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Ultra-processed foods make up over half of Americans’ calories, CDC says Roughly 55 percent of the average daily caloric intake comes from ultra-processed foods, which HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to crack down on.

Ultra-processed foods account for roughly 55 percent of the calories Americans consume daily, according to new federal data.

On the relationship between word reading ability and spelling ability - Reading and Writing The goal of the present study was to test theories about the extent to which individual differences in word reading align with those in spelling and the extent to which other cognitive and linguistic ...

"Our results suggest that word reading and spelling are one and the same, almost, but that spoken vocabulary knowledge is more closely related to reading than to spelling." Open article from the great Rebecca Treiman and colleagues. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Introducing 'Instructional Illusions' with @paulkirschner.bsky.social and Jim Heal carlhendrick.substack.com/p/introducin...

Sign up here, to join our (Clare Wright, Leeds and I) talk for the ELINET Online Network seminar series on May 8th (14:00 BST) about international students' experiences of study abroad: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

International students weigh new risks of pursuing higher education in the US under Trump As colleges and universities respond to Trump administration directives to change how they operate, educators worry that fewer international students will want to study in the U.S..

apnews.com/article/coll... International students weigh new risks of pursuing higher education in the US under Trump

Iconic cartoon with people looking at a long list of public benefits connected with climate action, asking “What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?”

15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis

Chinese students flock to Japanese art colleges for permanent residency Education becomes pathway to long-term settlement

"Chinese students now constitute approximately 70% of all international students at Japanese art schools."

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Columbia Disciplines Students Who Occupied Campus Building Last Year Sanctions for the Hamilton Hall occupation include expulsions and suspensions.

We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government.

This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

Image of the title and abstract of the article

The impact of a global mobility program: the lenses of ‘Future Self ’ & ‘Realised Self’

@lesleyharbon.bsky.social & Chang Liu

🔓→ doi.org/10.1177/1028...

#FutureSelf #RealisedSelf #InternationalExchange #StudyAbroad #PreServiceTeachers #Australia #Indonesia #CulturalAppreciation #StudentMobility

March 9-10 1945 : 41 km2 of Tokyo were destroyed and 100,000 civilians killed and over a million made homeless. Napalm cluster bombs were used on wooden houses, and the guns on the B-29s removed to reduce the weight of the aircraft so they could carry more napalm. Humans did this. To other humans.

No. "...language apps have a role to play, but it's ... a complementary, supplementing role"

Koreans and Taiwanese are at double and triple rates respectively. Do young people really "have less drive to succeed overseas compared with [other] Asian countries?"

How easy is it for your students to cheat with AI? https://buff.ly/4ed7gC6 When children set themselves the specific aim of avoiding detection: 50 per cent of the 12-year-olds bypassed detection. 38 per cent of the 13-year-olds bypassed detection. 100 per cent of the 17-year-olds bypassed detection.

Wow!

4th grade reading

Top 10 percent: Down 1 point

Bottom 10 percent: Down 15 points

8th grade math

Top 10 percent: Down 2 points

Bottom 10 percent: Down 18 points

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Well...the future is here for some parts of language teaching...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmhC...

Does comprehension of L2 television programs improve through regular classroom viewing? #EFL #ELT #English #multimodalinput

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To do list for 2025: More special dinners with family. More lounging with the dachshunds. More thinking and planning. More research and papers. And fill your hand with guitar again sometimes dammit.

It begins

I'm working on student mobility in east Asia (especially to Japan) and would like to be added to your starter pack).

‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports ...

“If anything, the AI cheating crisis has exposed how transactional the process of gaining a degree has become.”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Language learned during study abroad may not be valued after returning home OASIS summary of: Durbridge, L. & Breaden, J. (2024). From global imaginaries to local realities: marginalisation of multilingual identities in post-study abroad contexts. [International Journal of Bi...

✨ New OASIS summary ✨

➡️ Language learned during study abroad may not be valued after returning home

oasis-database.org/concern/summ...

Nice thread

Report: Tokyo University Used "Tiananmen Square" Keyword to Block Chinese Admissions - Unseen Japan The student-led paper for Tokyo University says a graduate program used an HTML trick to prevent mainland Chinese students from applying.

unseen-japan.com/tokyo-univer...

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Try this and scroll down to the bottom- www.cmjpublishers.com/internationa...

So it seems code knowledge is the key- even for older readers…https://www.cmjpublishers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/can-older-pupils-who-do-not-present-as-struggling-readers-improve-their-basic-decoding-skills-through-systematic-phonics-instruction-and-what-effect.pdf

Universities enrolling foreign students with poor English, BBC finds Institutions may be overlooking inadequate language skills to receive high fees from overseas students.

Interesting article about international student enrollment trends and English proficiency in England. Curiously, there's no mention of language tests used to admit students.

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Rows versus Tables. II. The Effects of Two Classroom Seating Arrangements on Classroom Disruption Rate, On‐task Behaviour and Teacher Behaviour in Three Special School Classes Summary Seating arrangements in which children sat in rows and around tables were compared experimentally in three classes in a special school for behaviourally troublesome children with moderate ...

From a discussion going on over at that other site.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Expanding the science of reading: contributions from educational psychology The science of reading consists of a large, evolving, and impressive body of evidence about how humans learn to read and how reading should be taught. This body of evidence has accumulated via dive...

Hot off the press! ‼️ Excited to share this new article in Educational Psychologist on expanding the science of reading. Pani Kendeou and I guest edited a special issue for EP—which will be out soon!
doi.org/10.1080/0046...

Barmin, A., & Velichkovsky, B. B. (2024). Dynamics of second-language learners’ semantic memory networks: Evidence from a snowball sampling paradigm. Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. Advance online publication.

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