Understanding the biological basis of consciousness or subjective experience is one of the most exciting and challenging projects of this century. For many reasons, an evolutionary approach to this ...

Bonjour! Ni hao! Merhaba! If you move to a new country as an adult, you have to work much harder to get past that initial “hello” in the local language than if you’d moved as a child. Why does it take ...

On a global scale, education and learning have historically been markers of status, wealth, and privilege. The revolutionaries of the past have pushed these boundaries to challenge the status quo and, ...

This study investigates the transformative impact of generative AI (GenAI), particularly ChatGPT, on higher education through a mixed-methods approach combining survey analysis and scenario ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

Students acquiring the English language are one of the fastest growing populations of K-12 public school students in the country. Legally, districts are required to provide them with adequate ...

Close your eyes for a moment and think back to your school days. Picture the classroom — the wooden desks, the smell of chalk dust in the air, and the teacher at the front of the room, writing ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Cristina Robinson, Vanderbilt University; Kate Snyder, Vanderbilt University, and ...