5 WAYS TO GET KIDS TO DO THEIR HOMEWORK
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College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read
“There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing.” By Frank Landymore for Futurism Here’s the latest harrowing dispatch from the frontlines of education, as yet another higher education instructor laments that his pupils literally can’t read. In a new essay for The Chronicle Higher Education, university-level literature and writing instructor Tyler Jagt recalls how not a single one…
‘I make casts of their feet!’ Rachel Whiteread, Michael Armitage and more on how they get their kids into art
By Chloë Ashby for The Guardian You could let them make a mess in your kitchen, take them to the safari park to draw animals – and if all else fails there’s always bribes! We speak to leading artists about making childcare creative Who better to have the final word on introducing young children to art than artist parents? Gone…
Study: Toddlers Are Happier Giving to Others Than to Themselves
By Enda Tan, Julia Van de Vondervoort, Jeneesha Dhaliwal, Lara B. Aknin, Jane Kiley Hamlin ABSTRACTHumans routinely share valuable resources, even at significant personal cost (e.g., organ donation). What motivates such generosity? This study examined the emotional benefits of sharing in toddlers with the largest and youngest sample to date (N = 134; Mage = 20.50 months, range = 16.57–23.77…
Reading enhances social skills
Some people view books as a way to escape the real world and the people in it, but research has shown that when it comes to social skills, reading may have its uses. A 2013 study published in the journal Science for example, found that individuals who read fiction may have better “theory of mind” – that is, the ability to understand…
Why teaching grammar helps kids learn to read (studies)
A national study of more than 6,000 students found that understanding how sentences are structured predicted reading achievement even after researchers controlled for family income, homework habits, and writing ability. Even after they accounted for everything else, sentence-level understanding still mattered. For reading. “A lot of research into the relationship between explicit grammatical understanding and literacy development in L1 contexts has…
