In just a handful of months, NASA will celebrate the 60th anniversary of American astronauts’ venturing into outer space. Alan Shepard’s 15-moment suborbital experience began the journey. Just two and 50 {0841e0d75c8d746db04d650b1305ad3fcafc778b501ea82c6d7687ee4903b11a} months afterwards Virgil (Gus) Grissom reached a peak of 118 miles, and seven months immediately after that John […]
Day: March 11, 2021
NASA Will Map Every Living Thing on the International Space Station
Astronauts hardly ever vacation to space alone. Every single human being voyaging off-planet is accompanied by up to 100 trillion micro organism, viruses and other microorganisms, any quantity of which could jeopardize human health. Still we are however mainly in the dark about how these communities of microscopic hitchhikers respond […]
Public education at the crossroads: Introduction to the special issue
Introduction to public education: historical and contemporary perspectives In this special issue, authors analyze the role of public education in relation to its historical purpose, considering the history of public education and the evolution of its concepts in relation to nation-building over time, as well as some of the contemporary […]
Bridging the gap between policy and practice: Unpacking the commercial rhetoric of Google for Education
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Making work private: Autonomy, intensification and accountability
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Gender differences in mathematics outcomes at different levels of locality to inform policy and practice
Introduction The investigation of gender differences in students’ attainment has received increasing attention but has historically failed to explain important patterns across cultures and geographies. Recent studies based on national and international surveys have shown that, in many countries, male students achieve a significantly higher mean score than females in […]