STEM education, emphasizing innovation and practical skills, is a global priority. However, integrating it systematically into core national curricula remains a challenge. A new study reveals that a school in Shanghai has developed a replicable “Chinese-Style STEM” model. This Deep Integration Teaching approach successfully achieves deep subject integration, thematic learning, and competency development without increasing instructional hours or student workload.

A groundbreaking international intervention co- led by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) and the KU Leuven Institute of Healthcare Policy in Belgium shows that redesigning hospital work environments with the Magnet Model® measurably improves nurse and physician wellbeing and strengthens patient safety.

Money talks, and new research from Northwestern University suggests it often speaks louder than an American voter’s commitment to democratic norms. The new study from the Center for Communication & Public Policy examined how U.S. residents conceptualize democracy and whether their support for democratic principles remains consistent when financial issues and other trade-offs are considered. Researchers found that support for democratic principles is far more conditional than traditional surveys suggest and declines substantially when economic hardship is taken into account. 

A new bibliometric study published in ECNU Review of Education offers a comprehensive overview of digital education research from 2018 to 2023. Analyzing 2,767 international peer-reviewed articles from the Scopus database, the study reveals significant global growth in the field and underscores the Chinese mainland’s rising academic influence.