Autistic kids are increasingly being placed in general education classes. What do parents need to know about school programs?
Autistic kids are increasingly being placed in general education classes. What do parents need to know about school programs?
On location at the Canadian Psychological Association’s 2009 conference. Doctors Brian & Giuseppe discuss inquiry-based learning (helping kids to develop essential learning skills) and family conflict.
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Dr. Leonard Sax, a medical doctor and research psychologist and author of the recent book “Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men,” believes that the education system fails to account for the differences between boys and girls. Way back in the June 2001 issue of Psychology [...]
Parents of 200,000 home-schooled children in California are reeling from the possibility that they may have to send their children back to school. On Feb. 28, Judge H. Walter Croskey of the Second District Court of Appeals in Los Angeles ruled that children ages six to 18 may be taught only by credentialed teachers in public or private schools [...]
The March 2008 issue of School Psychology Quarterly includes data from a 20-year study of kids growing up in high-poverty Chicago neighbourhoods. They looked at a number of factors from birth to adolescence in an effort to predict whether students would graduate from high school and years of completed education.
The two biggest predictors of educational [...]
Researchers at Northwestern University found that American boys scored higher than girls on a standardized math tests, but scores were equal between the sexes in countries with the most gender equality.
Girls scored higher than boys in reading in all of the 40 countries surveyed.
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This probably belongs in the “Well, duh” file.
A study published in the Journal of Human Resources indicates that parent involvement with schoolwork has a dramatic impact on performance – schools would have to spend $1000 per student to achieve equivalent effects. Parents were more interested in their daughters’ work than their sons’, possibly because it’s [...]
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