Category: Education Definition

Cognitive scientists define critical period for learning language | MIT News

Riko Dwianto, 23/05/2025

A great deal of evidence suggests that it is more difficult to learn a new language as an adult than as a child, which has led scientists to propose that there is a “critical period” for language learning. However, the length of this period and its underlying causes remain unknown.

A new study performed at MIT suggests that children remain very skilled at learning the grammar of a new language much longer than expected — up to the age of 17 or 18. However, the study also found that it is almost impossible for people to achieve proficiency similar to that of a native speaker unless they start learning a language by the age of 10.

“If you want to have native-like knowledge of English grammar you should start by about 10 years old. We don’t see very much difference between people who start at birth and people who start at 10, but we start seeing a decline after that,” says Joshua Hartshorne, an assistant professor of psychology at Boston College, who conducted this study as a postdoc at MIT.

People who start learning a language between 10 and 18 will still learn quickly, but since they have a shorter

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Books alone will help us define our identity: Education minister Pradhan | India News

Riko Dwianto, 20/05/2025

He also inaugurated the National Digital Library which includes more than 1000 books in digital and audio format in 22 Indian languages along with English

Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday said that we need to nurture a book-loving society, as books alone will help us define our identity and navigate into the future.

Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the 52nd New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF), Pradhan was lauded by India’s rich heritage of books and literature.

Mankind has an uninterrupted love affair with books. Be it the scrolls of Egypt, the palm leaf and bhojpatra’ manuscripts of India, humans have always found the written word irresistible. Books give us humans our peculiar identities, he said.

He added that book writing, publishing and selling should be seen as a labor of love instead of commerce.

As far as India is concerned, books will never lose their charm. As the knowledge century further unfolds, the book alone will help us define our identity and navigate into the future. a book is an intellectual product, not a commodity. Book writing, publishing and selling therefore cannot just be commerce, it has to be a labor of love, Pradhan said.

As we

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The Definition of Insanity – School News Network

Riko Dwianto, 18/05/2025

Here we go again.

Math Scores Slide to a 20-Year Low on ACT, Education Week breathlessly reported in October.

ACT Scores Show Drop in College Readiness, Especially in Math, blasted the headline in the Wall Street Journal.

ACT Math Scores Sliding, reported Capitol Hill insider publication Politico because, of course, student test scores are as political as the president’s tweets.

Among the more overused and mis-attributed quotes in all of journalism is the old saw that proclaims the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Unfortunately, that describes our national obsession over standardized test scores. Our obsession over these scores is so deeply ingrained in our culture, our politics and our education policy that it makes it almost impossible for educators to actually increase the scores for which they are held accountable.

Yes, the scores are down. One-tenth of one point over a 20-year period. Education Week reports “the average math score for the graduating class of 2018 was 20.5, marking a steady decline from 20.9 five years ago, and virtually no progress since 1998, when it was 20.6.”

I’m not a psychometrician, nor am I a data researcher, so I’m

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ENA Sounds Alarm About Violence Against ED Nurses

Riko Dwianto, 17/05/2025

Classified in: Health

On Capitol Hill, ENA, ACEP and ANA call for laws to mitigate violence in health care

WASHINGTON, March 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Leaders from the Emergency Nurses Association

(PRNewsfoto/Emergency Nurses Association)

The American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Nurses Association joined forces Friday on Capitol Hill to emphasize the need for passage of legislation designed to mitigate the frequency and severity of workplace violence in health care.

During a briefing for congressional staffers, representatives from the three organizations used data and storytelling to build understanding of the impact this ongoing crisis has on health care workers and patients, a situation that is particularly affected in emergency departments which serve as the health care safety net and are open all day, every day.

Among the data highlighted:

The rate of serious injuries related to workplace violence is six-times higher for hospital workers compared to all other private sector employees in the United States.
Studies show emergency nurses and other members of the emergency care team experience a violent event once every two months on average.
Of the nearly 500 members who responded to an ENA survey this year, 56 percent said they had been either verbally assaulted,

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Sask. teacher strikes have made ‘class complexity’ a hot topic. How might it affect your local school?

Riko Dwianto, 14/05/2025

Amid strained contract negotiations between the Saskatchewan government and the province’s teachers, along with rotating strikes and other labor action since January, a phrase from education circles has surfaced among the general public: classroom complexity.

It speaks to a reality in schools today — classes of students with a wide spectrum of abilities and needs. Some pupils require learning supports that aren’t necessarily or readily accessible — and that can affect the experience of everyone in the classroom.

What does a complex class look like?

No class has a homogeneous group of kids, but the makeup of students learning together in classes today is significantly more diverse than in previous generations, according to Regina high school teacher Peggy Welter.

“We see kids who have speech issues. We see kids with learning issues, students who struggle with behavior … some of them are barely able to sit through five minutes of a class,” Welter told CBC Radio’s The Current this week.

“We have kids who are unable to physically do the work due to [struggles with] gross motor skills or fine motor skills… Students who are EAL (English as an additional language) students or refugees, who come with their own set

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We want to define the future of learning: Byju Raveendran

Riko Dwianto, 07/05/2025

New Delhi: Edtech startup Byju’s wants to define the future of learning in India and overseas as learning takes an online path, that may stay beyond the pandemic, said a top executive.

“I want to define the future of learning and create a part of it and find that ideal blended format of learning. I will be happy if I can play a role in defining the online schools of tomorrow,” Byju Raveendran, founder and CEO, Byju’s at the ongoing Resurgence TiEcon Delhi–NCR virtual event on Thursday.

Raveendran said that it is all about finding the right balance between being technology driven, media-enabled content first strategy and believing in the power of self-learning. “Any student who learns on our platform are self-learners so what I am trying to make popular is the love for learning in students not just in India but around the world.”

Edtech firms like Byju’s got a shot in the arm due to the pandemic induced lockdown when learning went online.

“Our biggest challenge was how to bring screen learning in the mainstream, but lockdown led people to take up online education. Our classrooms will be changing for the first time in 100 years,” said Raveendran

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Finland’s ‘teaching by topic’ instead of ‘teaching by subject’ policy actually started in Norway 40 years ago | The Independent

Riko Dwianto, 04/05/2025

It was billed as one of the most radical reforms ever undertaken by a nation state when Finland decided to move away from “teaching by subject” to “teaching by topic – phenomina-based learning, as it has been called.

It was – although it probably would not have been considered as such by anyone who had a connection with the Ringstabekk school just outside Oslo in Norway. The school had embarked on a similar reform 40 years ago.

So it is probably best placed to adjudicate on how such a radical transformation has bedded down.

“Most parents are very satisfied with the school,” said its headteacher Bjorn Bolstad. “They realize that it is actually preparing their kids for a future working life.”

The policy changed kicked in after teachers observed that the pupils were not truly engaged in what they learned at school

As a result they changed to organizing themselves in teams to deliver topic-based lessons. “When teachers are hired at this school (a 425-pupil school for 13 to 16-year-olds), they know very

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Education News: Get the latest education updates along with board exams, competitive exams, school and universities news

Riko Dwianto, 28/04/2025

Published on Mar 24, 2024 01:36 PM IST

The 7 day workshop, held from March 15 to March 21, 2024, aimed to expand the knowledge of human-centric design among engineering professionals and students

The seven-day event, held from March 15 to March 21, 2024, aimed to inculcate an understanding and practice of human-centric design among engineering professionals and students.(Handout)

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UKSSSC recruitment scam: Man carrying reward of ₹ 50,000 arrested from Aligarh

Kashan Khan of Firozabad district is the 47th accused to have been arrested in the UKSSSC recruitment scam. Police efforts are on to nab other accused.

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DU allots ₹67.71 cr for setting up WiFi across its college campuses

The WiFi network will be set up at about 90 colleges of DU, on both north and south campuses and the Dhaka Hostel complex, said an official document.

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QUALITY EDUCATION FOR ALL | The Star

Riko Dwianto, 26/04/2025

AN education system that emphasizes humanity in line with academic progress – this is one of the goals of the Education Ministry’s “Human Education” (humane education) concept.

Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek said the concept is embedded in what the ministry does, to create an education system that nurtures children and youths into becoming well-adjusted, morally grounded and positive contributors to the nation’s growth.

“It is about ensuring no child is left behind in attaining access to quality education,” she said in a recent interview with the media, adding that this embodies the first shift of the Malaysia Education Blueprint (MEB) 2013-2025.

According to the blueprint, education is often seen as an enabler for social mobility, enabling children born in poor families to earn higher incomes as adults.

Fadhlina said the first shift of the blueprint states that the ministry wants to provide equal access to quality education of an international standard.

The ministry’s practice of humanizing education, she added, is completely aligned with the aspirations of the blueprint.

The ministry’s compulsory education policy, which is supported by legislation under the Education Act 1996 [Act 550]obligates children to receive formal education up to Year Six.

Fadhlina said “Humane Education” resonates with

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After pushback from education organizations, Senate edits literacy screening bill

Riko Dwianto, 24/04/2025

By Holly Sullivan, Community News Service

Editor’s note: The Community News Service is a program in which University of Vermont students work with professional editors to provide content for local news outlets at no cost.

The Senate Committee on Education is revising a bill that aims to improve Vermont’s literacy rate — a number that’s been steadily declining for years.

The changes address problems prompted by education officials who said the bill’s language was too limiting and would present problems for schools required to implement them.

“I think the reasoning was just that, [with] this bill, we’re hoping to capture all students who have any kind of learning deficiency or are just struggling readers,” Sen. Martine Gulick, D-Chittenden Central said.

Jay Nichols, executive director of the Vermont Principals’ Association said to committee members Jan. 10 that he agrees with S.204’s goals, but he takes issue with some of its phrasing.

Committee members walked through some potential changes during a Feb. 9. meeting, including getting rid of specific language about follow-ups to literacy screenings, removing language that would require the Agency of Education to approve literacy screeners and changing the state’s definition of an inadequate literacy test.

Children advocacy groups, The

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