A new ECNU Review of Education essay by Suhao Peng urges a shift from focusing on differences between Finnish and Chinese teacher education to their underlying similarities and commonalities. This discussion essay highlights similarities and commonalities such as teacher qualification standards, high societal value placed on educators, and shared contemporary challenges. Moving beyond differentialism, the author advocates recognizing these similarities to foster mutual learning and joint solutions to global educational issues.

Despite decades of global commitments to end poverty, a large share of the world’s population continues to live without reliable access to the services and infrastructure that support basic wellbeing. A new IIASA study presents a detailed picture of poverty that goes beyond traditional income-based measures.

Researchers, led by UC San Francisco, tested the effectiveness of a weeklong, web-based wellbeing intervention, known as the Big Joy Project. This consisted of daily micro-acts, which included asking someone to share a fun, inspiring, or proud moment, making a gratitude list, and performing a kind act to brighten someone’s day. Approximately 17,600 people from around the world participated: most were from the United States, Canada and Great Britain (71%), female (84%), white (74%), with at least some college education (94%).

Environmental educators can improve teaching and leadership skills by acquiring knowledge from their students through youth-to-adult intergenerational learning, according to a new study from researchers in the Penn State Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management. 

The American Heart Association and the Houston Texans provided Hands-Only CPR education to youth sports coaches to improve emergency outcomes

About The Study: This cross-sectional study revealed high attrition rates among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) medical students, with the highest observed among LGB Hispanic male and female students. Our findings highlight the importance of intersectionality in understanding attrition from medical school. Although future studies need to examine the cause of these disparities in attrition, LGB students experience discrimination within medical training environments, which may lead to risk of attrition.

About The Study: This study found that parent-reported firearm storage may be a poor estimator of teen perceived firearm access, regardless of teen gender, parental education, and urbanicity. Strictly focusing safety efforts on locked and unloaded firearm storage may not fully negate teen’s perceptions that they can access and load household firearms. Storing additional firearms securely may not prevent teen access if at least 1 household firearm remains unlocked.