July 2, 2024
by Patricia Tomasi
A new study published in Child Development looked at how children and adolescents rectify unequal allocations of leadership duties in the classroom. “This study is about whether children and adolescents recognize when biases occur in the classroom and what they think about it,” study author Melanie Killen told us. “One context where this happens is when teachers assign students to take on highly valued leadership duties (e.g., assigning only boys to become crossing guards)."
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May 30, 2023
by Elizabeth Pratt
The decision making capability of college students has likely been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Researchers from Ohio State University found that students had less consistent decision making in the fall semester of 2020 compared with students who had previously participated in the study in previous years.
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August 20, 2021
by Tina Arnoldi
Smartphones are a must-have for today's generation of young people. The desire to stay connected with friends and loved ones is understandable, but the obsession with constantly checking one's phone diminishes a student's attention span.
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October 14, 2018
by Dr. Kevin Fleming
Advice on how to treat children under the age of 13 for concussion has changed in recent years. According to a comprehensive new research review, parents need to be made aware of the latest advice to prevent severe complications that can arise from a second blow before the first one has properly healed.
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September 2, 2018
by Arthur Hunter
Universities champion diversity and inclusion, but when it comes to accessibility for students in wheelchairs, failures and obstacles are widespread. Harvard and UW are investigated for wheelchair friendliness.
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July 3, 2018
by Elizabeth Pratt
Researchers have found students with autism spectrum disorder benefit from teachers who have received specialised autism training. Students in classes with teachers who received such training interacted more with their teachers and peers, participated more frequently in class activities and had a higher frequency of two-way conversations.
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In 1938 Abel Meerpol, who was white and Jewish, wrote a poem entitled “Strange Fruit”. He added music in 1939. When Billie Holiday sang it at Cafe Society in Greenwich Village, which was the first integrated club in New York, it became a passionate and disturbing anthem for the Civil Rights movement.
The “Strange Fruit” referred to the lynchings of black men in the South.
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“Age ain’t nothing more than a number,” is a quote that has been used for years. There have been songs written about two people who love each other and who are at different stages in their life, yet they love each other.
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Being a parent encounters great responsibility. The responsibility is not only great because you are caring for an infant or child that cannot tend to itself or protect itself. Responsibility is so great because the parent is responsible for the total development of the child. In order to be able to give a child the best they can have to develop into a responsible psychology healthy well-being, the parent has to be responsible for themselves as well. When parenting
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Our society tends to believe that if one works hard enough, they will do well. However, according to the recent census, two-thirds of people living in poverty are working 1.7 jobs. Many people work hard and are still not making it, not even for basic needs.
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