A new study provides evidence of the explosive growth of private club and travel teams in youth sports over the past 60 years. Researchers found that kids who were born in the 1990s were about three times as likely to participate in private club and travel sports as those who were born in the 1950s. Findings were based on adults’ retrospective reports of their experiences while growing up.

Only 1 in 3 pupils meet the in-school activity target but this varies greatly across schools.

Elizabeth Roberto, a sociologist at Rice University, has received a $500,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to study how physical infrastructure—such as dead-end streets, highways, and railroad tracks—contributes to racial and economic inequality in U.S. cities. Inspired by patterns she first noticed while living in New Haven, Connecticut, Roberto is using satellite imagery, historical archives, and AI to map how built environments can reinforce segregation and limit access to opportunity. The project will span 50 cities and culminate in an interactive web platform to inform research, education, and community understanding.

Researchers at the Institute of Education and the Faculty of Economic Sciences at HSE University have studied what factors determine the success of student group projects when they are completed with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). Their findings suggest that, in addition to the knowledge level of the team members, the size of the group also plays a significant role—the larger it is, the more efficient the process becomes. The study was published in Innovations in Education and Teaching International.