Why do South African teachers still threaten children with a beating? A psychologist explains

Teachers believed that corporal punishment encouraged children to focus: All three generations of teachers in the study ...
WUSF Public Media

California study has lessons for efforts to protect workers from excessive heat

A new study finds that California's rules protecting workers from excessive heat likely save dozens of lives every year. This comes as the federal government considers national heat-protection rules.
Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Urban Planning Researchers Study Past Infrastructure Harms to Avoid Repeating Them

Researchers at the recent 2025 CTS Transportation Research Conference presented their findings on equitable transportation ...
CNN

Nearly a third of American teens interact with AI chatbots daily, study finds

Nearly a third of US teenagers say they use AI chatbots daily, a new study finds, shedding light on how young people are embracing a technology that’s raised critical safety concerns around mental ...
Psychology Today

The Lessons of “The Trick-or-Treat Study”

One of my favourite social psychology/social cognition studies is what I have come to refer to as the trick-or-treat study. Specifically, I’m talking about the research conducted by Diener and ...
The Hechinger Report

Some social emotional lessons improve how kids do at school, Yale study finds

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Social emotional ...
KQED

Some Social Emotional Lessons Improve How Kids do at School, Yale Study Finds

Social emotional learning — lessons in soft skills like listening to people you disagree with or calming yourself down before a test — has become a flashpoint in the culture wars. The conservative ...
Mercury News

How to defend a home from wildfire: UC Berkeley researchers’ lessons from infernos

Lessons learned from catastrophic and deadly wildfires that ravaged California in recent years could help residents and communities in and near forested areas limit damage from future fires, a ...
Harvard Business Review

Case Study: A Fast-Food Company Considers Dynamic Pricing

Marcus Patel felt a mixture of pride and unease as he stood at the head of the conference table, waiting for his leadership team to gather. Two years ago he’d been recruited from Silicon Valley to ...
Law

Training Alone Is Not Enough: Lessons From 'Recentive' and USPTO AI Examples on Patent Eligible Machine-Learning Claims

The Recentive decision exemplifies the Federal Circuit’s skepticism toward claims that dress up longstanding business problems in machine-learning garb, while the USPTO’s examples confirm that ...
Frontiers

Educational innovations for an inclusive learning environment: insights from the teachers' collaboration through lesson study

1 College of Public Affairs and Development, Institute for Governance and Rural Development, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines 2 Faculty of Education and Society, Department ...