Phone tutoring boosts math scores when schools are forced to close
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This episode discusses how telephone tutoring can enhance education during school closures and highlights recent research on optical clocks and greenhouse gas sources.
In this episode: 00:46 How telephone teaching could boost education during school shutdowns Nature: Pick up the phone! Phone calls with tutors keep kids learning when schools shut down 11:42 Research Highlights Nature: Super-precise optical clocks in four nations tick in harmony Nature: These greenhouse-gas sources have trotters and snouts 14:15 Why atlases might need an update Nature: Hello Equal Earth: what the UN’s new world map will change Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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