February 26, 2021
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What public school students are allowed to say on social media may be about to change
Student speech in public schools has less protection than speech by adults in the community at large. Noam Galai/Getty Images Scott F. Johnson, ... -
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NASA to Honor ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson During Headquarters Naming Ceremony
Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk will lead a ceremony at 1 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 26, officially naming the NASA Headquarters building in ...February 26, 2021 -
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Google’s program for Black college students suffered disorganization and culture clashes, former participants say
First announced in 2017, Google’s Howard West program was envisioned as a way to train more Black college students for the rigors of a ...February 21, 2021 -
Mothers who earned straight A’s in high school manage the same number of employees as fathers who got failing grades
Leadership opportunities for even the most academically successful girls are few. SDI Productions/E+ via Getty Images Jill Yavorsky, University ...February 15, 2021 -
New postage stamp honors Chien-Shiung Wu, trailblazing nuclear physicist
Chien-Shiung Wu’s experiments were instrumental in supporting some of the biggest 20th-century theories in physics. Bettmann via Getty ...February 15, 2021 -
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US drops discrimination lawsuit against Yale
The Justice Department on Wednesday dropped an affirmative action lawsuit the Trump administration had filed against Yale ...February 3, 2021 -
The perils of associating ‘white’ with ‘privilege’ in the classroom
When minority groups are exposed to stereotypes that deem them inferior, they often underachieve academically, research shows. Terry Vine/The Image ...January 26, 2021 -
Unis want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly back academics to do it?
Life and Times/Shutterstock Margaret Kristin Merga, Edith Cowan University and Shannon Mason, Nagasaki University Academics are increasingly ...January 26, 2021