Tag: education

Study suggests genes behind higher education linked to lower risk of Alzheimer’s

From the Karolinska Institutet press release: Using genetic information, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden provide new evidence that higher educational attainment is strongly associated with a lower risk of… Read more »

Study looks at why students don’t always use learning strategies they know about

From the Frontiers press release: Many university students don’t use common learning strategies, despite knowing that they exist, finds a study in open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology. Specific training on how… Read more »

Positive engagement in preschool key to developmental gains

From the Society for Research in Child Development press release: Many interventions and programs designed to improve low-income children’s lives focus on providing high-quality early-childhood education. Preschool classrooms that are emotionally… Read more »

Social emotional learning interventions show promise, warrant further study

From the Oregon State University press release: Developing a child’s social and emotional learning skills in early childhood is seen as a key to the child’s success in school, but researchers… Read more »

Reading to therapy dogs improves literacy attitudes in second-grade students

From the Tufts University press release: Second-grade students who read aloud to dogs in an afterschool program demonstrated improved attitudes about reading, according to researchers at Tufts Institute for Human-Animal… Read more »