by Sarah Green | Jun 30, 2015 | News
Non-profit GlassLab has been working with PopCap Games and researchers at Florida State University to help develop a more educational version of Plants Vs. Zombies 2 (PvZ2), one of PopCap’s many successful titles. Called Use Your Brainz, the new title doesn’t make any...
by Sarah Green | Jun 25, 2015 | News, Student Issues
A recent study from Université de Luxembourg in Switzerland reinforces the concern that boys are falling behind in school, but it also helps to explain some of the reasoning. For some time now, boys in the 13-15 year range have been outperformed by their female peers,...
by Sarah Green | Jun 24, 2015 | News
The University of Virginia (UVA) is known for providing a very strong undergraduate education, especially in the areas of business, foreign languages, and health sciences. With prominent alumni that includes Forbes’ Midas List member Anton Levy, former U.S. president...
by Sarah Green | Jun 23, 2015 | News, Student Issues
Looking for educational apps for your kids? A new study by the Association for Psychological Science can help. Since the iPad came out only five years ago, more than 80,000 “educational” apps have been developed, but they aren’t all created equally. Many aren’t even...
by Sarah Green | Jun 23, 2015 | News
This spring, an investigation by an online news source found that, in less than three years, Texas judges sent more than a thousand teenagers to jail – actual adult jail, not juvie – over charges stemming from classroom truancy. Most students were locked up because...
