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Over the past few years, an alarming rise in couple violence incidence has prompted experts to look for solutions to this serious problem. What is even more concerning is the fact that teen couples have also joined the trend. This means that, later on in life, partners that now abuse or are abused will translate this... |
4 August 2009
15:41 GMT |
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According to the first study ever to assess the behavior of high-quality teachers in American schools, top educators are very likely to leave the institutions that are experiencing an affluence of African American students. In other words, whenever a learning institution – that is supposed to offer equal oppor... |
27 May 2009
21:01 GMT |
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While most people nowadays argue the necessity of integrating “green” devices into modern buildings, a renowned architect supports the necessity of these less-polluting technologies being installed on existing structures as well. University of Oregon Professor of Architecture Ihab M.K. Elzeyadi says that ... |
12 May 2009
05:05 GMT |
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On Monday, researchers in the UK announced the results of their latest study on bullying, and the conclusions are worrying. According to the statistic data, children who have been bullied from a very young age do not get tougher as some twisted parents think, but rather become twice as likely to develop symptoms asso... |
5 May 2009
10:56 GMT |
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While the connection between using social media and having low grades in school or college has not yet been directly made, researchers conducting a new survey on social media could not help but notice that students who spent most spare time on Facebook tended to have the lowest grades of all those who were studied. T... |
14 April 2009
08:47 GMT |
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The way in which a city is built, and its streets regulated, is one of the main factors that determine whether children will use bicycles or walking to get to school, or just stick to the bus. Distance and safety concerns also score high positions on parents' lists, which may not allow their child to use alterna... |
13 April 2009
04:36 GMT |
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New research seems to show that children at school districts where the US “No Child Left Behind” Act has been implemented are very likely to not benefit from the appropriate amount of physical exercise youngsters at their age should. The ancient Latins had a proverb that roughly translates into “Hea... |
1 April 2009
10:34 GMT |
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Following a controversial vote on Thursday, the Texas State Board of Education adopted a new school curriculum that prevented teachers from presenting so-called “weaknesses” of some of the most important scientific theories, especially that of evolution, proposed by Darwin some 150 years ago. Proponents o... |
27 March 2009
05:34 GMT |
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Some entrepreneurs in France have had the idea of starting a website dedicated to solving math problems. It's a place where children from all around the world can post the problems they have been assigned at school, so that older French mathematics students can then solve them and post the solution. Naturally, a... |
4 March 2009
10:50 GMT |
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Since the dawn of civilization, music has been an integrated part of a child's education, as everyone has realized the potential that sounds have in shaping the mind of a young pupil. In most countries in the world today, music lessons are still offered in schools as part of the basic curricula, along with sport... |
11 February 2009
12:01 GMT |
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All around the world, wherever there are minorities, there is the issue of multilingualism. People who immigrate to a certain country wish, after a while, to be able to communicate with authorities in their native tongue, which they say will make it a lot easier for them to follow rules and get along with their neigh... |
10 February 2009
10:25 GMT |
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It's no secret to anyone that most people in Texas are very religious, and that they adopt a very strict code when it comes to their beliefs. However, at times, their zeal can be overwhelming, and thus they have ended up in a situation where the fundamental truths of the evolution theory have been contradicted b... |
27 January 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Bullying has a tremendous impact on the lives of children in schools throughout the world, and can lead to mental disabilities when the kid subjected to it grows old. It can also make children have very little self esteem, and bow their heads down when in public, just because a stronger student tells them so and thre... |
26 January 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York report in a new study that American children who do not benefit from a small recess between classes are far more likely to become unruly in classrooms and to lack developed social skills, as compared with their peers. The research has been conducted on... |
26 January 2009
04:26 GMT |
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The United Kingdom announced plans to close and merge 13 primary schools and 12 nurseries in the city of Glasgow, due to precarious conditions and the unfit state of some of the buildings. The officials who made the announcement also said that, at the moment, building new school structures had been ruled out of the q... |
20 January 2009
08:40 GMT |
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Although researches done over the years have found no correlation between fast food restaurants near schools and the number of overweight or obese children, a new study, conducted by Christopher Carpenter, at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) and Dr Brennan Davis, at the Azusa Pacific University (APU) in C... |
5 January 2009
08:46 GMT |
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An increasing number of scientists argue that the poor academic performances the US youth has been registering over the past few years, which prompted the creation of the No Child Left Behind Act, are also tightly linked to the abnormally high levels of obesity among children aged 6 to 11. Scientists believe that fit... |
30 December 2008
03:31 GMT |
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Instead of banning cell phones and punishing those who choose to disregard the warning signs, the management of a British school decided to start and fund a nine-month long program in which the cell phones were used to further the educational process. Taking advantage of the large array of accessories that modern pho... |
24 December 2008
07:01 GMT |
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The devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck China on May 12 reportedly killed more than 19,000 children and professors, in poorly-built schools across the Sichuan and Gansu provinces. Previous reports by the government attempted to hide the fact that most schools that collapsed had very weak structures, by f... |
21 November 2008
04:30 GMT |
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Recent statistics show that the number of plagiarism cases in American schools has been constantly increasing over the past few years, especially since access to the Internet became readily available for everyone. Students admit in various studies that they used the copy/paste method of cheating on their papers at le... |
18 November 2008
04:03 GMT |
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If moving to Dundee, Scotland, was not on your priority list, things could change starting now. If you are a gamer, that is. And still in school. Because a really interesting project started by Learning and Teaching Scotland took place for 10 weeks and proved that video games are far from being a mindless waste of ti... |
14 March 2008
04:59 GMT |
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Five British schools in Worcestershire have trialled some so-called "active" Wii video games to augment traditional Physical Education lessons with their final goal being the reduction of obesity of the population and encourage students to take and enjoy more exercise, everything in a fun way. Strange, because I alwa... |
31 January 2008
04:40 GMT |
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I understand that security is a very important thing, especially nowadays, otherwise I wouldn't be writing about this. It's just that some measures are way too drastic, in my opinion. The United Kingdom has made the news lately, for their security measures and the next one is about a case going on in a Brit... |
4 October 2007
10:11 GMT |
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We're advancing more and more and new technologies pop up everyday. You can never know what scientists will think of next - a few years ago, I carried a phone the size of a brick and now - iPhones have appeared, small and with tones of features. Who would have thought? And of course, as the world advances, bulli... |
21 September 2007
03:37 GMT |
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