University of Connecticut educational leadership professor has developed guidelines that will change the way teachers are being evaluated in Connecticut and Louisiana. Teachers in both states will be evaluated on improving aspects of teaching that strengthen or enhance students' learning in some way.
1. Some farmers in the midwest are looking at a 200 percent income drop this year. 2. A noted child development specialist counters current claims that parents don'thave much impact on how a child will turn out. 3. A consequence of America's aging population could be a big shortage of elderly-care nurses.
Official poverty rate data to be released on Thursday, September 24 are likely to tell an incomplete story about economic disadvantage in the United States, according to experts associated with theNorthwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
Smith College to launch unprecedented 'universal' internship program, enabling every student to afford at least one significant early career experience.
Many elderly alcoholics may go undiagnosed because the symptoms of alcoholism are problems typically attributed to old age, such as insomnia, poor concentration and depression, says a Purdue University nursing expert.
Thanks to a grant of $1.6 million, Michigan State University undergraduate students will have the opportunity to spend their college careers learning first-hand the art of science in the laboratories where the work is being done.
A comprehensive University of Illinois program geared for the education of undergraduate students in the life sciences and fostering community outreach has received a $1.6 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
American society need to take a critical look at treatment programs for men who batter their wives or girlfriends and stringently test them to make sure that they actually work to end domestic violence, says one of the leading researchers of abusive relationships.
A new joint venture of Smith College and Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering promises to put more women in the engineering pipeline.
Widespread human rights abuses in apartheid-era South Africa have been extensively detailed, most recently in hearings conducted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). However, what is the psychological effect of testifying before the TRC among victims of human rights abuses?
Children of divorced parents are more liekly to become smokers as adults than children who parents stayed together. Boys are more likely to become problem drinkers as adults than boys from intact families
Every day in communities across the US a bond is broken. It's the bond between people and their pets, resulting in millions of pets being surrendered to shelters each year. And little has been known about the reasons why until now.
The Lifeline(tm) program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center provides seniors with a continuum of care, emergency assistance, peace of mind, and the ability to maintain their dignity through independence.
Political experts from the University of California, San Diego are available to provide commentary to the news media on politial issues and the upcoming elections in November.
Teachers Encouraging a Love for Literature, a Purdue University program, includes teachers, librarians, authors, illustrators and academics who hope to create a generation of readers by putting the people who create children's books into the classroom.
Patients who viewed videotapes explaining how they would feel after coronary bypass surgery generally recovered more quickly from their procedures, resulting in shorter stays in intensive care and in the hospital.
Did a popular dietary supplement help Mark McGwire break baseball's home run record? There's no evidence either way, according to a researcher at Ball State University's Human Performance Laboratory, speaking for the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).
President Clinton at a ceremony in the White House announced ten individuals and eight institutions as recipients of the 1998 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, a three-year-old award administered and funded through the National Science Foundation.
Move over, Blanche DuBois -- step aside, STEL-LAAAH!!! -- hit the road, Brick. A whole new cast of Tennessee Williams characters is bringing drama to life on the world's stages this year. It's a raw and gritty tale of prison torture.
While kids are struggling with subjects such as math or history this fall, some of their parents may be wishing they just knew more about being a parent. Answers are close at hand through the National Parent Information Network.
Adults embroiled in a long, bitter divorce fight often put their kids in the middle. A program implemented eight years ago in Champaign County in Illinois, however, appears to be taking the sting out of cases with the highest levels of conflict among moms and dads, researchers say.
"Works and plays well with others," that seemingly minor item on many a kindergarten report card, may be much more important to a child's academic success than many parents realize, a University of Illinois professor of educational psychology says.
A new study finds that the daily employment grind for two-income couples actually has little effect on the frequency or quality of their sex life.
On September 10, Mount Holyoke College professor of chemistry Sheila E. Browne will receive a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring at the White House from President Clinton.
No matter how many homers Mighty Mark McGwire and Slammin' Sammy Sosa smash this year or in any future year, no player is ever likely to threaten Babe Ruth's indisputable ranking as baseball's greatest batter, contends University of Delaware Treasurer Stephen M. Grimble, author of Setting the Record Straight: Baseball's Greatest Batters.
Although many Americans wish the entire public current debate about sexual behavior in high place would just go away, that's not necessarily a good thing, claims a sociologist who says "sexuality is a precious, positive part of life, not a prurient part."
Women are making substantial political progress worldwide as members of parliaments and Cabinet ministers, but after a century of participation in politics they still constitute just 12 percent of elected legislators and 9 percent of Cabinet appointees, according to a new study by a University of Notre Dame political scientist.
Smoking reduction goals in U.S., Canada unattainable without massive spending probram, UC Irvine Study Shows.
The Conference Board's Business Cycle Indicators database -- which includes the Leading Economic Indicators that are among the most widely-watched barometers of future economic trends -- is now available to students using two prominent undergraduate economic textbooks.
Two Johns Hopkins University experts are available to comment on the upcoming German elections, in which longtime chancellor Helmut Kohl faces a serious challenge.
An award-winning program to curb schools of crawling critters makes the health and safety of students its primary goal. School Integrated Pest Management makes everone an "exterminator" and reduces the need for pesticide sprays.
Are jurors influenced by the race of defendants? According to a University of Michigan study, the answer is yes. But the juror's race, as well as the defendant's, affects courtroom decisions, with different types of criminal trials affecting Black and white jurors in different ways.
If you're still waiting for adult children to settle down and start producing some grandchildren, University of Michigan research suggests you may have only yourself to blame.
A new book by a University of Georgia genetics professor brings together the most recent discoveries in evolutionary and molecular genetics and uses them to show a vital link between all aspects of human life -- including religion.
Amid growing concerns that not enough Americans are pursuing technical careers, a new Harris Poll survey released today shows that the U.S. public feels uninformed about the engineering enterprise and betrays a startling lack of knowledge about engineers' involvement in key areas of American endeavor.
The first-known examples of glass from the Iron I archaeological era were found in the Cornell University research area of the Tel Dor, Israel, archaeological site, according to Jeffrey Zorn, Cornell visiting lecturer in Near Eastern studies.
A University of Kansas economics professor and associate director of KU's Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, is currently in Moscow and is available to discuss Russia's economy on a first-hand basis.
1.Are school uniforms a good idea? 2.Concussions and high school athletes. 3. Block scheduling. 4. Parents and the morning rush. 5. Head lice
How do I look? Even if the answer is "Great," just asking the question can have a harmful effect on a woman's emotional health and mental performance, according to a University of Michigan study published in a recent issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
The European Union will issue a statement on Russia's deepening political and economic crisis on Wednesday, Sept 2, 1998. "The continuing turmoil in Russia threatens not only Russian President Boris Yeltsin, but also poses a threat to the European Union," said Alan Cafruny, Ph.D., Hamilton College, a leading expert in the formation and governance of the European Union.
Vassar College has been named College of the Year by the editors of the 1999 edition of "The Best College for You," a co-publication of TIME Magazine and The Princeton Review.
The Marine Biological Laboratory's Science Writing Fellowships Program and the Center for Children's Environmental Literature is co-sponsoring an Author, Illustrator, Biologist Institute during the weekend of October 9th in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
When it comes to equal pay for equal work, one would expect women in the '90s to have a stronger sense of entitlement and self-esteem than women did two decades ago. But an experiment conducted by Stanford Business School assistant professor John Jost found that women paid themselves 18 percent less than men paid themselves for the same work.
A new how-to book for dog owners addresses the problem of what to do when your pet becomes injured. The Purdue professor who wrote the book saw a need for such knowledge in the aftermath of a hurricane.
The AFL-CIO, over time, has become more interested in issues of concern to women in its policy agenda, which has major implications for the revitalization of the labor movement.
A CD-ROM produced by students at Johns Hopkins University will help learners better explore Ibsen's "A Doll's House," with side-by-side video clips of different actors interpreting the key characters, scripts, commentaries and background material.
This fall, Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will require all incoming students to create and maintain a personal Web page--an "electronic portfolio" which will serve as an intellectual archive of students' undergraduate achievements.
Previous research has shown that having many siblings is associated with poorer school performance for all the children in a family. But a new nationwide study has found an intriguing exception among Mormon families.
The World Wide Web is the home for millions of pages of information on every topic that the human mind has been able to conceive. It also is a home for plagiarism.
Our most effective presidents have mastered the transactional skills of bargaining and maneuvering while also practicing moral or transforming leadership, according to the author of a new book on presidential leadership, a Vanderbilt University professor.
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