Education News
Skills learning program in middle schools dramatically reduces fighting
Published Date:May 6, 2013
Middle school children who completed a social-emotional skills learning program at school were 42 percent less likely to engage in physical fighting a year later, according to a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
The study, which is ongoing, involves more than 3,600 children at 36 middle schools across Illinois and Kansas, the largest sample to date used to investigate the impact of a social-emotional skills learning program on the behavior of middle school students.
Published Date: May 6, 2013
Bullying more violent in school with gangs nearby, study finds
Published Date:April 18, 2013
The presence of gangs in the vicinity of schools creates a pervasive climate of fear and victimization among students, teachers and administrators that escalates the level of aggression in bullying incidents and paralyzes prevention efforts, suggests a new study in the journal Psychology of Violence.
Published Date: April 18, 2013
'Social capital' key to workers' success on the job, study says
Published Date:April 9, 2013
The quality of the social relationships that newly hired people develop with other employees in their work groups is critical to newcomers job satisfaction, learning their responsibilities and their ability to fit in to the workplace culture, a new study suggests.
Published Date: April 9, 2013
Cultural issues in education, society focus of conference
Published Date:March 25, 2013
The role of culture in educational and social interventions will be the focus of a conference in Chicago to be hosted by the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Published Date: March 25, 2013
School policies, biased teachers hamper immigrant children's learning
Published Date:March 7, 2013
U.S. high school sink or swim placement policies that propel immigrant students into courses that theyre linguistically and academically unprepared for or conversely, that funnel all newcomers into remedial courses or service-oriented vocational programs may undermine these students academic success and their motivation to learn, new research suggests.
Published Date: March 7, 2013
