Stories indexed under: Educational psychology
Total: 5
- Reading, writing and relationships: Tips for parents on the social aspects of back to school Aug. 24, 2011 The pencils and notebooks have been purchased and the new shoes have been broken in, but there are other preparations parents can be making to help children get ready for the social and emotional aspects of going back to school.
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Federal grants power research on computer games and learning
Sept. 29, 2009
A research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently won $4.5 million in federal grants to study computer games and learning.
- Six faculty members receive Kellett Mid-Career Awards March 18, 2008 Six UW–Madison faculty have been honored for their research with Kellett Mid-Career Awards.
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Professor plants seeds of forgiveness in Belfast, Milwaukee
April 24, 2007
Bob Enright, a professor of educational psychology and his wife, Jeanette Knutson Enright, have been leading initiatives in Northern Ireland and Milwaukee to develop, introduce and assess a comprehensive curriculum for introducing children to the idea of forgiveness.
- Study focuses on closing school achievement gap March 13, 2007 Despite decades of interventions and billions of dollars spent, a large gap in school achievement stubbornly persists between underprivileged children and their more advantaged peers. With funding from the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery seed grant program, UW–Madison scientists will now bring their collective expertise to bear on one important, but overlooked, cause of this troubling problem.