For students with mild symptoms of disabilities, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, a diagnosis can do more harm than good, according to a study by Jayanti Owens, a Brown University sociologist. Owens' study shows that students without an ADHD diagnosis, who showed similar symptoms, had better behavioral and reading scores from teachers, than their peers diagnosed…

A new study tested first-time computer code learners to see what skills predicted their success. They found that language abilities were more important than mathematical acumen.

Many people may say that students should deal with a bully by addressing the adversary directly, but that may be misguided, asserts Jeff Nalin, a licensed clinical psychologist plus founder and chief clinical director at Paradigm Malibu Treatment Center. In this blog post, he writes that in some cases it may be best to remove…

Though reading difficulties can be varied and complex, students often have solutions if a school's most valuable resource - the teacher - works backward to find them. When schools commit to teacher expertise, a student can succeed across content areas, grade levels, and language experiences, regardless of what's making reading difficult.

What leaders can do help calm their community and keep students ready to learn.

Nearly 1 in 5 high school students seriously considers suicide in a year. After a cluster of suicides, a district decides it’s time to talk more frankly about the issue.

Research published in the Harvard Educational Review demonstrates the benefits of teaching to Black girls math grounded in social interaction and working together as a team.  

Lecturer Laura Schifter - an expert on federal education policy and special education — explains disproportionality and why so many students of color are placed in special education, often in separate classrooms from their peers. (webb-tv)

What educators can do to promote equity in teaching.

In North Carolina, some high schools considered to be racially integrated actually have racially segregated classrooms, according to a study by CALDER, a foundation-funded research group. The data could be tied to academic tracking, which assigns students to classes based on their academic achievement.

Seinäjoki i Finland blev världsberömd för fem år sedan när WHO lyfte fram att staden halverat andelen barn med övervikt och fetma. Men Vetenskapsradions och YLEs granskning visar att statistiken är missvisande, i själva verket har barnövervikten inte minskat i Seinäjoki nämnvärt och metoden som kopierats av flera länder ifrågasätts nu.

Dallas Independent School District has approved plans to install video cameras in all special-education classrooms. The cameras are intended to improve safety for students and help officials investigate incidents if they occur, but some say there are concerns related to privacy.