“It notices students who are doing the right thing. It creates this positive momentum, but also gives the students who might have missed the directions another way of hearing it without being nagging, and also seeing it in action…”
Link: http://n.pr/1lOvs30
“…we’ve learned that confrontation does not produce effective change…” Instead… evidence-based interventions including functional family therapy and cognitive behavioral treatments for adolescent substance abuse.”
Link: http://n.pr/1OMVttR
“The two main ways to organize papers are files and binders… Fortunately, end users who prefer binders have a number of choices beyond the basic binders found at every office supply store.”
Link: http://bit.ly/23qWShl
“A 2012 report on child identity theft from the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab delves into the problem of identity thieves targeting children… and found that roughly 10 percent of them were victims of ID theft.”
Link: http://bit.ly/1UoMnVI
“Maybe it was last January’s big measles outbreak at Disneyland that scared more California parents into getting their kids vaccinated. Or maybe health campaigns have become more persuasive. Or maybe schools getting stricter…”
“..it’s better to wait until a few hours into the snowfall to gather your fresh catch. Snow acts like a kind of atmospheric “scrubbing brush,” he explains. The longer the snow falls, the lower the pollution levels in the air, and thus in the snow.”
Link: http://n.pr/1OMTHJ3
“Blackwell believes by lowering the voting age to 16 — when young people are still in school and before they leave for college or the military — more of them will pick up the voting habit.”
Link: http://n.pr/1QzgzhT
“The same instructor, with all the same comments, all the same interactions with the class, received higher ratings if he was called Paul than if she was called Paula.”
Link: http://n.pr/1JBI1tW
“Mobicip offers a best-selling alternate browser for Safari that enables parental controls on your child’s iPhone or iPod Touch.”
“Fred Rogers was an ordained minister, but he was no televangelist, and he never tried to impose his beliefs on anyone. Behind the cardigans, though, was a man of deep faith. Using puppets rather than a pulpit, he preached a message of inherent worth and unconditional lovability to young viewers”