News tagged with elementary grades

Poverty-related stress affects readiness for school

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.

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created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Small classes give extra boost to low-achieving students

Small classes in early grades improve test scores in later grades for students of all achievement levels, but low achievers get an extra boost. That's the finding of a study on the long-term effects of class size in the November ...

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created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Teachers think white females lag behind in math, study finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- High school math teachers tend to rate white female students’ math abilities lower than those of their white male peers, even when their grades and test scores are comparable, according to a University ...

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created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

NASA GRAIL returns first student-selected moon images

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade students from the Emily Dickinson ...

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created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Getting in rhythm helps children grasp fractions, study finds

Tapping out a beat may help children learn difficult fraction concepts, according to new findings due to be published in the journal Educational Studies in Mathematics. An innovative curriculum uses rhythm ...

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created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Middle school boys who are reluctant readers value reading more after using e-readers: study

Middle school boys rated reading more valuable as an activity after two months of using an e-reader, according to a new study.

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created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

High school math teachers may not make the grade when it comes to gender bias

Do some high school teachers think math is harder for girls than boys? The authors of a new study say yes.

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created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Understanding basic concepts in spatial measurement

In a first or second grade classroom, a teacher asks students to take a ruler and measure (in inches) the length of a rectangular block. A student aligns the "0 inch" mark of the ruler with the end of the ...

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

GRAIL returns first video from moon's far side

(PhysOrg.com) -- A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon. MoonKAM, or Moon Knowledge ...

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Good handwriting and good grades: Researcher finds new link

(PhysOrg.com) -- Who cares about handwriting, anyway? It’s the 21st century, after all. We have iPads and iPhones, computers that spell check and fonts that go from French script to Freestyle and back to Times New Roman.

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created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Key to school improvement: Reading, writing, arithmetic ... and character?

A study of 20 elementary schools in Hawaii has found that a focused program to build social, emotional and character skills resulted in significantly improved overall quality of education, as evaluated by teachers, parents ...

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created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Restorative practices found to be effective alternative to zero tolerance in schools

Restorative practices appear to be an effective alternative to exclusionary and punitive zero-tolerance behavior policies mandated in many schools today.

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created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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