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11 May 09
» 10% Students may have working memory problems: Why does it matter? « Brain Fitness Revolution at SharpBrains
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teachers typically judged the students to be highly inattentive, and have short poor attention spans and high levels of distractibility.
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The final key finding is that students with working memory difficulties take a much longer time to process information. They are unable to cope with timed activities and fast presentation of information. As a result, they often end up abandoning the activities all together out of frustration. One way to overcome this difficulty is to provide them with a shorter activity and to allow for more time during tests.
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19 Mar 09
The Value of a Higher Education Is Intangible : NPR
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As a college president and parent of four daughters who are in or have recently graduated from college, the relative costs and benefits of higher education are meaningful issues in both my professional and personal lives.
07 Jan 09
12.02.2008 - EEGs show brain differences between poor and rich kids
In a study recently accepted for publication by the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, scientists at UC Berkeley's Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the School of Public Health report that normal 9- and 10-year-olds differing only in socioeconomic status have detectable differences in the response of their prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that is critical for problem solving and creativity.
The Trouble with Black Boys - - by Pedro A. Noguera / Education Rights / In Motion Magazine
The Trouble with Black Boys - - by Pedro A. Noguera / Education Rights / In Motion Magazine
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The effects of growing up in poverty, particularly for children raised in socially isolated, economically depressed urban areas, warrants greater concern, especially given that one out of every three Black children is raised in a poor household.(20) Here the evidence is clear that the risks faced by children, particularly African American males, in terms of health, welfare, and education, are substantially greater.(21) A recent longitudinal study on the development of children whose mothers used drugs (particularly crack cocaine) during pregnancy found that when compared to children residing in similar neighborhoods from similar socio-economic backgrounds, the children in the sample showed no greater evidence of long term negative effects. This is not because the incidence of physical and cognitive problems among the sample was not high, but because it was equally high for the control group. The stunned researchers, who fully expected to observe noticeable differences between the two groups, were compelled to conclude that the harmful effects of living within an impoverished inner-city environment outweighed the damage inflicted by early exposure to drugs.(22)
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Given the importance of individual "choice" to this particular behavior, any effort to reduce teen pregnancy that does n
29 Jun 08
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