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Summer Learning Programs Can Benefit Low-Income Students, Study Finds

Sep. 7, 2016 — During long summers, children may forget many of the lessons they learned from the prior school year -- particularly low-income children who may have access to few enrichment activities. But new ... read more

Parents' Math Skills 'Rub Off' on Their Children

Sep. 1, 2016 — Parents who excel at math produce children who excel at math. This is according to a recent study that shows a distinct transfer of math skills from parent to child. The study specifically explored ... read more

Greater Academic Achievement in High School Increases Likelihood of Moving Away

Aug. 22, 2016 — High school students who completed higher levels of math, performed better academically, and had a greater sense of control of their future were more ... read more

Study Suggests Early Learning in Native Language Can Help English Skills

Aug. 17, 2016 — Spanish-speaking preschoolers experience significant improvements in their English skills when they have a good grasp of Spanish letters and numbers, research indicates. In another study, the ... read more

Developmental Differences in Late Preterm Babies May Not Emerge Until After Age Two

July 25, 2016 — Developmental differences in babies born four to six weeks early may not show up until after they turn two, a new study suggests. At age two, late ... read more

Calculus I Factors Women out of STEM Degrees

July 13, 2016 — It's no secret that Calculus I is a major hurdle in the quest for a science degree. But, according to a new paper, the class is far more likely to discourage women than men from continuing on in ... read more

Why Teaching Math Is Child's Play

June 14, 2016 — The natural process of teaching mathematics to one another gives kids the chance to explore and construct a deeper understanding of their social and physical worlds, a new study ... read more

Study Finds Link Between Handedness, Mathematical Skills

May 5, 2016 — The relationship between handedness and mathematical abilities is controversial. Now researchers say that a link between handedness and mathematical skills exists, but is ... read more

Girls More Anxious About Mathematics, STEM Subjects Compared to Boys

Apr. 21, 2016 — Women are underrepresented in some science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects and fields, global studies have shown. Even in countries with higher gender equality, sex ... read more

Preference for Dating Smarter Partners Negatively Affects Women's Attitudes Toward STEM

Apr. 1, 2016 — Women with a preference for more intelligent partners are less likely to show interest in male-dominated fields such as math and science, according ... read more

Mixing Job Training With Academics in Schools

A Robot to Teach Kids Coding

Blame Your GPS For Your Crappy Sense Of Direction

Apparently, Teachers Aren't Sure How To Teach Climate Change

Skills Gap for US Manufacturing Workers Mostly a Myth, Paper Says

Aug. 15, 2016 — Despite the outcry from employers over the dearth of job-ready workers, three-quarters of US manufacturing plants show no sign of hiring difficulties for job vacancies, says new ... read more

Kindergarteners' Mathematics Success Hinges on Preschool Skills

Aug. 4, 2016 — Researchers have discovered that preschoolers who better process words associated with numbers and understand the quantities associated with these words are more likely to have success with math when ... read more

Should First-Year College Students Assessed as Needing Remedial Math Take College-Level Quantitative Courses Instead?

June 24, 2016 — Policies placing first-year college students assessed as needing remedial math directly into college-level quantitative courses, with additional support, can increase student success, according to a ... read more

Simple Numbers Game Seems to Make Kids Better at Math

June 15, 2016 — Although math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, researchers boosted kindergarteners' arithmetic performance simply by exercising their intuitive number sense with a quick ... read more

Improving Math in Sixth Graders

June 14, 2016 — Sixth grade students with lower mathematical ability perform better on complex arithmetic problems if they write down their ... read more

Preschool Academic Skills Improve Only When Instruction Is Good to Excellent

June 7, 2016 — As the overall quality of instruction in preschool classrooms increases, children experience better outcomes across a range of skills, but the needle only moves on language and reading skills when ... read more

Does Learning Improve When Every Student Gets a Laptop?

Apr. 26, 2016 — Schools that provide each student with a laptop computer, as well as the appropriate support for both students and teachers, see significant improvement in academic achievement, a new paper ... read more

Race Biases Teachers' Expectations for Students

Mar. 30, 2016 — When evaluating the same black student, white teachers expect significantly less academic success than black teachers, a new study concludes. This is especially true for black ... read more

New Study Reveals Visual Working Memory May Provide Clues to Autism's Social Struggles

Feb. 10, 2016 — Poor visual working memory can play an important role in the struggles experienced by autistic children, according to a new study. The aim of this study was to compare the working memory profiles of ... read more

Basic Ratio Capacity May Serve as Building Block for Math Knowledge

Jan. 12, 2016 — Understanding fractions is a critical mathematical ability, and yet it's one that continues to confound a lot of people well into adulthood. New research finds evidence for an innate ratio ... read more

Impact of Social-Emotional Learning on Academic Achievement

Nov. 23, 2015 — Teaching social and emotional skills to inner-city students can contribute to their academic achievement, new evidence shows. The project involved all students enrolled in regular or bilingual ... read more

Study Shows Why Four-Year-Olds Don't Thrive in Head Start Classes

Nov. 10, 2015 — Most Head Start classrooms serve children of mixed ages and that hurts the academic growth of older children, a new national study ... read more

Pupils Learn Poorly When Using Most Computer Programs

Oct. 26, 2015 — “Most digital learning tools used in schools are unsatisfactory and only test the knowledge the pupils already have”, says Björn Sjödén, who has reviewed a large number of computer programs ... read more

Math Story Time at Home Bolsters Achievement in School

Oct. 8, 2015 — Use of an iPad app that fosters parent-child interactions around math markedly increases children's math achievement across the school year, especially for children with parents who are ... read more

Frequent School Moves Hurt Low-Income Childrens' Math Scores

Oct. 8, 2015 — Low-income students who change schools frequently are at risk for lower math scores and have a harder time managing their behavior and attention in the classroom than similar students who stay in the ... read more

Math and Me: Children Who Identify With Math Get Higher Scores

Sep. 30, 2015 — How strongly children identify with math (their math 'self-concept') can be used to predict how high they will score on a standardized test of math achievement, according to a new ... read more

Are American Schools Making Inequality Worse?

Sep. 30, 2015 — Schooling plays a surprisingly large role in short-changing the nation's most economically disadvantaged students of critical math skills, according to a a new study. Findings from the study ... read more

Tutoring Relieves Math Anxiety, Changes Fear Circuits in Children

Sep. 8, 2015 — Anxiety about doing math problems can be relieved with a one-on-one math tutoring program, according to a new study. The study showed that tutoring fixed abnormal responses in the brain's fear ... read more

Cardiorespiratory Fitness Linked to Thinner Gray Matter and Better Math Skills in Kids

Aug. 12, 2015 — A new study reveals that 9- and 10-year-old children who are aerobically fit tend to have significantly thinner gray matter and do better on math tests than their 'lower-fit' ... read more

Parents' Math Anxiety Can Undermine Children's Math Achievement

Aug. 10, 2015 — Children of math-anxious parents learned less math over the school year and were more likely to be math-anxious themselves—but only when these parents provided frequent help on the child’s math ... read more

Monday, August 15, 2016

Skills gap for US manufacturing workers mostly a myth, paper says

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Kindergarteners' mathematics success hinges on preschool skills

Friday, June 24, 2016

Should first-year college students assessed as needing remedial math take college-level quantitative courses instead?

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Simple numbers game seems to make kids better at math

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Improving math in sixth graders

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Preschool academic skills improve only when instruction is good to excellent

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Does learning improve when every student gets a laptop?

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Race biases teachers' expectations for students

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

New study reveals visual working memory may provide clues to autism's social struggles

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Basic ratio capacity may serve as building block for math knowledge

Monday, November 23, 2015

Impact of social-emotional learning on academic achievement

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Study shows why four-year-olds don't thrive in head start classes

Monday, October 26, 2015

Pupils learn poorly when using most computer programs

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Tutoring relieves math anxiety, changes fear circuits in children

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Cardiorespiratory fitness linked to thinner gray matter and better math skills in kids

Monday, August 10, 2015

Parents' math anxiety can undermine children's math achievement

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Stressing about your math test? Your problem-solving abilities might suffer

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Men think they are maths experts, therefore they are

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Misperception discourages girls from studying some STEM fields

Thursday, June 4, 2015

New study calls for radical shake-up of the Early Years curriculum to help boost achievements of summer born children

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Thursday, April 16, 2015

New genomics tool could help predict tumor aggressiveness, treatment outcomes

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Pre-K children outpace normal expectations through kindergarten

Monday, March 23, 2015

How much math, science homework is too much?

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Better breakfast, better grades

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Little evidence that executive function interventions boost student achievement

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Teacher prejudices put girls off math, science, study suggests

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Elementary teachers' depression symptoms related to students' learning

Monday, February 2, 2015

Findings reinforce use of targeted tutoring to benefit disadvantaged CPS students

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Playing with puzzles, blocks may build children's spatial skills

Monday, January 26, 2015

Friday, January 23, 2015

Parents' belief that a child will attend college plays big role in early academic success

Thursday, January 8, 2015

All in a good night's sleep: How quality of sleep impacts academic performance in children

Monday, December 22, 2014

Fast-food consumption linked to lower test score gains in 8th graders

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Students attending summer learning programs returned to school in the fall with an advantage in math

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

It doesn’t add up: People who say they are good at math, but aren't

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Full-day preschool linked with increased school readiness compared with part-day

Friday, November 21, 2014

Self-regulation intervention boosts school readiness of at-risk children, study shows

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Cookie Monster teaches self-control

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Focusing on executive functions in kindergarten leads to lasting academic improvements

Monday, November 10, 2014

Mothers' education significant to children's academic success

Monday, November 3, 2014

Gender fairness prevails in most fields of academic science

Thursday, October 9, 2014

GPA, GRE inadequate for evaluating non-traditional students for graduate school admissions

Monday, October 6, 2014

Are leaders born or made? New study shows how leadership develops

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Doing math with your body

Monday, September 22, 2014

Classroom intervention helps shy kids learn

Thursday, September 11, 2014

High levels of physical activity linked to better academic performance in boys

Monday, August 25, 2014

Sunday, August 17, 2014

How children's brains memorize math facts

Monday, August 4, 2014

'I can't figure out how to do this!': Active-learning techniques effective for large scale classes?

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Numerical learning disability: Dyscalculia linked to difficulties in reading and spelling

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Unintended consequences of raising state math, science graduation requirements

Monday, July 7, 2014

Smart and socially adept increases labor market value

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Just 25 minutes of mindfulness meditation alleviates stress, study shows

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Teachers more likely to use ineffective instruction when teaching students with mathematics difficulties

Monday, June 23, 2014

New research proves gender bias extraordinarily prevalent in science, technology, engineering and math fields

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Girls' social connections affect math learning

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Program to reduce behavior problems boosts math, reading among low-income kindergartners, first graders

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Girls make higher grades than boys in all school subjects, analysis finds

Monday, April 14, 2014

High marks to a state pre-kindergarten program

Friday, March 21, 2014

Preterm children at increased risk of having math problems

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Monday, March 17, 2014

Who’s afraid of math? Study finds some genetic factors

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Gesturing with hands a powerful tool for children's math learning

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Math anxiety factors into understanding genetically modified food messages

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Mutant-Allele Tumor Heterogeneity (MATH) in head, neck squamous cell carcinoma patients is effective marker, along with HPV status, of improved patient outcome

Thursday, February 13, 2014

High school students who experience 'job-shadow' opportunities in STEM environments more likely to consider a STEM career path

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

New kinds of maths skills needed in the future – and new educational practices

Monday, February 3, 2014

Single-sex education unlikely to offer advantage over coed schools, research finds

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Targeted tutoring can reduce 'achievement gap' for disadvantaged students

Monday, January 27, 2014

Quality of white matter in the brain is crucial for adding and multiplying (but not subracting and dividing)

Monday, December 23, 2013

Getting excited helps with performance anxiety more than trying to calm down, study finds

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Role of literacy skills in adolescents' mathematics word problem performance

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Kids grasp large numbers remarkably young

Monday, December 16, 2013

No math gene: Learning mathematics takes practice

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Sudden interest in math -- how teachers can motivate pupils

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

High quality preschool narrows gap between high-risk kids, higher achievers, study finds

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Art could help create a better 'STEM' student

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Differences in brains of children with nonverbal learning disability

Monday, November 18, 2013

With board games, it's how children count that counts

Friday, November 15, 2013

How teens choose their friends

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Educational video games can boost motivation to learn

Thursday, October 31, 2013

U.S. study gives Catholic schools poor marks

Monday, October 28, 2013

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Baby's innate number sense predicts future math skill