Researchers at Cardiff University are beginning to shed light on the unusual dynamics that operate in families where a child shows symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Cognitive scientists at Ohio State University are challenging the conventional wisdom of decades of school math teaching by suggesting that using “real world” examples to explain abstract concepts may not help children to learn.
We know it’s wrong to judge others by the lucky or unlucky events that befall them – but US researchers are finding that that’s what children the world over tend to do, with important consequences for the less fortunate.
Long-term studies of the behavior of 1,000 families in the Netherlands suggest that too little sleep early in life is associated with later anxiety and aggression.
Harvard researchers’ scrutiny of after-school programs has identified numerous academic and health benefits, particularly when parents help to plan the content.
The causes of autism continue to perplex, but Pittsburgh researchers find some evidence that family functioning, which may itself have a genetic aspect, can mitigate or aggravate certain of the symptoms.
Canada is the first country to ban bisphenol (BPA) from the manufacture of infants drink containers. BPA has been associated with cancers and other serious disorders in animals. Other countries are expected to follow Canada’s lead.
Studies in five Australian high schools have persuaded researchers to float the concept of “academic buoyancy” as a useful measure of everyday resilience to classroom setbacks.
Louise Morpeth explains why new thinking about ‘drift’ as a normal aspect of service implementation is persuading researchers to ask themselves not "Why is fidelity so hard?" but "How much infidelity is tolerable?".
The strategic thinking of Nobel prize winning economist James Heckman, a package of prevention programs based on models from the US and northern Europe, and proposals for a UK assessment body of the caliber of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado combine in a major experiment announced today by the UK city of Nottingham.
Analysis of studies involving 17,000 adolescents in eleven countries indicates that cooperative approaches to learning are more closely associated with high achievement than competitive, individualistic ones.
Research connecting the experience of mothers and grandmothers in Germany, India and the Cameroons suggests a connection between the worldwide movement from interdependent rural to individualistic urban societies and the emergence of a global "science" of parenting.
More sophisticated risk assessment built on a better understanding of traits and vulnerabilities has enabled US caseworkers to make more accurate predictions about which families in the child protection system are most likely to continue to harm or neglect their children.
Research that has generated the unnerving statistic that the average four-year-old tells a lie once every two hours has also identified an association between honesty in the home and families who argue a lot.
Millions being spent on UK children and families initiatives, a new government press release almost every day – but where’s the investment in research and where’s the evaluation evidence to show that any of it is working?
The Guardian’s Ben Goldacre spells out the danger that mere lip service to scientific principles will backfire and schools won’t trust advice about anything that it might be pleasurable or rewarding for children to do unless it’s dressed up in the “neurosciency language” of the Brain Gym.
Have researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand hammered the last nail in the coffin of the idea that single parenting is ever at the root of children’s problems?
More