News tagged with kindergarteners
Probing Question: Is homework bad for kids?
Ask an 11-year-old whether homework is a bad thing, and you’ll likely be greeted with vigorous nodding and not a hint of ambiguity, but do grown-up experts agree? As with so many things, the answer is mixed.
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Sep 04, 2009 |
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Research shows a good kindergarten education makes dollars and sense (w/ Video)
There isn't a lot of research that links early childhood test scores to earnings as an adult. But new research reveals a surprising finding: Students who learn more in kindergarten earn more as adults. They are also more ...
Aug 11, 2010 |
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Humans like to work together in solving tasks, chimps don't
Recent studies have shown that chimpanzees possess many of the cognitive prerequisites necessary for humanlike collaboration. Cognitive abilities, however, might not be all that differs between chimpanzees ...
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Switching schools affects student achievement, study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Picture a kindergarten classroom of 20 students. By the time that class finishes fourth grade, only six students—30 percent—will have been continuously enrolled in the same school.
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Jul 06, 2009 |
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How to halt the pre-K to prison trend for African-American youth
April 12, 2010—A disturbing thirty year trend has resulted in a disproportionate number of incarcerated African-American male youths in U.S. prisons. A new study from the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry shows that the co ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 12, 2010 |
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To teach kids math, researcher devises 'brain games'
(Phys.org) -- The world often breaks down into numbers and regular patterns that form predictable cycles. And the sooner children can inherently grasp these patterns, the more confident and comfortable they will be with the ...
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Apr 13, 2012 |
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Self-regulation game predicts kindergarten achievement
Early childhood development researchers have discovered that a simple, five-minute self-regulation game not only can predict end-of-year achievement in math, literacy and vocabulary, but also was associated with the equivalent ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Childhood hunger policies should target neighborhoods, not families
Policies addressing childhood hunger should target neighborhoods, not individual families, according to new research from Rice University.
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Mar 22, 2012 |
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Disadvantaged neighborhoods set children's reading skills on negative course
A landmark study from the University of British Columbia finds that the neighbourhoods in which children reside at kindergarten predict their reading comprehension skills seven years later.
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Jan 14, 2010 |
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