For Latino children, the unmet need is especially great. While Latinos are the fastest growing and largest minority group in the United States, making up a quarter of 3- and 4-year-olds, Latinos demonstrate the lowest preschool participation rates of any major ethnicity or race. And while mos...
More people in prison will be able to access financial aid for college with expanded federal Pell Grant eligibility in the coming years.
Financial aid is any form of funding that helps a student pay for college, such as a Pell Grant, loan or merit-based scholarship. Sarah Wood Jan. 23, 2025 A Guide to College Financial Aid As a prelaw student in your freshman year, keep your grades high and explore a ran...
A prerequisite for children with neurodevelopmental problems to have good mental health later in life is that the child receives the support of adults for learning to regulate and control emotions, attention, behaviour, cognition and independence [1,2]. Early detection by screening is in line with...
8. Encourage them to apply for a student card For many people, a student credit card is the first credit card they open. That's because most student cards give college students enrolled in a two- or four-year college the chance to build credit. Some even let them earn rewards and recei...
Children’s perceptions of competence are, like those of adults31,32, also influenced by societal stereotypes. That is, from a young age onward children start to apply the stereotype that people belonging to disadvantaged groups (i.e., low SES, non-Western migration background) have lower inte...
They apply to all equally, and all have the right to participate in decisions that affect their lives. The rule of law upholds and strengthens them, through legitimate claims on duty-bearers for accountability to international standards. One of the most important basic human rights is the right...
21 For example, they may become so socially disengaged that they lead increasingly sedentary lives and refrain from exercise. In addition, lonely children may smoke and drink more, possibly as a form of self-medication or as a way to gain approval from peers. In the present study, we ...
Apply, if appropriate, for the Barbara Karlin Grant. This grant was established by The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), which aims to encourage children’s fiction book writers. Grant applicants must be members of SCBWI who have never published a children’s book an...
Our aim was to see which types of switches occurred and examine children’s motivations for switching, so as to shed more light on the types of switches that very young children produce in a natural, multilingual setting. We did not attempt to propose a new taxonomy of switching but rather...