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Contracts in the classroom

While contracts are an indispensable tool in the modern workplace, a new study has found that they may also be very effective in contemporary classrooms. According to a new article published in SAGE Open, courses in which ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Football team success throws fall grades of non-athletic college males for a loss

(PhysOrg.com) -- College football bowl season is in prime time, and a new report card is in: Male grades drop relative to female grades when their college football team performs well during the regular season.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study uncovers clues to young children's aggressive behavior

Children who are persistently aggressive, defiant, and explosive by the time they're in kindergarten very often have tumultuous relationships with their parents from early on. A new longitudinal study suggests that a cycle ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Poverty-related stress affects readiness for school

Stress in the lives of poor children is one cause of the early achievement gap in which children from low-income homes start school behind their more advantaged classmates.

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created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bullying victims often suffer academically, particularly high achieving blacks and Latinos

Victims of bullying often suffer academically, and this is particularly true for high achieving black and Latino students, according to new research to be presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological ...

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created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Teacher influence persists in early grades

Having consistently good teachers in elementary school appears to be as important for student achievement as small class sizes, according to new research by a Michigan State University education scholar.

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created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Smoking may increase risk of prostate cancer recurrence, death

A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and University of California, San Francisco, researchers suggests that men with prostate cancer who smoke increase their risk of prostate cancer recurrence and of dying ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gender stereotypes about math develop as early as second grade

Children express the stereotype that mathematics is for boys, not for girls, as early as second grade, according to a new study by University of Washington researchers. And the children applied the stereotype to themselves: ...

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created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Allergies lower risk of low- and high-grade glioma

The more allergies one has, the lower the risk of developing low- and high-grade glioma, according to data published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Resear ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Gender gap in physics exams reduced by simple writing exercises, study says

Women are underrepresented and on average perform more poorly than men in introductory physics. But a recent study finds that this gap arises predominantly from differential preparation prior to college and ...

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created Nov 25, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

HPV vaccine gives prolonged protection against genital warts and low-grade pre-cancerous growths

Vaccination against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) gives strong and sustained protection against genital warts and pre-cancerous growths of the cervix, according to a new study published in the British Medical ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study links sleep apnea in children and teens to lower academic grades

The average academic grades of children and teens with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea are worse than the grades of students who have no sleep-disordered breathing, according to a research abstract that will be ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Acute toxicity predicts overall survival in high-grade gliomas

Patients with high-grade gliomas who experience acute (early) neurological toxicity during their treatment were more likely to experience chronic (late) neurological toxicity and shortened overall survival, according to researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

All-volunteer US military still offers a pathway for young men

For many Americans coming out of high school, college, military service and the workforce represent the primary avenues of opportunity. With rising costs and stiff academic requirements, college tends to draw students from ...

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created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Blasting children's cancer -- not their ears

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new grading scale for hearing loss developed by a physician at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital could help doctors find the best way to protect the hearing of young patients who need chemotherapy to treat ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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