News tagged with minority children
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Large-scale early education linked to higher living standards and crime prevention 25 years later
High-quality early education has a strong, positive impact well into adulthood, according to research led by Arthur Reynolds, co-director of the Human Capital Research Collaborative and professor of child development, and ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Study: Stark differences in media use between minority and white youth
Minority youth aged 8 to 18 consume an average of 13 hours of media content a day -- about 4-1/2 hours more than their white counterparts, according to a Northwestern University report, the first national study to focus exclusively ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Poor children more vulnerable to effects of poor sleep
Elementary-school-age children from poor families are more vulnerable to the effects of poor sleep than their peers. That's the finding of a new study that assessed the ties between children's sleep and their emotional development.
May 14, 2010 |
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Discrimination is associated with depression among minority children
Minority children often encounter racism in their daily lives, and those who experience discrimination more often have more symptoms of depression, according to a study to be presented Sunday, May 2 at the Pediatric Academic ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 02, 2010 |
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At-risk children who can self-regulate behavior have higher test scores than their peers
A study that will be published in a forthcoming journal adds to the mounting evidence that self-regulation - or children's ability to control their behavior and impulses - is directly related to academic performance.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 27, 2010 |
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Inequities exist in disease burden, health care and access for minority children
Minority children in the U.S. face a pervasive gap in the quality and extent of health care received compared to Caucasians, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics written by a UT Southwestern Medical ...
Mar 29, 2010 |
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How does ethnicity affect asthma prevalence?
A study of UK schoolchildren has revealed that Black Africans, Indians and Bangladeshis have a similar or lower prevalence of asthma than White children, while Black Caribbean and Mixed Black Caribbean/White boys are more ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Childhood obesity prevention should begin early in life, possibly before birth
Efforts to prevent childhood obesity should begin far earlier than currently thought—perhaps even before birth—especially for minority children, according to a new study that tracked 1,826 women from pregnancy through their ...
Mar 01, 2010 |
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Children of undocumented parents may be at higher developmental risk
Undocumented people live in a shadowy world of high fear and stress -- fear of deportation and stress brought on lack of economic, linguistic and educational resources.
Jul 13, 2009 |
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