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'Segregated' schools hinder reading skills
06-20-2007 · EurekAlert!Children in families with low incomes, who attend schools where the minority population exceeds 75 percent of the student enrollment, under-perform in reading, even after accounting for the quality of the literacy instruction, literary experiences at home, gender, race and other variables, according to a new study.
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- Traditional books provide more positive parent-child interaction
11-08-2006 · EurekAlert!
Parents and pre-school children have a more positive interaction when sharing a reading experience with a traditional book as opposed to an electronic book or e-book, according researchers at Temple University's Infant Laboratory and Erikson Institute in Chicago. This shared positive experience from traditional books characteristically promotes early literacy skills.
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- Early academic skills, not behavior, best predict school success
11-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
An educational study unprecedented in scope finds children who start school with elementary math and reading skills are the most likely to have later academic success -- whether or not they have social or emotional problems. While surprising, the seeming lack of association between social and emotional behaviors and future academic success held as true for boys as for girls and as true for children from affluent as for children from less affluent families.
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- Children's early academic and attention skills best predict later school success
11-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
Children entering kindergarten with elementary math and reading skills are the most likely to do well in school later, even if they have various social and emotional problems, say researchers who examined data from six studies of close to 36,000 preschoolers. Children's attention-related skills also mattered, the researchers found.
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- Music training linked to enhanced verbal skills
09-24-2007 · EurekAlert!
Music training, with its pervasive effects on the nervous system's ability to process sight and sound, may be more important for enhancing verbal communication skills than learning phonics, according to a new Northwestern University study. Musicians use all of their senses to practice and perform a musical piece. As it turns out, the brain's alteration from the multisensory process of music training enhances the same communication skills needed for speaking and reading, the study concludes.
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- RAND study says many Louisiana students displaced by hurricanes may suffer academically
11-29-2006 · EurekAlert!
Many of the approximately 200,000 Louisiana students displaced from their public schools by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita may experience long-term academic problems, according to a RAND Corp. study issued today.The vast majority of the displaced students missed weeks or more of school and did not return to their original schools by the end of the 2005-06 school year, according to the report prepared by RAND Education for the RAND Gulf States Policy Institute.
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- A remedy for what ails medicine
03-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
Today men and women attend medical school in equal numbers. But for most women who go on to academic medicine, that's also where the numbers stop adding up. Just 12 percent of women faculty members are promoted to full professor, compared with one-third of male faculty. Furthermore, in the nation's 125 medical schools, on average there are only 35 women full professors compared with 188 male full professors per school.
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- Diverse Projects from Seven Schools are Top Winners at Brookhaven Lab's 2007 Elementary School Science Fair
05-14-2007 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
Almost 500 science projects from 114 Suffolk County schools were entered in the 2007 Elementary School Science Fair, sponsored by Brookhaven Lab. The Laboratory's Office of Educational Programs coordinated the fair, which was held at the Laboratory on May 5, and Brookhaven scientists and local elementary school teachers judged the projects.
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- Research links childhood social skills and learning abilities
06-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
While federal programs such as No Child Left Behind emphasize the importance of academic skills to school success and achievement, there is growing interest in how social skills develop and how they contribute to learning.Research presented at the 2007 meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development by a team of Michigan State University researchers indicate that a child's social skills at age three could predict future social and academic performance.
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- Conflicting attitudes hinder participation in clinical trials
02-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
Women have conflicting attitudes about participating in clinical trials because of uncertainties about trusting the experimenters, fear of the trial itself and hope that the research will result in medical progress, according to a new study at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
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- Study questions 'one size fits all' approach when measuring income's effect on school readiness
02-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
Findings from an analysis of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study suggest that race and ethnic identity should influence the approach used to measure the socio-emotional and pre-academic skills that contribute to school readiness. The ECLS is a nationally representative sample of over 21,000 Kindergarteners. The research suggests that the "one size fits all approach" used to measure parenting and stressors that relate to poverty and school readiness should be reconsidered.
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