04.06.2009 2:50 pm

More sobering research on poverty, stress and a child’s ability to learn

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If you’ve been following previous posts here about the predominance of Post Traumatic Stress disorder in at-risk St. Louis school children, or my Sunday story on probationary juveniles participating in the city’s Gun Court, you know that researchers have found…

Tags: at-risk children, learning, poverty, short-term memory, St. Louis, stress, working memory

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09.21.2008 9:35 pm

So much for thinking outside the (boom) box

By Steve Giegerich

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Jennifer McDaniel, an English teacher in Downington, Penn., may not have known that permitting her 9th graders to plug in their iPods during a writing exercise violated the establishment’s acceptable standards for learning.

But she did see the benefits.

“For the first…

Tags: innovation, learning, music, Teaching

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More sobering research on poverty, stress and a child’s ability to learn

So much for thinking outside the (boom) box

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