Study demonstrates efficacy of MIT-led Brave Behind Bars program

Programming course for incarcerated people boosts digital literacy and self-efficacy, highlighting potential for reduced recidivism.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
today ~8 min

Is it the school, or the students?

Study shows perceptions of “good” schools are heavily dependent on the preparation of the students entering them.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News • mit
March 28, 2024 ~7 min


Understanding how the brain works can transform how school students learn maths

Principles from cognitive science can help help in the design of more effective teaching materials for maths.

Colin Foster, Reader in Mathematics Education, Loughborough University • conversation
Feb. 28, 2024 ~7 min

New Cambridge-developed resources help students learn how maths can help tackle infectious diseases

Cambridge mathematicians have developed a set of resources for students and teachers that will help them understand how maths can help tackle infectious

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 19, 2024 ~5 min

New Cambridge-developed resources bring infectious diseases into the maths classroom

Cambridge mathematicians have developed a set of resources for students and teachers that will help them understand how maths can help tackle infectious

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 19, 2024 ~5 min

Blueprint Labs launches a charter school research collaborative

Collaborative brings together charter school policy, practice, and research communities to help make research on charters more actionable, rigorous, and policy-relevant.

Talia Gerstle | Amanda Schmidt | Blueprint Labs • mit
Jan. 19, 2024 ~6 min

Bridging the gap between preschool policy, practice, and research

At the MIT Blueprint Labs Preschool Research Convening, practitioners present studies on early childhood education and discuss future directions.

Talia Gerstle | Amanda Schmidt | Blueprint Labs • mit
Jan. 10, 2024 ~7 min

MIT in the media: 2023 in review

MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges.

MIT News • mit
Dec. 21, 2023 ~18 min


New study shows how universities are critical to emerging fusion industry

Fusion’s success as a renewable energy depends on the creation of an industry to support it, and academia is vital to that industry’s development.

Peter Reuell | Julianna Mullen | Plasma Science and Fusion Center • mit
Nov. 30, 2023 ~8 min

Merging science and systems thinking to make materials more sustainable

Passionate about materials science “from the atom to the system,” Elsa Olivetti brings a holistic approach to sustainability to her teaching, research, and coalition-building.

Zach Winn | MIT News • mit
Nov. 21, 2023 ~8 min

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