News tagged with middle school
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
Mar 23, 2012 |
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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
Mar 22, 2012 |
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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
Feb 13, 2012 |
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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
Jan 18, 2012 |
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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
Oct 12, 2011 |
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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
May 25, 2011 |
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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
May 09, 2011 |
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People like us: why some middle class families opt for the local comp
(PhysOrg.com) -- A book co-authored by a UWE academic delves into the assumptions and motivations of liberal parents in making decisions about secondary schools.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 11, 2011 |
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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
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Middle school is when the right friends may matter most
As adolescents move from elementary school into their middle or junior-high years, changes in friendships may signal potential academic success or troubles down the road, say University of Oregon researchers.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 12, 2011 |
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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
Sep 15, 2010 |
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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
Sep 03, 2010 |
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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 ...
Jul 29, 2010 |
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Intervention lowered obesity rate in youth at high diabetes risk, HEALTHY study finds
An intervention in middle schools lowered the obesity rate in students at highest risk for type 2 diabetes, those who started out overweight or obese in sixth grade, an NIH-funded study has found. However, schools that implemented ...
Jun 27, 2010 |
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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 ...
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Jun 15, 2010 |
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