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Researchers study how children view and treat their peers with undesirable characteristics
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 30, 2009 |
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A study by Kansas State University researchers is looking at how children perceive and interact with peers who have various undesirable characteristics, such as being overweight or aggressive.
Study: Teachers choose schools according to student race
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 27, 2009 |
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A study forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics suggests that high-quality teachers tend to leave schools that experience inflows of black students. According to the study's author, C. Kirabo Jackson (Cornell Univer ...
Alternative teacher certification programs do not meet expectations
Mar 25, 2009 |
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What began in the 1980s as a possible way to relieve teacher shortages and improve instructional quality in areas such as mathematics and science, alternative teacher certification programs (ATCP) have become a widespread ...
Carnegie Mellon engineers create mobile video service
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Carnegie Mellon University engineering faculty, Priya Narasimhan and Rajeev Gandhi, and their students have created a new, unique large-scale mobile wireless video service designed to enhance sports fans' experience at games. ...
High school put-downs make it hard for students to learn, study says
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 01, 2009 |
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High-school put-downs are such a staple of teen culture that many educators don't take them seriously. However, a University of Illinois study suggests that classroom disruptions and psychologically hostile school environments ...
Controlling our brain's perception of emotional events
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Research performed by Nicole Lauzon and Dr. Steven Laviolette of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario has found key processes in the brain that control the emotional significance ...
Depression saps endurance of the brain's reward circuitry
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 21, 2009 |
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A new study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that depressed patients are unable to sustain activity in brain areas related to positive emotion.
Performance pay is a good lesson for education, expert finds
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced a new education reform, calling for a merit-pay system for teachers in hopes of improving student performance. As the nation's public schools spend $187 billion in salaries, based ...
Cognitive scientists use eye-tracking technology to learn what makes a great geologist
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Cognitive scientists, geologists, and vision scientists are teaming up to learn how expert geologists unconsciously view landscapes for clues that point the way to important discoveries. The National Science Foundation has ...
Sex may be better for mature audiences: study
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New university students might be thinking about exploring another rite of passage when they get to campus: the joy of sex. However, depending on their level of maturity, some students may find less joy than ...
Use of cannabinoids could help post-traumatic stress disorder patients
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Use of cannabinoids (marijuana) could assist in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder patients. This is exposed in a recent study carried out at the Learning and Memory Lab in the University of Haifa's Department ...
High-tech mom helps teach student nurses
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Her name is Noelle and she’s about to give birth, but she isn’t a real mother-to-be. Noelle is a simulated mom who’s helping senior nursing students learn how to take care of mothers and newborns ...
Should teachers be licensed on effectiveness or experience?
Apr 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Michigan education officials are considering new standards for licensing teachers focusing more on effectiveness rather than years of educational and work experience. Are teachers ready?
Fish may actually feel pain and react to it much like humans
Apr 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fish don't make noises or contort their faces to show that it hurts when hooks are pulled from their mouths, but a Purdue University researcher believes they feel that pain all the same.
Researchers show early life nurturing impacts later life relationships
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Aug 31, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have demonstrated that prairie voles may be a useful model in understanding the neurochemistry of social behavior. By influencing early social ...
