To address bias in medical education, we introduced the Upstate Bias Checklist (BC) in the first- and second-year curriculum and trained faculty through a development series. Eighty-one faculty participated, with 40 completing a follow-up survey assessing satisfaction, perceived relevance, and readiness to apply content. Eighty-five percent…

The childcare sector holds vital implications for community development. Overcoming barriers to access and affordability requires a nuanced understanding of this complex sector, a requirement that is further complicated by limited data availability. This paper reviews key data sources and uses historical business data to explore and analyze trends…

Background: Given the importance of school connectedness for healthy adolescent development, this scoping review aimed to identify and describe intervention strategies used to increase school connectedness among adolescents. Methods: Guided by the Arksey and O'Malley framework, we conducted a scoping review of school-based intervention studies…

This paper shows that effective reskilling can have profound mental health benefits for workers and their partners. Using institutional variation in access to higher education after work accidents in Denmark, we find that reskilling prevents one case of depression for every three injured workers. Strikingly, the spillover effects on partners are…

Global research identifies school leadership as a critical factor in school success and effectiveness, especially in an educational reform environment with an ever-increasing number of schools working within public-private partnerships, a feature that characterises the United Arab Emirates. To aid leadership development and practices in a…

Educational neuroscience was born out of the promise that brain imaging would generate discoveries that change how we educate our children. Many neuroscientists and educators alike feel that this promise has not been fulfilled and have begun to question the utility of this nascent field that is arising at the intersection of two well-established…

The study examines Greek and Turkish teachers' perspectives on the role of outdoor play in fostering children's sustainable development. Outdoor play extends learning beyond the classroom, promoting holistic growth and environmental stewardship. The research is designed according to qualitative research methodology and case study pattern. In…

Increasing calls for greater STEM-integrated experiences in K-12 education have spawned numerous studies on teacher beliefs, educational goals, and practices for teaching and learning. However, how the field proposes to support the development of teachers' STEM-integrated disciplinary knowledge appears to be under-researched. In this systematic…

The upholding of children's rights to develop their identity as citizens in a bicultural country is contingent with teachers' capacity to co-construct bicultural curriculum with children and whanau in ECE. Te Whariki provides a framework around which teachers can work with whanau and children to localise teaching and learning experiences. In doing…

Empowered women are a major factor in advancing towards progress and prosperity via national development. But national development plans have received very limited academic analysis. A quantitative descriptive research design was used to discern what actually exists in Saudi Arabia's recent national development plan ("Vision 2030")…

This study examined whether grandparental support is a protective factor for children's socio-emotional development in the context of adversity. Using longitudinal data from the Millennium Cohort Study, we investigated the effects of grandparental support across development in children with and without adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).…

To address the question of how to develop the capacity for every instructional coach to provide job-embedded professional learning for every teacher and student, the Utah State Board of Education's quality instruction team designed and built a statewide 22 networked professional learning system that includes instructional coaches, local education…

The rapid growth of digital devices in recent years has caused significant effects on children's screen time. Advancements in technology usage have a particularly strong impact on children in an era dominated by digital advancements, influencing their education, entertainment, communication, and socialisation, raising concerns about the…

The Global Annual Results Report 2024 on Goal Area 2 of the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022-2025 presents results on the education programme, policy and advocacy efforts supported by UNICEF and its partners around the world to protect and fulfill the right of children to education. This programme covers two result areas: (1) Equitable and inclusive…

The Skills Imperative 2035 is a five-year strategic research programme which is investigating future skills needs, skills supply and skill development, with a particular focus on the 'Essential Employment Skills' (EES) that are projected to be most vital across the labour market in 2035. This paper investigates childhood skill development and…