This short review examines Chapter 5 of Sarah M. Stitzlein's "Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era: Emphasizing Truth in the Education of Citizens," concentrating on "The Role of Honesty in Teaching About Controversial Issues." Emphasizing what I call "zetetic avoidance creep" (ZAC), the review explores how teachers may…

Child Care in State Economies (2024) is a three-part series examining the current status of the paid child care industry in the U.S. The reports provide policymakers and other stakeholders with a detailed update on the status of the paid child care industry following unprecedented disruption during the recent COVID-19 public health pandemic. This…

This report provides insights into the career paths, responsibilities, and job satisfaction of registrars across the United States. It serves as a benchmark for trends in the field and offers guidance to those aspiring to become registrars or seeking to advance their careers in this dynamic profession. The data in this profile confirms and builds…

Caregivers play an important role in effective social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions for their children. The Collaborative for Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) states on the family partnerships page on its website, "When educators and families are partners in children's social and emotional development, the benefits go two…

The current study investigated whether vocabulary relates to phonetic categorization at neural level in early childhood. Electroencephalogram (EEG) responses were collected from 53 Dutch 20-month-old children in a passive oddball paradigm, in which they were presented with two nonwords "giep" [[voiced velar fricative]ip] and…

In this "Perspective on Practice," we describe how we interpreted, built on, and adapted the design principles shared in "The Content-Focused Methods Course: A Model for Integrating Pedagogy and Mathematics Content" by Steele and Hillen (2012). Using evidence of learning from that report as a foundation, we provide insights…

To train two-versus-two sports, it is beneficial to play regularly with varying teammates and opponents of similar skill level. However, even in small classes, it is almost impossible for a human instructor to maintain an accurate overview of each student's skill development to optimize teams and pairings accordingly. Therefore, we propose an…

In the spring of 2019, the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research (Belk Center) began collaborating with ATD to better understand the work of teaching and learning in a cohort of institutions in the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS), within the context of future collaboration with, and support of, the System's…

Conducted periodically since 2010, the "NACUBO National Profile of Higher Education Chief Business Officers" draws a picture of the "typical" cabinet-level postsecondary chief business officer (CBO) and how the role has changed over time. The National Profile contains information on career paths, current areas of…

Young children today are exposed to masks on a regular basis. However, there is limited empirical evidence on how masks may affect word learning. The study explored the effect of masks on infants' abilities to fast-map and generalize new words. Seventy-two Chinese infants (43 males, M[subscript age] = 18.26 months) were taught two novel…

This guidebook is designed to help generate successful professional learning communities (PLCs) by providing a set of steps one may wish to consider when developing, recruiting for, and facilitating PLCs. Some aspects may not be relevant to a PLC (each PLC is unique), but this guidebook provides the structure to get started. In following the steps…

The gaming industry, expected to exceed $300 billion in global revenue by 2025, offers unique challenges and opportunities for academic programs and the traditional collegiate curriculum development process. This research discusses how game design curricula can evolve to meet those demands through sustainability and preparing graduates to be…

The general expectation for many successful educational innovations is to "scale up" the project. Based on interviews with participating teachers, facilitators and administrators, this research shares findings from the "scaling up" stage of a federally funded mathematics project designed to help teachers reach a wide range of…

This study aimed to identify the level of applying talent management and achieving career stability among academic leaders at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University (AHU), and to investigate the relation between talent management and its domains with career stability. The study population consisted of all the (55) administrative academics in Al-Hussein…

The purpose of this ethnographic research was to uncover the experiences of culturally diverse women participating in an online business strategy course and to evaluate the impact of virtual collaboration on social connectedness among this group. This study was situated within a national organization for women of color who are entrepreneurs. Data…