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Most Elementary Schools In California Will Fail To Meet Proficiency Requirements By 2014, Study Shows
A new study shows that
nearly all elementary
schools in California will
fail to meet the Adequate
Yearly Progress (AYP)
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Learning From Mistakes Only Works After Age 12, Study Suggests
Eight-year-old children have
a radically different
learning strategy from
twelve-year-olds.
Eight-year-olds learn
primarily from positive
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Dogs And Cats Can Live In Perfect Harmony In The Home, If Introduced The Right Way
Thinking about adopting a
perky little puppy as a
friend for your fluffy cat,
but worried that they'll
fight -- well, like cats and
... > full story
Playing, And Even Watching, Sports Improves Brain Function
Being an athlete or merely a
fan improves language skills
when it comes to discussing
their sport because parts of
the brain usually involve ... > full story
- Most Elementary Schools In California Will Fail To Meet Proficiency Requirements By 2014, Study Shows
- Learning From Mistakes Only Works After Age 12, Study Suggests
- Dogs And Cats Can Live In Perfect Harmony In The Home, If Introduced The Right Way
- Playing, And Even Watching, Sports Improves Brain Function
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Babies And Beethoven: Infants Can Tell Happy Songs From Sad
October 10, 2008 — A new study shows that 5-month-old babies can distinguish an upbeat tune, such as "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, from a lineup of gloomier compositions. By age 9 months, babies can do ... > full story -
Gene Hunt In Dyslexia
October 10, 2008 — Letters are warped, syllables left out. Scientists seek to spot responsible genes and try to develop a genetic screening test to support affected children at an earlier ... > full story -
Virtual Reality Breathes Second Life Into Language Teaching
October 9, 2008 — An international team has developed a wireless virtual reality environment that can help promote language learning and let students practice. The researchers have demonstrated their Collaborative ... > full story -
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Girls Have Harder Time Than Boys Adjusting In Language-learning Environment, Study Finds
October 7, 2008 — Girls who don’t share a common language may have more difficulty adjusting socially than boys, according to surprising new research looking at language acquisition among young ... > full story -
Sound Is An Integral Part Of Products, Industrial Designer Says
October 6, 2008 — Does coffee taste better when your coffee machine produces a particular sound? According to one industrial designer, the sound a product makes is an integral part of that ... > full story -
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See What I See – Machines With Mental Muscle
October 3, 2008 — The way we use and interact with machines is undergoing a profound change as computers are programmed to learn from experience and see more how we see. European research into machine learning is ... > full story -
Eureka! How Distractions Facilitate Creative Problem-solving
October 2, 2008 — According to psychologists, distractions may be helpful in coming up with creative solutions to a certain problem, but must be followed by a period of conscious thought to ensure that we are aware of ... > full story -
New Tool To Assess Speech Development In Infants, Toddlers With Hearing Impairments
September 29, 2008 — The number of hearing impaired infants and toddlers who are successfully aided by technological devices, such as hearing aids and cochlear implants, continues to grow, but there are still unknowns ... > full story -
Un-total Recall: Amnesics Remember Grammar, But Not Meaning Of New Sentences
September 24, 2008 — Scientists examined which type of memory function contributes to syntactic persistence by comparing amnesics with a group of control volunteers. The amnesics in this study experience anterograde ... > full story -
Revealing The Regulating Mechanism Behind Signal Transduction In The Brain
September 22, 2008 — Our brain consists of billions of cells that continually transmit signals to each other. This dynamic process works only when the brain cells make contact correctly, or, in other words, when there is ... > full story
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