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Rice's OpenStax awarded $90M to lead first-of-its-kind NSF research hub for transformational learning and education research

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Mittwoch, April 24, 2024
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HOUSTON, April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenStax at Rice University was awarded $90 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation to build and lead SafeInsights, a groundbreaking research and development (R&D) hub for inclusive learning and education research to benefit tens of millions of students and their instructors across all educational levels.

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  • SafeInsights will enable extensive, long-term research on the predictors of effective learning while protecting student privacy.
  • This five-year project represents the NSF's largest single investment in R&D infrastructure for education at a national scale.
  • "We are thrilled to announce an investment of $90 million in SafeInsights, marking a significant step forward in our commitment to advancing scientific research in STEM education," NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan said.
  • "There is an urgent need for research-informed strategies capable of transforming educational systems, empowering our nation's workforce and propelling discoveries in the science of learning.

NEW STUDY FINDS PRIVATE SCHOOLS ARE MORE EFFECTIVE AT BOOSTING KEY CIVIC OUTCOMES

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Dienstag, April 16, 2024
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NEW YORK, April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Private schools are linked to more positive civic outcomes for students and parents than public schools, according to a peer-reviewed statistical meta-analysis published today in Educational Psychology Review by authors from the University of Buckingham and University of Arkansas. The research, which combines, audits, and analyzes all available empirical studies of the effects of public and private schools on various civic outcomes, found that private schooling is associated with an advantage of 5.5 percent of a standard deviation, or roughly two percentile points, over public schooling in various measures of civic outcomes.

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  • "Since public schools were often established specifically to prepare children for citizenship, one might assume that they're superior to private schools at that function.
  • The study, titled "The Public Purposes of Private Education: a Civic Outcomes Meta‑Analysis," found that religious private schools had a greater effect than secular private schools relative to public schools, equivalent to 7.6 percent of a standard deviation.
  • "Educational pluralism, advanced by effective school choice policies, seems to be a boon, and not a bane, for civic outcomes."
  • For now, a wealth of evidence indicates that private schools do at least as well, and likely better, at forming democratic citizens.

Effort to repeat key cancer biology experiments reveals challenges and opportunities to improve replicability

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Dienstag, Dezember 7, 2021
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Today, eLife publishes the final outputs of the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology , an 8-year effort to replicate experiments from 53 high-impact papers published between 2010 and 2012.

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  • Today, eLife publishes the final outputs of the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology , an 8-year effort to replicate experiments from 53 high-impact papers published between 2010 and 2012.
  • The team designed replication experiments of key findings from each paper by reviewing the methodology and requesting information about protocols and availability of reagents.
  • The first paper " Challenges for Assessing Replicability in Preclinical Cancer Biology " reports on the challenges confronted when preparing and conducting replications of 193 experiments from 53 papers.
  • The second paper, " Investigating the Replicability of Preclinical Cancer Biology ", reports a meta-analysis of the results of the 50 replication experiments that did get completed.

The Center for Open Science receives the Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research

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Mittwoch, November 24, 2021
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The Einstein Foundation's jury offered its official statement about the institutional award winner: "The Center for Open Science (COS) catalyzes global research culture change via a unique integrated behavior change model.

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  • The Einstein Foundation's jury offered its official statement about the institutional award winner: "The Center for Open Science (COS) catalyzes global research culture change via a unique integrated behavior change model.
  • "We are delighted to award the inaugural Einstein Foundation Award to Paul Ginsparg and the Center for Open Science.
  • "The awardees perfectly embody the objective of the award: to boost confidence in science by effectively promoting systematic research quality."
  • The Einstein Foundation Berlin was named German Research Foundation of the Year 2021 on the basis of its significant contribution to promoting the city as a leading international research hub.

NewAge Publishes Major New Discovery on Blocking Spike Proteins From Binding to Human Cells

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Donnerstag, Oktober 7, 2021
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NewAge has discovered what it believes to be breakthrough science in the pursuit of health and the strengthening of peoples immunity.

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  • NewAge has discovered what it believes to be breakthrough science in the pursuit of health and the strengthening of peoples immunity.
  • The conference hosted experts in medicine and biology and industry to discuss the usage of bioactive compoundsfor immune support and health.
  • We have now been able to measure the ability of NONI and its major phytonutrients to block the binding of the spike proteins to cellular membranes.
  • Using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) to detect the competitive inhibition of spike protein to Angiotensin II Receptors (ACE-2) binding by NONI, NewAge scientists uncovered that NONI inhibited the ability of the spike proteins to bind ACE-2 by approximately 70%.