The phrase "educational merits" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the benefits or advantages of something in terms of education or learning. Example: "The new curriculum was designed to have a strong focus on critical thinking and problem-solving skills, which greatly enhances its educational merits."
Toys like this can help you persuade your spouse of the educational merits of that new big-screen TV.
MONDAY'S federal appeals court ruling striking down Cleveland's school voucher program had nothing to do with its educational merits.
But educational merits aside, anyone who can tap into the insecurities of parents will surely succeed in opening a fresh gusher in the for-profit education market.
Dr. Flowers said that he believed that the educational merits of participating in First and in BattleBots IQ could "be quite equivalent" but that he worried about the safety issues raised by BattleBots.
I'm not sure what it says about me, but it wasn't the social or educational merits of the trip that calmed my racing mind, but thoughts of the strange, intense and wonderful food I remembered from two years in the Peace Corps.
Despite its scientific and educational merits, citizen science faces a number of challenges.
On one hand, there is educational merit, though that education is debatable as to the actual extent of its effectiveness.
Obama wants to put more computers in classrooms, an old idea with dubious educational merit.
This, then, is Club Penguin's true claim to educational merit: it will teach your child all the varieties of social snobbery.
Researchers working with the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania decided not to leave it at that, and developed a methodology to assess the educational merit of children's shows.
If researchers who have "developed a methodology to assess the educational merit of children's shows" think that "if the main character is caught in a lie and solves his problems through magic, that's not very useful" ["Sit Still Now, Class: It's Time to Get Serious," Feb. 27], I wonder how they feel about Grimm's fairy tales.
