Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Forget Teacher Education Level, Pre-K Students Benefit Most When Teachers Are Supportive
States are investing considerable amounts of money in pre-kindergarten programs for 4-year-olds. A new study finds that the quality of interactions between teachers and children plays a key role in accounting for gains in children’s development when compared to typical quality indicators such as teachers’ education, class size, and child-to-teacher ratio.
The study suggests that efforts [...]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Spillover Effects Of Family And School Stress Linger In Adolescents’ Daily Lives
Teenagers today face increasing pressures and demands from school and home. New research has found that stress at home affects adolescents’ school life, and vice versa. What’s more, that stress lasts for two days and affects academic performance across the high school years.
The research, carried out at the University of California, Los Angeles, examined the [...]
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Colorado: Unschooling method grows in popularity
KUSA - In a world that revolves around structure, more parents nationwide are letting their kids learn without structure, and they say it is working.
“We found out that it was more helpful for him to learn if he got to pick and choose what he wanted to learn,” said Kawai Brown.
Brown prefers the term [...]
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
348,000 ‘persistent truant’ risk
Truancy statistics show that more than 348,000 pupils in England are classified as being at risk of becoming "persistent truants".
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7385275.stm
