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News For Educators

Young people are too pressured to choose (5/18/2012)

Young people are forced to choose an educational path early in life. International trends in the educational sector have led to reduced opportunities to change direction later on, according to a new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. ...> Full Article


The teacher is central to successful use of computers in schools (5/17/2012)

The teacher is central to successful use of computers in schoolsThe idea of one computer per student is becoming increasingly common in the Swedish school system. The University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is now conducting several studies on the educational consequences of the so-called 1:1 initiative in a group of Swedish municipalities.'The teacher is the key to successful use of computers in the classroom,' says Professor Berner Lindström, scientific director of the studies. ...> Full Article


Real science in virtual school labs (5/16/2012)

Real science in virtual school labsUp-to-date marine data enables students to carry out scientifically valid virtual experiments. The method yields insights on how scientific knowledge is created and developed, according to research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. ...> Full Article


Researcher examines the healthy and unhealthy snack choices of fourth- and fifth-grade students (5/15/2012)

A health nutrition education program to fight childhood obesity in America is a possible outcome of a study by a University of Oklahoma researcher and a colleague. The study looked at factors affecting a child's decision when choosing healthy or unhealthy snacks. ...> Full Article


Are educators showing a 'positive bias' to minority students? (5/7/2012)

Rutgers psychology professor Kent Harber's research indicates that public school teachers under-challenge minority students by providing them more positive feedback than they give to white students, for work of equal merit. The study in the Journal of Educational Psychology involved 113 white middle school and high school teachers in two public school districts in the N.Y./N.J./Conn. tri-state area, one middle class and white, and the other more working class and racially mixed. ...> Full Article


Being left out puts youths with special needs at risk for depression (5/6/2012)

The challenges that come with battling a chronic medical condition or developmental disability are enough to get a young person down. But being left out, ignored or bullied by their peers is the main reason youths with special health care needs report symptoms of anxiety or depression, according to a study to be presented Sunday, April 29, at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Boston. ...> Full Article


Excessive sleepiness may be cause of learning, attention and school problems (5/2/2012)

Children who have learning, attention and behavior problems may be suffering from excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), even though clinical tests show them sleeping long enough at night. Researchers studied 508 children and found that those whose parents reported EDS -- despite little indication of short sleep from clinical measurements -- were more likely to experience learning, attention/hyperactivity and conduct problems than children without EDS. Obesity, symptoms of inattention, depression and anxiety, asthma were among the culprits. ...> Full Article


Switching subject categories could improve test scores (5/1/2012)

Students of all ages could improve their test scores if the category of information changed abruptly midway through the test, according to a new study on memory by researchers from Syracuse University, the University of South Florida and Indiana University. ...> Full Article


School climate can affect overweight children for life (4/27/2012)

Researchers at Oklahoma State University and the University of Arkansas studied 1,139 first-graders in 29 rural schools where obesity risk is especially high. Specifically, they tested their hypothesis that obese and overweight children are more disliked than their classmates. ...> Full Article


Not all today's students are 'tech savvy' (4/26/2012)

A small minority of today's university students don't use e-mail and others are confused by the array of technologies available at universities. Yet many students couldn't bear to be without their mobile phones and find themselves distracted by social networking sites during study. ...> Full Article


Poll shows strong voter support for school nutrition standards (4/23/2012)

Eighty percent of American voters favor national standards that would limit calories, fat, and sodium in snack and ā la carte foods sold in US schools and encourage the consumption of fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy items, according to a new poll commissioned by the Kids' Safe & Healthful Foods Project, a joint project of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. ...> Full Article


Policy language regarding girls education often limiting, not empowering (4/22/2012)

Policy language regarding girls education often limiting, not empoweringEducation for girls in developing countries has received more attention in recent years. A new study found that the policy documents advocating for equal access limit the scope of the initiatives by over-simplifying issues and ignoring the complexity of gender roles and culture. "There is often no explanation as to relationship, cause-effect, rationale or theory of action relating to many of the arguments for educating girls or the relationship of barriers and strategies." ...> Full Article


Countries that best prepare math teachers share similarities (4/21/2012)

Countries that best prepare math teachers share similaritiesCountries that best prepare math teachers meet several key conditions generally lacking in the United States, according to the first international study of what teacher preparation programs are able to accomplish. ...> Full Article


New tool helps teachers use technology more effectively (4/20/2012)

A University of British Columbia researcher has piloted a tool to help elementary and secondary school science teachers get the most out of new classroom technologies. ...> Full Article


Math teachers demonstrate a bias toward white male students (4/19/2012)

While theories about race, gender, and math ability among high school students have long been debated, a recent study found that math teachers are in fact, unjustifiably biased toward their white male students. This study was published in a new article released in the April 2012 issue of Gender & Society (GENDSOC), the official journal of the Sociologists for Women in Society, published by SAGE. ...> Full Article

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Young people are too pressured to choose

The teacher is central to successful use of computers in schoolsThe teacher is central to successful use of computers in schools

Real science in virtual school labsReal science in virtual school labs

Researcher examines the healthy and unhealthy snack choices of fourth- and fifth-grade students

Are educators showing a 'positive bias' to minority students?

Being left out puts youths with special needs at risk for depression

Excessive sleepiness may be cause of learning, attention and school problems

Switching subject categories could improve test scores

School climate can affect overweight children for life

Not all today's students are 'tech savvy'

Poll shows strong voter support for school nutrition standards

Policy language regarding girls education often limiting, not empoweringPolicy language regarding girls education often limiting, not empowering

Countries that best prepare math teachers share similaritiesCountries that best prepare math teachers share similarities

New tool helps teachers use technology more effectively

Math teachers demonstrate a bias toward white male students



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