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News/Research Articles on Learning and Learning Disabilities
News and research related to learning improvement, motivation and learning disabilities including ADHD & dyslexia.
- School Burnout Among Adolescents Shows Correlation With Parental Work Burnout
Recent research indicates that school burnout among adolescents is shared with parental work burnout. Children of parents suffering from burnout are more likely than others to experience school burnout. Funding from the Academy of Finland has supported the first ever scientific study into the associations between adolescents' and parents' burnout.
- Reasons Explored for Making Child Repeat First Grade
Reasons for requiring a child to repeat the first grade may go far beyond the basic "three R's," reveals a study by two Texas A&M University education psychologists. They say parents must often shoulder at least part of the blame or credit.
- Relationships Improve Student Success
When students are underachieving, school policymakers often examine class size, curriculum and funding, but University of Missouri researchers suggest establishing relationships may be a powerful and less expensive way to improve students' success. In a review of the research they show that students with positive attachments to their teachers and schools have higher grades and higher standardized test scores.
- Parenting Children With Disabilities Becomes Less Taxing With Time
Having a child with a disability takes a toll on parents' mental and physical health, yet new research suggests that, over time, parents learn to adapt to the challenges of caring for a disabled child. As these parents age, the study shows, their health more closely mirrors the health of parents with children who don't have disabilities.
- Time Invested In Practicing Pays Off For Young Musicians, Research Shows
A Harvard-based study has found that children who study a musical instrument for at least three years outperform children with no instrumental training-not only in tests of auditory discrimination and finger dexterity (skills honed by the study of a musical instrument), but also on tests measuring verbal ability and visual pattern completion (skills not normally associated with music).
- Music Training Linked To Enhanced Verbal Skills
Music training, with its pervasive effects on the nervous system's ability to process sight and sound, may be more important for enhancing verbal communication skills than learning phonics, according to a new Northwestern University study.
- Small Classes Give Extra Boost To Low-Achieving Students
Small classes in early grades improve test scores in later grades for students of all achievement levels, but low achievers get an extra boost. That's the finding of a study on the long-term effects of class size in the November issue of the American Journal of Education.
- High School Put-Downs Make It Hard For Students To Learn, Study Says
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 can contribute to a climate in which good students have difficulty learning and students who are behind have trouble catching up.
- Sexual Harassment At School -- More Harmful Than Bullying
Schools' current focus on bullying prevention may be masking the serious and underestimated health consequences of sexual harassment, according to James Gruber from the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Susan Fineran from the University of Southern Maine in the US. Their research shows that although less frequent, sexual harassment has a greater negative impact on teenagers' health than the more common form of victimization, bullying.
- Low Grades, Bad Behavior? Siblings May Be To Blame, Study Says
We all know the story of a man named Brady and the group that somehow formed a family. But if the iconic '70s sitcom about a "blended" family reflected reality, the Brady Bunch likely would have been dealing with much more than silly sibling squabbles.
- Good Pre-School And Home-Learning Boosts Academic Development
Attending a high quality pre-school followed by an academically effective primary school gives a significant boost to children's development. These are the findings of a new study which shows that a stimulating early years home-learning environment also provides a sound foundation on which these experiences build.
For analysis of some of these articles by Dr George Tucker along with comments from readers - please go to our Parenting Today Blog.
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