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How socioeconomic status shapes developing brains

The relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and brain anatomy is mostly stable from childhood to early adulthood, according to a longitudinal neuroimaging study of more than 600 healthy young people. This finding suggests interventions designed to mitigate the influence of low SES on brain and mental health may be most beneficial for children younger than

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Better security achieved with randomly generating biological encryption keys

Data breaches, hacked systems and hostage malware are frequently topics of evening news casts — including stories of department store, hospital, government and bank data leaking into unsavory hands — but now a team of engineers has an encryption key approach that is unclonable and not reverse-engineerable, protecting information even as computers become faster and

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International Conference on Approaches to Scaling-up Professional Development in Maths and Science Education

Date: 7 to 8 October 2019 Venue: University of Education Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. After the successful first two conferences in 2014 in Essen, Germany and 2016 in Freiburg, Germany, the third conference will continue to offer participants from all over the world a platform to explore, discuss and exchange approaches to scaling up professional development

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Small class size has at best a small effect on academic achievement

Reducing class size is seen as a way of improving student performance. But larger class sizes help control education budgets. The evidence suggests at best a small effect on reading achievement. There is a negative, but statistically insignificant, effect on mathematics, so it cannot be ruled out that some children may be adversely affected. Läs

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