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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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ResearchGate explained: what it is and how scholars use it
The Berlin-based network counts tens of millions of researcher accounts. Here is what actually happens on it, and what a careful reader should keep in mind.
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How funding agencies decide which research gets money
Behind most published science sits a grant that someone had to win. Here is how that contest actually works.
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Why retraction notices matter more than most readers realize
A retraction is not a scandal headline. It is the paper trail of science checking its own work.