Information literacy in the age of search engines
Search engines answer in seconds, so judging sources is now the hard part. What information literacy means, where it came from, and what classroom trials find.
By Bianca Torres • November 2, 2026
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Media literacy: Five questions that make any headline easier to judge
Media literacy comes down to five plain questions about publisher, evidence, and independent coverage. Research from 2019 found professional fact checkers judge web pages faster and better by leaving the page first.
By Samuel Achebe • November 1, 2026
Education News
Teacher shortages: where the numbers stand and what may ease them
Federal surveys found 45 percent of public schools with open teaching posts in 2022; the evidence blames low pay, weak support, and burnout, and points to two kinds of fixes.
By Samuel Achebe • October 31, 2026
Science News
How newsrooms pick which science stories make the cut
Newsroom choices run on news values and inherited framing: a 2021 study found 69.5 percent of headlines on mouse studies dropped the mice, and a 2026 experiment tested a fix.
By Victor Petrov • October 31, 2026
Research Rabbit and the tools that map an idea's family tree
Citation-mapping tools trace a paper backward to its foundations and forward to its offspring. Here is what they can and cannot tell you.
By Samuel Achebe • October 27, 2026
How to write a research paper that people actually read
A clear argument, an honest methods section and a limitations paragraph you are proud of will do more for a paper than any clever phrase.
By Samuel Achebe • October 21, 2026
Two Air Force lab projects show how research survives on thin details
An autonomous shotgun and a blood recirculation machine are both in development at the Air Force Research Laboratory. What the reporting supports — and what it does not.
By Samuel Achebe • September 29, 2026
Research
News — Georgia State Opens a Research Tower: How to Read a University Building Announcement
A nine-story lab building is a promise, not a result. Here is what the numbers in such announcements can and cannot tell you.
By Tobias Lange • September 22, 2026
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Innovation meaning: what the word really carries in business and science
A new thing is not an innovation until someone uses it and value moves. The definition is stricter than the marketing suggests.
By Bianca Torres • October 7, 2026
Literacy
Baseline Characteristics: How to Spot When a Study Compares Apples to Oranges
Two groups, one bold headline, and a hidden factor nobody mentioned. Learn how confounding and selection bias make studies compare apples to oranges, and how to spot it yourself.
By Bianca Torres • October 9, 2026
Education News
How school funding works: a plain-English guide to the money
Schools run on three streams: local property taxes, state aid, and a small federal share. The mix explains most gaps between districts, and the spending record is humbling.
By Tobias Lange • October 27, 2026
Literacy
How bad is the literacy crisis in the numbers?
National tests show a real reading slide: 31 percent of fourth-graders at Proficient, more adults at the lowest levels. The crisis label depends on the bar.
By Samuel Achebe • October 19, 2026
Types of innovation — Incremental vs disruptive innovation: a field guide
Incremental change fills in the gaps; disruption starts cheap and grows. Schumpeter’s split and Christensen’s 1995 theory, with the case that broke its own rules.
By Samuel Achebe • October 22, 2026
How surgeons and medtech companies learn to work together at IRCAD North America
A Charlotte training center shows why device innovation fails in the operating room when nobody practices the whole setup.
By Bianca Torres • October 13, 2026
Frugal innovation: how constraint shapes low-cost invention
Why some of the world's most useful devices come from tight budgets, and what the word 'frugal' actually carries into engineering.
By Bianca Torres • September 27, 2026
Why a consulate-run science summit in Atlanta is worth part of your attention
The 3rd France-Atlanta Science & Innovation Summit is small news with a readable signal: governments now court researchers the way brands court customers.
By Bianca Torres • September 24, 2026
Plain language: why clear writing is a science, not a style
Clear writing has tools, dates, and laws: Flesch-Kincaid in 1975, the Plain Writing Act in 2010, and an ISO standard in 2023. Here is what the evidence shows.
By Tobias Lange • October 30, 2026
Reading aloud: the oldest literacy tool that still works
Reading aloud is the core of clinic literacy programs that hand families books. A 2023 review and a 2026 randomized trial document more reading days at home and real language gains.
By Priya Vaithilingam • October 28, 2026
Literacy
What works in adult literacy when school is long over
Adult literacy programs deliver real but small reading gains. A 2011 trial of 198 adults, UNESCO’s 2025 count, and PIAAC surveys show what the evidence supports.
By Yasmin Haddad • October 24, 2026
Literacy
What the literacy rate in the US actually measures
The literacy rate in the US is a skill ladder, not a pass-fail count. What the 2023 federal numbers show, and why method changes blur the trend.
By Bianca Torres • October 23, 2026
Why the science podcast boom brought research to more ears
Scientists host most science podcasts, listening hit record shares of Americans in 2024, and the first big census of the genre traced its climb from 2004 to 2018.
By Bianca Torres • October 27, 2026
Science news for students: how a youth newsroom adapts research
Youth science news is its own journalism. One newsroom has rewritten research for readers as young as nine since 2003, tuning vocabulary and adding teacher aids without weakening the reporting.
By Samuel Achebe • October 18, 2026
Science News
The replication crisis explained: when famous findings fail
Why landmark results sometimes collapse when other scientists repeat them, and what open science is doing about it.
By Tobias Lange • October 3, 2026
Science News
The semaglutide heart trial that changed the obesity-drug conversation, in close-up
The SELECT trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2023, found semaglutide cut major cardiovascular events by a fifth in adults with existing heart disease and overweight — a benefit independent of diabetes.
By Samuel Achebe • August 26, 2026
Bilingual education benefits — Bilingual education: what the research shows, and what it doesn't
Dual-language classrooms are often praised and often doubted. The honest picture is more measured than either camp suggests.
By Victor Petrov • October 1, 2026
What Is Innovation in Education? Classrooms That Keep Changing
The word shows up in every school brochure. Here is what it actually means, and how to tell a real change from a renamed one.
By Victor Petrov • September 30, 2026
Education News
Standardized testing debate — Standardized testing: how exams became gatekeepers and what may replace them
The standardized testing debate is really a question about fairness: same exam for everyone, but is the same exam measuring the same things?
By Victor Petrov • September 25, 2026
Education News
Why institutional review boards slow down research (and why that matters)
The committees that protect study volunteers also add months to timelines. The trade-off is deliberate, but the delays have grown.
By Victor Petrov • September 13, 2026