chimera The plan to subvert 2026 is already underway

Trump’s elections Chimera
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Study Urges New K–12 Accountability Framework Following End of MCAS Graduation Requirement Calls for choices of high school pathways, early and end-of-course exams, and independent district accountability

pioneerinstitute.org/study-urges-... Massachusetts education #edusky #academicsky