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Here at The Conversation, research evidence is our bread and butter. It underpins the knowledge our expert authors have accumulated and the articles they write. It’s strange and rather alarming, then, to discover that when it comes to improving how children learn, using methods based on what the research evidence says works is, in fact, not working.
For years, research trials have attempted to discover the best ways to help children learn to read, and these methods have been introduced to schools. But reading ability isn’t really improving. In general, evidence-based educational initiatives in schools aren’t having much of an effect at all. Education expert Sally Riordan has been conducting her own research that gives a hint as to what might be going wrong.
Something I’ve also been trying to comprehend this week is the idea of a meme stock: when the value of stock in a company is driven by social media. It’s something Donald Trump tried to take advantage of for his Trump Media & Technology Group when his social network, Truth Social, launched, but the bubble didn’t last long.
And while silent cancers – which have no symptoms – might seem like something to be deeply worried about, professor of biomedical sciences Justin Stebbing explains that lifestyle choices and screening technologies can help lessen risk and improve detection.
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Grace Allen
Education and Young People Editor
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Sally Riordan, UCL
It is proving very difficult to use research to improve schools.
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Larisa Yarovaya, University of Southampton
Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, went public on Tuesday March 26. Shares in parent company Trump Media & Technology Group surged 15% after its first day of trading on the Nasdaq…
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Justin Stebbing, Anglia Ruskin University
By encouraging patients to adopt preventive lifestyles and have screenings and tests, silent cancers don’t have to be a grave threat to health
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Politics + Society
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Francesco Rigoli, City, University of London
When rightwing politicians talk of bringing back greatness, they are doing it for a reason.
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World
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Elimma C. Ezeani, Brunel University London
The European Union is faced with a difficult choice between supporting Ukraine and putting its farmers at a disadvantage.
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Emma Loosley Leeming, University of Exeter
Georgia is backsliding toward Russia’s sphere of influence.
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Riccardo Gasco, Università di Bologna; Samuele Carlo Ayrton Abrami, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Catholic University of Milan
President Tayyip Erdogan and his party suffered their biggest electoral blow in a nationwide local vote that reasserted the opposition as a political force.
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Science + Technology
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Daniel Read, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Remembering his immense contributions to psychology and economics.
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Adrian Gepp, Bangor University; Milind Tiwari, Charles Sturt University
Food fraud costs billions globally. But blockchain and machine learning offer hope for a more transparent and safer food system.
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Adrian Chappell, Cardiff University
New research reveals our understanding of dust’s role in the environment is far from settled.
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Health
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Stuart Ainsworth, University of Liverpool
The World Health Organization recently recognised noma as a ‘neglected tropical disease’.
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Environment
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Oli Mould, Royal Holloway University of London
Hamaguchi’s new film is a poignant tale of capitalist expansion and the ensuing loss of rural living and environmental decline.
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Sven Batke, Edge Hill University
As temperatures and rainfall patterns change, the time that trees produce catkins could change and affect wildlife that rely on catkins for food.
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Arts + Culture
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Zack Ditch, Nottingham Trent University
Widespread closures mean gay nightlife has been forced to change, but something more exciting is evolving in its place, according to a new book.
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Francesca Stocco, Nottingham Trent University
Textiles have a deceptive simplicity that conceals their potential for subversion and political dissent.
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