News articles tagged with 'school'
Young adults with chronic illnesses have poorer educational, vocational and financial outcomes
— 8 Mar 2011 13:17 | HealthMost young adults who grow up with chronic illness graduate high school and have employment, but those with cancer, diabetes, or epilepsy are significantly less likely than their healthy…
Language patterns are roller-coaster ride during childhood development
— 24 Feb 2011 20:17 | HealthWhy, and when, do we learn to speak the way that we do? Research from North Carolina State University on African-American children presents an unexpected finding: language use can go…
Study shows tobacco retail proximity to schools
— 22 Feb 2011 23:40 | HealthFor years the tobacco industry has argued that efforts to ban tobacco advertising near schools would constitute a total ban on tobacco advertising in urban areas…
Popular kids more likely to bully peers
— 8 Feb 2011 17:48 | HealthWhile experts often view aggressive behaviour as a maladjusted reaction typical of social outcasts, a new University of California, Davis, study finds that it's actually popular adolescents…
Working more than 20 hours a week in high school found harmful
— 4 Feb 2011 16:07 | HealthMany teens work part-time during the school year, and in the current economic climate, more youths may take jobs to help out with family finances. But caution is advised: Among high…
School-based child-parent centre yields high economic benefits
— 4 Feb 2011 16:04 | HealthThe Child-Parent Centre (CPC) early education program is a large-scale, federally funded intervention providing services for disadvantaged 3- to 9-year-olds in Chicago. A new cost-benefit…
Social and emotional learning programs found to boost students' skills
— 4 Feb 2011 16:01 | HealthBeing successful in school requires a combination of social, emotional, and academic competencies. A new analysis of more than 200 school-based social and emotional learning programs…
Children's genes influence how well they take advantage of education
— 3 Feb 2011 18:06 | HealthNew research from the Twins Early Development Study at King's College London Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), published in PLoS ONE on February 2nd, shows that measures used to judge…
Widespread school closures needed to stop strain on hospitals during epidemics
— 3 Feb 2011 17:45 | HealthSelective schools closures has been considered as a means of reducing transmission between children and hence reducing the number of cases at the peak of an epidemic but new research…
High school biology teachers reluctant to endorse evolution in class
— 28 Jan 2011 17:18 | BiologyThe majority of public high school biology teachers are not strong classroom advocates of evolutionary biology, despite 40 years of court cases that have ruled teaching creationism…