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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.
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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.
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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 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?
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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.
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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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Grant review process: 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.