This article is intended to provide evidence to suggest that information for teachers regarding transgendered children does not represent an adequate picture of transgendered children in schools and that primary schools need to be made more aware of how to deal with transgendered children, even if these children do not make themselves known to staff. It will argue that this is probably a contri...

Information and Communication Technologies are rapidly growing together: Starting from this hypothesis I will demonstrate consequences for teaching and learning, when the "Computer" is converting to a "Communicator": the new label for the compound is "Telematics". The technical possibilities are changing the forms of communication and initiate new attitudes towards teaching and learning. Certai...

This paper discusses (a) the role of cognitive and noncognitive ability in shaping adult outcomes, (b) the early emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the role of families in creating these abilities, (d) adverse trends in American families, and (e) the effectiveness of early interventions in offsetting these ...

One of the most valuable of recent efforts for the treatment of mental disease has been the establishment of the Maudsley Hospital with its pathological department for the purpose of research in psychological medicine. Started at the suggestion of Dr. Henry Maudsley, who gave altogether ?40,000 towards the cost of building, it was erected for the teaching of this subject, and for the treatment,...

In recent years Manukau Institute of Technology has offered a range of DipICT Level 5 modules in local high schools to fill a gap caused by the lack of bursary and 6th form certificate qualifications and to raise the profile of computing and IT within schools. Other NACCQ providers have done similarly. DipICT L5 modules, taught by teachers accredited with our CIT department, have also provided ...

This paper investigates the prevalence of coworker and supervisor incivility in the context of K-12 schools and incivility’s possible link to teachers’ commitment to the school and turnover intent. The data were collected via surveys from 94 middle school teachers in the United States. Results indicated that 85% of the teachers experienced coworker incivility over the past year; 71% experienced...

A model based on shoaling fish suggests how a group can show decision-making properties beyond those of any one individual.

As pediatricians and professors dedicated to the prevention of childhood obesity, we were disappointed by the March 2015 American Academy of Pediatrics’ Policy Statement on “Snacks, Sweetened Beverages, Added Sugars, and Schools.” The American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Nutrition and Council on School Health endorsed this statement, which seems to accept the trend that 70% of milk cons...

-Recently developed techniques for the investigation of iron kinetics were used to study the disturbance of iron metabolism in 19 untreated patients with Hodgkin's diseases (HD). The erythroid abnormality in newly diagnosed HD appears to be confined to those patients with systemic symptoms of weight loss, night sweats and fever, and consists of depression of marrow erythroid activity. These pat...