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Why 1904 testing methods should not be used for today's students

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imageWhy are archaic tests being used today?Clemens v. Vogelsang, CC BY

When I was an elementary school student, schools in my hometown administered IQ tests every couple of years. I felt very scared of the psychologist who came in to give those tests.

I also performed terribly. As a result, at one point, I was moved to a lower-grade classroom so I could...

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With #OpISIS, Anonymous hacktivists contribute virtual boots on the ground

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imageAnonymous wants to make sure militant Islamist propaganda video, like this being filmed in Syria, doesn't make it online. Reuters/Stringer

The Islamic State, or ISIS, as well as other terrorist groups, use the internet – and more specifically, social media – as a public relations outlet. They release their public campaigns through...

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Are Texas textbooks making cops more trigger-happy?

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imageAre textbooks having an impact on the framing of race issues?thefuturistics, CC BY-NC

Perusing a passage on the Civil War in a high school student’s history textbook in Texas might leave you wondering if black Americans were ever enslaved and if there really is any truth to anti-black racism at all.

A natural question is, are these textbooks...

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Can Tesla's enthusiast customers help it sell the electric car for the everyperson?

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imageTesla owners with clever license plates: W/O GAS, TSLA 101, SUN ENRG, and SIN CO2.jurvetson/flickr, CC BY-SA

I’m in a parking lot in Menlo Park, California, with Tesla owner Darrell, part of my recent sojourn to the Bay Area to research the culture of electric vehicles.

His bright orange Roadster convertible draws admiring glances from...

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Paper or plastic? How disposable bag bans, fees and taxes affect consumer behavior

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imageWill a tax on disposable bags curb their use?Plastic bags via www.shutterstock.com

Last month, England became the latest government – and last among members of the UK – to pass a policy to combat the recent rise in the use of disposable plastic shopping bags, in its case a five-pence charge for each one.

While English newspapers warned th...

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Many small microaggressions add up to something big

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imageWhat was that supposed to mean?Women image via www.shutterstock.com.

Upon entering a classroom or office for the first time, I frequently take more than a few seconds to place my book bag on the floor. I do this to give the occupants of the room the opportunity to brush aside all assumptions they may have made before meeting me, their professor or...

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  1. Islamic State versus Da'ish or Daesh? The political battle over naming
  2. Why Paris?
  3. The promise and perils of predictive policing based on big data
  4. Why have the demands of black students changed so little since the 1960s?
  5. Up close at the Democratic Debate in Des Moines
  6. How Islamic law can take on ISIS
  7. Paris attacks push progress at Vienna talks on Syria
  8. Paris: the war with ISIS enters a new stage
  9. Deportations punish children most
  10. Egypt's Sisi signals shift toward Muslim Brotherhood
  11. Scientist at work: searching for tiny neutrinos in the South Pole's thick ice
  12. College students go online to learn about sex
  13. How existentialism can shield us from the free market's dark side
  14. The long and troubled racial past of Mizzou
  15. Can listening to music help you sleep?
  16. Yes, eastern coyotes are hybrids, but the 'coywolf' is not a thing
  17. Unsurprised by Missouri – scholars on the roots of racial unrest on campus
  18. Canada could shed its split personality on climate change at Paris talks
  19. Could a smartphone app help stop the next polio outbreak in Pakistan?
  20. Norwegians using 'Texas' to mean 'crazy' actually isn't so crazy
  21. Social Security, Ponzi schemes and why the government isn't 'stealing' your money
  22. Under the sea: Russia, China and American control of the waterways
  23. Human biases hold key to solving both Europe's refugee crisis and climate change
  24. Body hair helps animals stay clean – and could inspire self-cleaning technologies
  25. Does psychotherapy research with trauma survivors underestimate the patient-therapist relationship?
  26. Scholars: Fox Biz did its job, debate highlighted political differences
  27. Does Missouri president ouster offer lessons to universities grappling with a racist past?
  28. In targeting Exxon on climate, New York puts all corporations on notice
  29. Fox relies on polls too much in planning GOP debate
  30. Why the world still needs nonprofits
  31. How ratings-driven presidential debates are weakening American democracy
  32. Academic print books are dying. What's the future?
  33. US and Chinese tempers rise in the South China Sea
  34. Businesses can actually sue you for posting negative reviews – and now Congress is fighting back
  35. If the US had price on carbon, would Keystone XL have made sense?
  36. As the US heads to climate talks, it seeks a plan to 'trust but verify'
  37. How the science of human behavior is beginning to reshape the US government
  38. Teaching assistants like me? Here's what could change
  39. How computers broke science – and what we can do to fix it
  40. Fitness versus fatness: which matters more?
  41. The activists' playbook behind Obama's Keystone rejection
  42. The Keystone XL pipeline debate is over, but our infrastructure needs are not
  43. Hollywood shines a spotlight on real journalism
  44. Jobs report shows why it's time Speaker Ryan and President Obama sat down for a beer
  45. Black Panthers and Black Lives Matter -- parallels and progress
  46. Labor's rank and file still believe in collective bargaining's power to bolster middle class
  47. Think you're reading the news for free? New research shows you're likely paying with your privacy
  48. It's not rocket science: we need a better way to get to space
  49. Will the Arctic shift from a carbon sink to a carbon source?
  50. 'Powerpoint was not his thing': a poem on teaching and technology