As school districts continue searching for ways to recruit and retain teachers, new research from UNC-Chapel Hill suggests one promising pipeline may already be in classrooms: teaching assistants. 

Ocean University of China (Qingdao, China) announced that a research team led by Professor Guoqiang Li and Dr. Xiao Han of the Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, has discovered fourteen previously unknown diterpenoid derivatives — named clavukellines A–N — from the soft coral *Clavularia koellikeri* collected from the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea. Preliminary pharmacological evaluation revealed that all fourteen compounds exhibit antithrombotic activity, and two additionally show anti-inflammatory effects, opening a promising new avenue for marine-derived drug development.

Childhood epilepsy is linked to significantly poorer exam grades and long term educational attainment, with the lowest levels of academic prowess among those whose neurological disorder started when they were very young, finds a large, long term Danish study, published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.

Competency-based education white paper shares University of Phoenix lessons on designing and scaling flexible CBE programs for working adult learners.

School-based mental health programs face a persistent problem: the students who need help most often benefit least. A new UCLA study found the reverse. Among teenage girls in a program combining structured breathing techniques with social-emotional learning, those who had experienced the highest levels of childhood trauma showed the largest gains in social connectedness, according to findings published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence.

ITHACA, N.Y. - Many New York City eighth-graders – particularly those from underserved communities – aren’t applying to academically competitive high schools where they could succeed, according to new Cornell University research.

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) today kicked off the American Innovation Campaign with the announcement of three new prestigious awards that recognize excellence in innovation philanthropy, mentorship and innovation leadership, and intellectual property and innovation education.