Don't schedule too many activities for your children. Although your intentions might be to provide your children with a wonderful childhood, you may be harming them in the process. So says a professor at Wartburg College in Waverly, IA.
In a study of in-home day care settings, Purdue University researchers measured the level of attachment security between caregivers and very young children. Several factors, including the age at which a child entered day care and the quality of the day care setting, predicted how well the caregivers and children would bond.
The culture of a school -- a web of values, traditions and symbols -- can be toxin or tonic for education reform. Ignoring this powerful variable, however, can be a fatal mistake in reform attempts, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
Vanderbilt University's award-winning Little Planet Literacy Series combines CD-ROM technology with old-fashioned storytelling to help at-risk children learn to read.
Reporters who broke stories of reckless business practices and corruption in politics, health care and the judicial system are among the 13 winners of the 1998 George Polk Awards for excellence in journalism, Long Island University announced today.
Spring break is a time when thousands of students flock to the beaches. The volatile mix of alcohol, anonymity, sex and partying often results in someone getting hurt. A Vanderbilt University expert offers tips for a healthy spring break.
With Oscar nominations for the film "Shakespeare in Love" and upcoming remakes of other Shakespearean works - "Hamlet," "Love's Labours Lost" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream," to name a few - William Shakespeare seems to be more popular than ever. Why?
The plains Indians fought army outposts and infectious disease. But it was mis-use of the land that finally pulled in the reins on the Great Plains horse culture, asserts a University of Arkansas historian in his award-winning new book.
Forty-five years before he ever set foot on a college campus, Tadeusz Debski discovered his thirst for knowledge in the worst of environments, the Flossenburg concentration camp in Germany between 1941 and 1945.
If it's true that the devil's in the details, then there's plenty of Beelzebub in a new book about the destructive forces permeating U.S. academia.
The time is ripe to amend the New Deal law that prohibits farm workers from bargaining collectively with their employers, two University of Illinois experts write in the coming issue of the Emory Law Journal.
College students from around the country will be crossing their eyes and dotting their tees at the 11th annual national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on April 10. The event honors the late cartoonist Rube Goldberg. The task for 1999 is to tee up a golf ball.
A new study finds that financial circumstances don't explain why many high-achieving, low-income students never go to college. The real culprit: inadequate advice from counselors, teachers and other adults.
High school students find learning biology almost as much fun as a video game with a new interactive computer program called BioScope. Purdue University researchers are developing the educational tool that has one-of-a-kind Internet safeguards and is constantly changing.
While most college students head for the surf and sand this spring break, more than 300 Vanderbilt students will spend their week in volunteering at sites around the country and in Peru, Mexico and Canada through a program called alternative spring break.
In a pleasant, bright conference room on the University of Illinois campus, four professors and 13 students come together once a week to participate in a new interdisciplinary graduate seminar on terrorism.
Educators at the University of Illinois and in three Illinois counties are finding that a rare form of university-schools collaboration -- which pools expertise, resources and the novice teachers themselves -- can be a key to getting first-year teachers some of the support they need.
Nearly a decade after the dismantling of apartheid, one group of South Africans is still struggling for recognition. That group, according to a University of Illinois theater professor, is black South African women.
Making friends is a natural thing for many kids. For others, it's not. And for a small but significant minority, the way they handle even minor conflicts within a friendship is a strong predictor that their friendships will be few, say two University of Illinois researchers.
The March 3, 1999 U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring public schools to pay for one-to-one nursing care to some disabled students will benefit the disabled nationwide, says a University of Iowa law professor and leading American with Disabilities Act expert.
Nationwide, millions of students and parents planning college-campus tours this spring may do well to heed a few key pointers, compiled by top University of Delaware officials.
The district attorney in Philadelphia, Mississippi is trying to reopen the Ku Klux Klan killings of the three civil rights workers that took place nearly 35 years ago. Charles Sallis of Millsaps College is an expert on this topic and the attempts to reopen the case.
The Cornell Early Childhood Music Project at the childcare center at Cornell uses chants, musical playground, instruments from around the world and other unique approaches to focus on music for enhancing brain development.
Of the 3,000 student athletes who have attended Dr. Tom Jackson's violence prevention workshops, not one has since been charged with assault. The key to preventing violence among athletes is to distinguish between appropriate on-field and off-field behaviors.
Many people simply need something to worry about, and the synergy between the millenium and the Y2K bug gives them a convenient excuse to panic, according to an expert on religion, culture, and apocalyptic literature at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta.
New research by a University of Georgia sociologist focuses on the problem of out-of-field teaching -- teachers assigned to teach subjects for which they have little education or training. He found that the most common assumptions about the causes of the problem are largely untrue and that proposed solutions may, in fact, cause more harm than good.
Recruiting underrepresented minorities to science and engineering graduate schools and ensuring they complete advanced degree work is a critical issue facing U.S. educators today, say scholars who will focus on the isssue at a conference at Rice University March 11-12.
The Monadnock Institute at Franklin Pierce College surveyed New Hampshire residents and among the survey's findings from 243 respondents: women reported a much higher level of attachment to (and satisfaction with) their place compared to men; income levels and home ownership seem to be strong predictors of place connection; and respondents who acknowledge watching four or more hours of TV per day expressed a significant disconnection from their place/community.
Gender is clearly no longer a liability for women considering a run for Congress, according to a Vanderbilt doctoral student who is researching the competitiveness of women candidates in the House of Representatives.
District of Columbia teachers now have a unique opportunity for professional development and graduate credit through Western Illinois University's College of Education and Human Services.
Instead of the traditional sojourn south for spring break, a group of students at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, will head north, to the Chic Choc Mountains of eastern Quebec for deep-snow backcountry skiing.
The 8th Annual Wheaton Theology Conference at Wheaton College (IL) looks at why religion makes good health sense. "Healing, Health and Spirituality: Evangelical Theology Engages Scientific Research" will bring international scholars to the campus April 8-10.
Isaac Newton's mathematical method shaped the course of modern science, but his works are rarely read today--except by all students at St. John's College, where a conference devoted to his thought is scheduled for March 19-21.
A United Nations statute to establish the first permanent International Criminal Court received overwhelmingly enthusiastic support from U.N. diplomats. A symposium examining how the new court will work will be held at the Cornell Law School Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6.
Former President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter have been chosen as the recipients of the inaugural Delta Prize for Global Understanding. The Delta Prize was created to recognize groups or individuals for "globally significant efforts that provide opportunities for greater understanding among nations and cultures."
The Tibetan Buddhist perspective on issues of health and healing will be explored in an arts festival at St. Lawrence University March 23 through April 16.
Hendrix College will receive a $2.8 million gift from Acxiom Corporation and its company leader to help build the Charles D. Morgan Center for Physical Sciences for the departments of chemistry, mathematics and computer science, and physics.
A mother's employment outside of the home has no significant negative effect on her children, according to new research reported in the March issue of Developmental Psychology.
A University of Delaware English professor's 1983 book on the career of director Elia Kazan remains the first and only comprehensive look at the enormously successful professional life of this alienated film-maker who will be honored March 21 with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
A professor of psychology at Cornell University and author of "Power Sleep: The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance" (Villard, 1998), will answer questions about sleep problems when he participates in a toll-free "Sleep Hotline" on March 24, 1999.
Middle school students maintain a significantly better seated posture at adjustable computer workstations than at desktop workstations. Yet, the students were still seated in potentially at risk positions for musculoskeletal problems.
Most colleges and universities eliminated their honor codes during the 1960s. Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi is going against that trend. It adopted an honor code at the request of its student body in 1994.
Students at some liberal colleges must pass a comprehensive examination in their major field of study before receiving their degree. Other liberal arts colleges are testing their graduates for technological proficiency
Economic clout in the hands of a powerful few, technology advances, and concern over America's role in a changing world order was the zeitgeist as Americans faced the new century 100 years ago, says a Swarthmore College historian.
Adolescent girls are more helpful and affectionate toward their parents than adolescent boys, new research at Ohio State suggests. In addition, mothers receive more help and affection from their children than do fathers.
"Spirituality, Healing, and Health: A Transformative Vision" is an international conference April 11-13 at the Holiday Inn City Center in downtown Tucson sponsored by The University of Arizona that will focus on healing as a transformative experience of one's interior life that leads to a state of spiritual well being and health.
The obvious decline of the traditional family, a trend marked by increasing rates of divorce and cohabitation, illustrates the paradoxical nature of Americans' hot and cold attitude toward marriage and family, says a University at Buffalo sociologist.
Seven Muhlenberg College students with completely different backgrounds and virtually nothing in common have formed a tight-knit improvisational comedy troupe and taken the College and several other campuses by storm.
The Federal Aviation Administration is uniting with Purdue and a dozen other universities to head off a looming shortage of air traffic controllers. Anticipating the necessity of training thousdands of recruits within a short time, the FAA turned to universities to determine which had programs already in place that meet the government agency's pretraining requirements.
The Y2K issue and heart defibrillators on airplanes will be some of the topics discussed at this year's annual SMU Air Law Symposium sponsored by the Journal of Air Law and Commerce at Southern Methodist University.
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