Parents of GCSE and A-level students taking their exams this month in Britain will know how important encouragement is. But they might be surprised to learn that how we understand the brain can affect academic success.
If one assumes that the Quran is the product of a man’s mind, then one would expect it to reflect some of what was going on in the mind of the man who “composed” it.
Strict parenting can turn children into adept liars as they do not feel safe telling the truth, experts have claimed.
While a higher percentage of black children show the symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than white kids, they are less likely to be diagnosed or treated for the disorder, researchers report.
The human papillomavirus vaccine is the only vaccine invented explicitly for the purpose of preventing cancer. Yet a decade after its approval, the vaccine continues to struggle from a PR problem, as shown in a study that finds just one in five parents would support making the HPV vaccine a requirement for school.
When I was mayor of the city of San Fernando, La Union, from 1998-2007, we welcomed the new millennium by forming a Millennium Choir composed of 50 children and 50 employees of the province of La Union and the city. We also heard that UN Habitat and its member countries committed to eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from 2000-2015.
There are as many motives as there are undergraduates taking introductory science courses, but if you look closely at groups of freshmen science students such as those from underrepresented minority (URM) backgrounds, you can see striking motivational differences across and within these groups.
Since the influence of friend of man is very deep, Islamic teachings have given an important status to the friendship. In Holy Quran it is stated that most of the companions of the Fire will say, in the Hell, that
“Oh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken that one as a friend. He led me away from the remembrance after it had come to me. And ever is Satan, to man, a deserter.1
Large science achievement gaps at the end of eighth grade between white and racial/ethnic minority children and between children from higher and lower-income families are rooted in large yet modifiable general knowledge gaps already present by the time children enter kindergarten, according to new research published in Educational Researcher, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.
It's often described as the best time of one's life, but according to a recent report, for over a quarter of undergraduates the reality could be very different.
It's not unusual for college students who do research over the summer to say it was time well spent, but a new study provides something rarer: Hard data on exactly what components and experiences in a national program oriented toward underrepresented students proved valuable and in what ways.
For many years researchers have been concerned about the relationship between aspirations, expectations, school environment and academic achievement with future educational behavior of school students.
Working class parents who choose to send their children to under-performing schools are depriving them of a good education despite living in the catchment area of outstanding schools, new analysis has suggested.
Kids love the unstructured days of summer, but parents need to be sure children get moving during their summer holidays, a physical education expert said.
Most UK young people do not go to university but have been overlooked and left behind by the current system which leaves too many school leavers to drift into dead-end jobs, a damning report by a House of Lords committee has warned.
Children as young as 9 months-old prefer to play with toys specific to their own gender, according to a new study.
Indeed, the writer should give a general idea about the person whom he writes about before he goes deeper into his writing so the reader does not misunderstand such a person when he reads each chapter of his life.
NEW YORK (Dispatches) A new study shows the significance of learning experiences over the first two to four years of human life.
Educational Goals
According to Beheshti, Faqihi and Abujafari (2001), although Saadi had not explicitly stated the educational goals in his works, the following goals could be deduced from his sayings and poems:
New research into birth order effects has found that the last-born children of non-entrepreneurial parents are more likely to go into business than first-borns.
