Redshirting doesn’t help kids
Delay Kindergarten at Your Child’s Peril, warn neuroscientists Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt, authors of Welcome to Your Child’s Brain: How the Mind Grows From Conception to College, in the New York...
View ArticlePraise is out
Schools are rejecting self-esteem boosting, reports the Washington Post. It turns out that pumping up students’ self-esteem through easy, unearned praise doesn’t improve their achievement. As schools...
View ArticleTV linked to flabby brains
They don’t call it the boob tube for nothing: TV viewing time is correlated with changes in the brain, according to a Japanese study of children between the ages of five and 18. The more kids watch,...
View ArticleJust say ‘not yet’ on marijuana
Persuading teens to say no to marijuana is harder these days, now that it’s legal for adults in Colorado and Washington, reports Tara Parker-Pope in the New York Times. Forty-four percent of teens...
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