Increasingly frequent in media discourse and everyday language, the term resilience was said to have been used for the first time by Emmy Werner . This developmental psychologist focused in the 1980s and 1990s on the long-term consequences of stress occurring during the prenatal and perinatal periods, based on longitudinal research on 698 people from the island of Kauai […] … learn more→
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“The other side of words”: Resilience
Students lose out as cities and states give billions in property tax breaks to businesses − draining school budgets and especially hurting the poorest students
Built in 1910, James Elementary is a three-story brick school in Kansas City, Missouri’s historic Northeast neighborhood, with a bright blue front door framed by a sand-colored stone arch adorned with a gargoyle. As bustling students and teachers negotiate a maze of gray stairs with worn wooden handrails, Marjorie Mayes, the school’s principal, escorts a […] … learn more→
Academic failure: history and invention of a concept
The French school is reputed, at least in a significant part of public and political representations, to be locked in a multifaceted crisis. Thanks to these findings, attention has focused on “academic failure”, “dropouts” and the average results of French students in international rankings (PISA). This context of increased academic competition translates, in the eyes […] … learn more→
What are ‘multiplication facts’? Why are they essential to your child’s success in maths?
`One of the essential skills students need to master in primary school mathematics are “multiplication facts”. What are they? What are they so important? And how can you help your child master them? What are multiplication facts? Multiplication facts typically describe the answers to multiplication sums up to 10×10. Sums up to 10×10 are called […] … learn more→
Being a teacher abroad: an experience of professional and personal growth
Teaching in a country different from your own is a challenge that involves getting to know other educational systems, living with professionals from other places and is also a complete linguistic and cultural immersion. Being a teacher is a rewarding activity regardless of the educational stage in which we work, but being a teacher abroad […] … learn more→
60% of Australian English teachers think video games are a ‘legitimate’ text to study. But only 15% have used one
Are you worried about how much time your child spends playing video games? Do they “hibernate” for hours in their room, talking what seems like gibberish to their friends? Fresh air and life away from gaming are undeniably important. But it may help to know our research shows many English teachers are thinking seriously about how gaming […] … learn more→
Do young people today express themselves worse than those of before? What a RAE report says
Let’s imagine that we hear the alert on our mobile phone: we have received a message. When we open it, we read: “Hey, bro, I’m telling my mother that I’m going out like I’m going to the street calmly, that yesterday I was going three-phase even though that place was crazy as it is, but some […] … learn more→
Express yourself in writing, a skill that is acquired with practice
The recent results of the PISA report have revealed the deficiencies of Spanish and European students, in general, in reading competence. The recent report of the Royal Spanish Academy on the teaching of language and literature in Spain is expressed in a similar sense . Part of the blame is attributed to new technologies that encourage reading texts and short […] … learn more→
Why do we learn nursery rhymes in kindergarten?
In mid-December, before lunchtime, in the nursery school of a medium-sized provincial town, two mixed classes of medium and large sections are gathered with their teachers in the playground. Nearly fifty children aged 4 and 5 years repeat songs and nursery rhymes learned for the following week, with a view to a show which will be given for […] … learn more→
How to cope with a Biology homework & when to ask pros to help you?
You have to do a task on biology but do not know how to even begin it. No worries because our guide will open your eyes to many aspects & you will know whether you need fast biology homework writing help. What is biology? For better biology homework help, let’s define the term ¨biology¨. Biology […] … learn more→
