Study examines impact of high school teacher and student views of freshmen’s social, emotional needs

Cortez Deacetis

When substantial university freshmen and their lecturers have differing assessments of students’ social capabilities, the students’ attendance and grades are negatively influenced, according to a analyze by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign social perform professor Kevin Tan and alumna Jenna White. Credit: L. Brian Stauffer When substantial university freshmen’s lecturers […]

National Academies, National Science Foundation Create Network to Connect Decision-Makers with Social Scientists on Pressing COVID-19 Questions

Cortez Deacetis

The Nationwide Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medication and the Nationwide Science Basis declared nowadays the development of a Societal Gurus Motion Community (SEAN) to link social and behavioral science scientists with final decision-makers who are major the response to COVID-19. SEAN will answer to the most urgent social, behavioral, […]

COVID-19: Dealing With Social Distancing

Cortez Deacetis

Welcome to another in our collection of Coronavirus episodes of Scientific American’s Science Speak, posted on March 16th, 2020. I’m Steve Mirsky. At this place in the ongoing COVID-19 predicament, most of us have been requested to exercise social distancing. That is, remain the hell away from each and every […]