News tagged with educational attainment


Temper, temper: Lifetime of aggressiveness leads to negative outcomes

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

People who were aggressive as children and young adults are likely to continue that behavior later in adult life and wind up with marital problems, traffic violations and even arrests, a new study shows.


'Happiness gap' in the US narrows

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Happiness inequality in the U.S. has decreased since the 1970s, according to research published this month in the Journal of Legal Studies.





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In Taiwan, bird catchers turn bird watchers

Biology / Ecology

created 19 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When Yeh You-chin was a boy half a century ago, he ate migratory birds with relish, but now he is at the forefront of efforts to preserve the feathered visitors to his south Taiwan home.


NASA Challenges 350 Rocketeers Nationwide to Aim a Mile High

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 22 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has invited more than 350 student rocketeers from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities -- 37 teams nationwide -- to take part in the 2009-2010 NASA Student Launch Projects.


Study reveals the paths of Ontario secondary students to their post-secondary destinations

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study by researchers at Queen's University looking at the transitions young people make from secondary school to university, college, apprenticeship and the workplace found that over 60 percent of first-year college ...


Google, other Silicon Valley firms nurture app developers

Technology / Internet

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

They crowd the lobby of Google's Building 43 one evening a month, waiting to climb the wide stairway under a mock-up of the world's first private spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, prepared to delve deep into the Internet giant's ...


Research Suggests New Approach to Using Assessment Results to Improve Classroom Instruction

Research Suggests New Approach to Using Assessment Results to Improve Classroom Instruction

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Education researchers at the University of Arkansas have taken an important first step toward better understanding both formative assessment and how to get the information teachers need to ...


MU researchers develop digital solutions to support divorced families

MU researchers develop digital solutions to support divorced families

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Conflict between parents, before and after divorce, is associated with feelings of anger, helplessness, loneliness and guilt in children. Now, an online program created by University of Missouri researchers ...


Grant to help zoo visitors learn more about science with their cell phones

Technology / Other

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Zoo visitors may soon use their cell phones to "Call the Wild" as part of a project led by University of Florida researchers to help the public learn more about the nature of science.


Educational home visits can improve asthma in children, study suggests

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A few home visits by a health care specialist to educate children with asthma about basic strategies for earlier symptom recognition and improving medication use can lead to fewer flare-ups and less frequent trips to the ...


Tech and teens

Tech and teens

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Digital media use is transforming the way young people learn, UCI researcher Mizuko "Mimi" Ito has found, and schools should take note.


Research highlights need for national HIV strategy

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that well over one million people in the United States are infected with HIV/AIDS. New research from North Carolina State University shows that many of those infected ...



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