News tagged with middle school students

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 ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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

Middle school teachers, students stay after school to work on science, engineering projects

The School of Education at Virginia Tech and the College of Education at University of Kentucky were awarded $1.3 million from the National Science Foundation to implement and evaluate an inquiry-based after-school ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Program led to lower crime, fewer violent incidents among kids

A program built around the concept that kids can and want to reduce violence and improve their neighborhoods led to lower crime rates, better upkeep on homes and more students who said they learned to resolve conflicts without ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Education research shows LGBTQ-identified students at higher risk than straight-identified students

New research findings reported in the October 2011 issue of Educational Researcher highlight differences between LGBTQ- and straight-identified youth in health outcomes and educational equity. The peer-reviewed scholarly ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study links job stress in teachers to student achievement

After 17 years of researching traumatic stress with war-afflicted populations (veterans and civilians) and job stress in the medical profession, Teresa McIntyre, a research professor in the department of psychology ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dinner with the in-laws: Why does knowing how long a bad experience will last make it worse?

Knowing how long a good experience will last makes it better, but being aware of the duration of an unpleasant event makes it worse, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. But people usually predic ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Quizzes key to learning for middle school students

(PhysOrg.com) -- Practice might not always make perfect, but a novel study of Midwestern middle school science students suggests it just might.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Big racial gap in suspensions of middle school students, study shows

A new study by education researchers Daniel J. Losen (Civil Rights Project at UCLA) and Russell Skiba (Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University) says Middle schools across the country are suspending ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study finds students in standalone middle schools lag behind K-8 peers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study that analyzes a decade of achievement data from New York City public schools reveals that the trajectories of math and English performance among students at standalone middle schools ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Middle school students co-author research on enzyme for activating promising disease-fighters

Grown-ups aren't the only ones making exciting scientific discoveries these days. Two middle school students from Wisconsin joined a team of scientists who are reporting the first glimpse of the innermost ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA Receives Science Results from Orchard Middle School Students

(PhysOrg.com) -- Motivating students to learn science is a problem for many teachers. A problem Ron Hamby, an eighth grade teacher from Orchard Middle School, San Jose, Calif., may have solved for his classroom ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Teacher support is key to self-esteem for Chinese and US youth

As children go back to school this fall, a new cross-cultural study finds that for both Chinese and American middle schoolers, students who feel supported by their teachers tend to have higher self-esteem, and those who don't ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Tying education to future goals may boost grades more than helping with homework

Helping middle school students with their homework may not be the best way to get them on the honor roll. But telling them how important academic performance is to their future job prospects and providing specific strategies ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NYC officials: Latest swine flu cases mostly mild

(AP) -- A day after a swine flu outbreak shut down three public schools in New York City, officials said Friday the virus is spreading faster than seasonal flu does, but the symptoms have generally been mild.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0