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What began as an unremarkable foray into the world of rowing has in retrospect become a launching pad for a successful seven-year career in the sport for lightweight men’s crew captain Jeff Overington. “I started rowing in ninth grade because a few of my friends were doing it, and they needed a fourth guy to row a four,” Overington said. “We had a great coach and won all of our races, so I decided to stick with it.” Early success...
...shine at the highest levels. Eastern Europe and Asia, on the other hand, place higher emphasis on rewarding mathematical skills, creating cultures that value progress and achievement in math far more than we do in the United States. Requiring that students merely perform just well enough to make the grade provides little motive to excel. In America, it seems, this paradigm holds true. The study suggests that while many girls have exceptional talent in math—the ability to become recognized math researchers, scientists, and engineers—they are rarely encouraged or applauded in the United States. Indicative...
...prominent role in Democratic politics, and this year is no exception. The UFT's parent organization, the American Federation of Teachers, which Weingarten also heads, publicly endorsed Obama for President in July. But while unions can signal to their members which candidate best serves their interests, a third-grade teacher telling her students she'll be voting for Obama is construed by many as overstepping. "This is not a relationship among adults - teachers are authority figures and role models for young students," says Stanford political science professor Terry Moe, who studies the nexus of teachers' unions and politics...
...skills needed to negotiate peacefully within a group. "Aggression becomes less and less of a normative way to get things done," he says. But children on the high-risk path appear unable to develop those social skills; their aggression ends up turning on them. "As children get older, in grade school, they slowly shift their aggression and tend to withdraw into shyness," Boivin said...
Boivin's study was careful to distinguish aggression from hyperactivity in children. While hyperactivity also often causes social problems and increases a child's risk of being victimized by about second grade, the authors did not find that it predicted peer victimization in young children. Rather, it was physical aggression in early childhood - behavior such as kicking, biting and bullying - that increased a child's odds of becoming a victim of that same behavior later...