Children who have a good relationship with their teacher may be protected from expressing aggression and being the target of aggression at school. That's the key finding in a new study of Canadian first graders that appears ...
Social Sciences
Oct 26, 2011
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Preschool children with relatively poor language skills improve more if they are placed in classrooms with high-achieving students, a new study found.
Social Sciences
Oct 26, 2011
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Stress in the lives of poor children is one cause of the early achievement gap in which children from low-income homes start school behind their more advantaged classmates.
Social Sciences
Oct 26, 2011
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Self-directed learning has long been heralded as the key to successful education. Yet until now, there has been little research into this theory. Educational researchers at the Technical University of Munich have now shown ...
Social Sciences
Aug 8, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Preschool upper middle class children tend to ask for help and argue their points effectively -- sometimes to the detriment of their classmates from working class families.
Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2011
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A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider its decision ordering two former Harvard classmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to accept a multimillion dollar settlement over the company.
Business
May 16, 2011
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A new study looks in depth at the social relationships between male and female teenagers, relational violence, and psycho-social adjustment factors such as loneliness, self-esteem and satisfaction with life. The results show ...
Social Sciences
Dec 22, 2009
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Whether or not twins are separated at school, a subject of debate that is often a dilemma for parents, has no affect on their grades, according to a Dutch study published Tuesday.
Social Sciences
Dec 14, 2009
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Being seen as either well behaved or naughty at school is never entirely in the hands of the individual child, this study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council shows.
Social Sciences
Sep 20, 2009
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(AP) -- I like to get advice from friends on all sorts of things, and love to give it even more. In the past few years, instant messaging, e-mail and Twitter have sped up the process, but there's still room for improvement.
Internet
Jul 8, 2009
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