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A team of researchers from the UK and Finland has discovered why people who stay in education longer have a lower risk of developing dementia – a question that has puzzled scientists for the past decade. Examining the brains of 872 people who had been part of three large ageing studies, and who before their deaths had completed questionnaires about their education, the researchers found that more education makes people better able to cope with changes in the brain associated with dementia. Over the past decade, studies on dementia have consistently showed that the more time you spend in education, the lower your risk of dementia...
The K-12 academic standards in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics produced last month by the Common Core State Standards Initiative are clearer and more rigorous than those currently in use in three-quarters of the states, reports the Thomas B. Fordham Institute on the basis of a comparison released Tuesday. Specifically, the Common Core standards are stronger than today’s ELA standards in 37 states and today’s math standards in 39 states. In 33 of those states, the Common Core bests both ELA and math standards...
The University System of Georgia has released a study finding that students who study abroad have improved academic performance upon returning to the home campus and higher graduation rates. The GLOSSARI project – Georgia Learning Outcomes of Students Studying Abroad Research Initiative – also found that studying abroad helps, rather than hinders, academic performance of at risk students. “The conventional wisdom is that students who are at risk should be discouraged from studying abroad altogether,” according to Don Rubin...
School-based efforts at better nutrition, more exercise and improved education about healthy living can help kids who are most at risk for obesity keep the weight off, compared to children in schools without such programs, a new study suggests. But the program failed to reduce the overall numbers of overweight and obese schoolchildren – those numbers fell by 4 percent over three years whether the 42 middle schools in the study had such initiatives or not, the researchers report...
Children who spend many hours a day glued to the TV or playing computer video games may be harming their ability to concentrate and focus on tasks in school, according to a new study released in the current issue of Pediatrics – The Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The study worked with a sample of 1,323 middle childhood participants who were assessed during a 13-month period by parent- and child-reported television and video game exposure as well as teacher-reported attention problems...
The U.S. Census Bureau has released a report comparing per-pupil spending by states and local school districts. The report – which uses a different methodology than the annual tally compiled by the National Education Association – found that New York put more funding into education on a per-pupil basis than any other state ($17,173), while Utah spent the least ($5,765). The national average, according to the Census Bureau, was $10,259 – higher than 34 states...
According to a new report titled “Race to the Bottom? California’s Support for Schools Lags the Nation”, released by the California Budget Project on Wednesday, state government support for education is anemic. “By almost any measure California ranks near or at the bottom with respect to funding for public schools relative to other states. Although such comparisons do not take into account how much it actually costs to provide a quality education to California’s students, they do provide one measure of whether California spends an appropriate amount on public schools...
Whether rich or poor, residents of the United States or China, illiterate or college graduates, parents who have books in the home increase the level of education their children will attain, according to a 20-year study lead by Mariah Evans, University of Nevada, Reno associate professor of sociology and resource economics. For years, educators have thought the strongest predictor of attaining high levels of education was having parents who were highly educated. But, strikingly, this massive study showed that the difference between being raised in a bookless home...
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