Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children. Show all posts

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Childcare doesn't upset development

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Putting kids into childcare before their first birthday does not disrupt short-term development, suggests a study of around 1,000 Australian children.

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Friday, 15 June 2012

iPad App Evaluation for the Classroom

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The app development market is exploding. More and more companies are creating “educational apps”. In some cases, they are simply digital versions of a book or a web based tool. Some seem to have “no educational value” to it at all, but are still sold under the label of “education”.

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Monday, 11 June 2012

Do Children of Same-Sex Parents Really Fare Worse?

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Adult children of parents who have had same-sex partners sometimes fare measurably worse than adult children from long-term heterosexual married parents.

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Thursday, 7 June 2012

Scientists Decode an Unborn Baby’s DNA. Is It Cause for Celebration — or Alarm?

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Suspended in the blood of a pregnant woman — along with some added information from a dad-to-be’s saliva — lurks enough fetal DNA to map out an unborn baby’s entire genetic blueprint.

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