School based mindfulness training helps kids sleep betterby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 22h
PRINT E-MAIL At-risk children gained more than an hour of sleep per night after participating in a mindfulness curriculum at their elementary schools, a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine found. The research will be published online July 6 in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine . The study is the first to use polysomnography techniques, which measure brain activity, to asses
Autistic children can benefit from attention trainingby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 22h
Research News SHARE PRINT E-MAIL Attention training in young people with autism can lead to significant improvements in academic performance, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK along with institutions in São Paolo, in Brazil, tested a computer programme designed to train basic attention skills among a group of autistic children aged between eight and 1
For many students, double-dose algebra leads to college attainmentby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 23h
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY Research News SHARE PRINT E-MAIL IMAGE: TAKAKO NOMI, PH.D., ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES AT SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY. view more CREDIT: SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY ST. LOUIS -- In the United States, low-income and minority students are completing college at low rates compared to higher-income and majority peers -- a detriment to reducing economic inequality. Double-d
Regular monitoring may be only way to prevent large COVID-19 outbreaks in schoolsby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 23h
A new study examines factors that underlie COVID-19 outbreaks in schools and suggests that large outbreaks can only be prevented with regular monitoring of everyone in the school setting. Paul Tupper and Caroline Colijn of Simon Fraser University, Canada, present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS Computational Biology . Data from around the world show highly varied outcomes for COVID
Measures of Preservice Principal Practice Predict Future Principal Job Performanceby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 4d
Principals are the second-largest school-based contributor to student achievement. Interventions focused early in the “pipeline” for identifying and developing effective principals might be a promising strategy for promoting principal effectiveness, yet no prior research has examined measures of principal performance during preservice preparation. This study analyzes 31 measures of principal prac
