You’re baby is through with kindergarten and that means a few things. For example, he’s probably a little more embarrassed about mommy kisses in front of his friends, he actually has an opinion about what he wears, and, it’s graduation time! For most kids, kindergarten is pretty major. After all, …
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CHILDUP BESTOF: Most Math Being Taught in Kindergarten Is Old News to Students
Kindergarten teachers report spending much of their math instructional time teaching students basic counting skills and how to recognize geometric shapes — skills the students have already mastered before ever setting foot in the kindergarten classroom, new research finds. The findings reveal a misalignment between what the students are being …
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Brain Stimulation May Improve your Math Skills
Applying painless but targeted electrical stimulation to parts of the brain that play a role in number manipulation may in future be a way to help people who struggle with math, scientists said on Thursday. Researchers who experimented with a type of brain stimulation called transcranial random noise stimulation (TRNS) …
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Children Who Only Read On-Screen Are Significantly Less Likely to Enjoy Reading and Less Likely to Be Strong Readers
Children who read on iPads or Kindles have weaker literacy skills and are less likely to enjoy it as a pastime, charity warns. – Survey of 35,000 pupils finds majority of youngsters now read on screen – ebooks also reducing the number of children who enjoy reading as a pastime – …
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Could ADHD Drugs Spur Development Changes? Higher Dopamine Receptors Found in Patients
Those with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who also take certain medications may experience periods of development changes in their brains that could ultimately impact their ability to respond to other drugs. The study suggests that adults with ADHD have higher levels of a protein called a dopamine transporter in their …
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Parenting: The Effects of Praise
Parents want their children to flourish, make good grades, get a good job and eventually be self-sufficient. “We need to be real. We’re in the real world,” said parent, Eric Zeno. There’s a variety of methods parents, like Eric Zeno, use, hoping to help their children succeed. His son, Eric …
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Tiger Mom Amy Chua Responds to Tiger Baby
It’s a sign of just how deep tensions are around parenting today that, over two years after Amy Chua’s “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” was published, its combination of shocking revelation, serious reflection and tongue-in-cheek exaggeration still sends T. Rex-scale ripples skittering across the surface of our sociocultural Dixie cups. Two …
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Dual Language in Early Education Best for Youngest ELLs, Report Says
Young English-language learners who are still developing oral and literacy skills in their home languages benefit most in early-childhood programs that regularly expose them to both languages. That’s one of several major takeaways in a new federally funded analysis of the large, and growing, population of dual-language learners, ranging from …
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Reading Wars Pit Literacy Instruction Methods Against Each Other
The most complex war you’ve probably never heard of has been waged in elementary school reading lessons for at least 50 years. The “reading wars” pit what literacy experts call “phonics-based” instruction against “whole language” instruction. Battles over which approach is more effective have raged in academic ivory towers, but …
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Screen Use Is Bad for Brain Development, Scientist Claims
Before my meeting with controversial neuroscientist and renowned social media cynic Susan Greenfield, I do two things – post a Facebook “check-in” from her base at Oxford University (which attracts five “likes” and a direct message), and mention her on Twitter. I have a feeling I am exactly the kind …
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