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 predict ...
Social Sciences
May 9, 2011
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(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.
Social Sciences
Apr 11, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Practice might not always make perfect, but a novel study of Midwestern middle school science students suggests it just might.
Social Sciences
Mar 7, 2011
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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 ...
Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2010
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(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 are significantly ...
Social Sciences
Sep 3, 2010
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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 structure of a key ...
Biochemistry
Jul 29, 2010
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(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 by employing ...
Social Sciences
Jun 15, 2010
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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 ...
Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2009
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Due to the economy, more middle-class families are passing on private schools in favor of the local public school.
Social Sciences
Apr 24, 2009
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