Struggling for change

Reading Fluency: Critical Issues for Struggling Readers

Intervention for Struggling Writers in Elementary School

Male students perform significantly lower than female students on tests that measure writing achievement. The purpose of this study was to explore the use of a visual graphic organizer application to engage elementary-aged male students who struggle with the writing process. The results suggest that teachers of male students should consider using a visual graphic organizer application for writi...

Cognitive systems struggling for word order.

We argue that the grammatical diversity observed among the world's languages emerges from the struggle between individual cognitive systems trying to impose their preferred structure on human language. We investigate the cognitive bases of the two most common word orders in the world's languages: SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) and SVO. Evidence from language change, grammaticalization, stability of ...

New Service Ventures – Struggling for Survival

Europe's struggling mammals

One year ago, JJ1 was Europe's most famous mammal. The male brown bear, also known by the more amiable name of 'Bruno', had wandered into Southern Germany from the Trentino in Italy. The appearance of this charismatic animal in a region where the last bear had been seen and killed 170 years ago seemed to fit a trend. Over the past ten years, wolves, elks, beavers and lynxes have been highly pub...