Faison, Karen; Formanek, John; Pickett, Anna Lou; Semrau, Barbara (1999). A Core Curriculum & Training Program To Prepare Paraeducators To Work in Center & Home Based Programs for Young Children with Disabilities from Birth to Age Five. Second Edition. These instructional materials are designed to provide personnel developers and trainers with resources that can be used to improve the performance of paraeducators working in center-based and home visitor programs for young children with disabilities from birth to age 5. The modules cover: (1) strengthening the instructional team, the roles of paraeducators working in inclusive environments for young children, and communication and problem solving; (2) human and legal rights of children with disabilities and their families; (3) principles of human development and factors that may impede typical human development; (4) the instructional process (individualized education and family services plans, assessment, data collection, goals and objectives, instructional interventions, and facilitating inclusion using developmentally appropriate activities); (5) working with families; (6) appreciating diversity; and (7) emergency, health, and safety procedures. The format for the instructional… [PDF]

Faison, Karen; Formanek, John; Pickett, Anna Lou; Woods, James (1999). A Core Curriculum & Training Program To Prepare Paraeducators To Work in Transitional Services and Supported Employment Programs. Second Edition. These instructional materials are designed to improve the performance of paraeducators working in transitional services and supported employment for teenagers and young adults with disabilities. The competency-based program helps participants to learn skills they can apply immediately, to accept new practices, and to increase their understanding of education issues. The modules cover: (1) strengthening the instructional team, roles of paraeducators working in transitional and vocational services, and communication and problem solving; (2) human and legal rights of children with disabilities and their families; (3) principles of human development and factors that may impede typical human development; (4) the instructional process (individualized education and transition plans, assessment, data collection, goals and objectives, instructional interventions, and instructional methods for facilitating transition); (5) working with families; (6) appreciating diversity; and (7) emergency,… [PDF]

Hunt, Xanthe; Lindland, Eric H.; Richter, Linda M.; Tomlinson, Mark; Watt, Kathryn (2019). Early Means Early: Understanding Popular Understandings of Early Childhood Development in South Africa. Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, v39 n3 p295-309. Scientific and policy advances are putting early childhood development (ECD) at the center of efforts to improve human development. This study was undertaken to understand what knowledge and attitudinal barriers exist that 25 hinder the full-scale roll-out of services for the youngest children and their families. We used anthropological methods honed by the Frameworks Institute to plumb beliefs about early childhood development among members of the public and implementation and policy stakeholders, and compare those with the findings from ECD research. While members of the public and stakeholders agree on the importance of ECD, as demonstrated in other country settings, a major barrier to directing services to the youngest children is a perceptual tendency to 'age up'. That is, to consider learning and other important skills as being acquired in the pre-school rather than infancy period. Communication strategies that incorporate debate are needed to give full effect to the ECD and… [Direct]

Stump, Jessica L. (2014). Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa Cell: Rights of Patients and Responsibilities of Medical Researchers. History Teacher, v48 n1 p127-180 Nov. On the day that Henrietta Lacks died, researcher Dr. George Gey excitedly appeared on national television. He held a vial of her cells in his hand for the entire world to see and stated, "It is possible that, from a fundamental study such as this, we will be able to learn a way by which cancer can be completely wiped out." Once separated from Henrietta, the HeLa cell line revolutionized medical science. The HeLa cells were the first line of human cells to survive outside of the human body, and because of that, a breakthrough discovery for medical science. His prediction about cancer proved premature, but Dr. Gey knew immediately the scientific importance of his discovery, and opened the floodgates to an exploration of medical science presenting questions about the importance of balancing rights and responsibilities. Individual rights of privacy and consent would clash as never before with the rapid advancement of medical research and the creation of the modern biomedical… [PDF]

Gamez, A. Matias; Rosas, Juan M. (2007). Associations in Human Instrumental Conditioning. Learning and Motivation, v38 n3 p242-261 Aug. Four experiments were conducted to study the contents of human instrumental conditioning. Experiment 1 found positive transfer between a discriminative stimulus (S[superscript D] and an instrumental response (R) that shared the outcome (O) with the response that was originally trained with the S[superscript D], showing the formation of an S[superscript D][right arrow]O association. Experiment 2 found that post-acquisition devaluation of an outcome selectively reduced the response trained with that outcome, showing the formation of a R[right arrow]O association. In Experiment 3, changing the outcome did not prevent participants from giving the response learned with each S[superscript D], even though none of the responses was appropriate for the new outcome, showing evidence of the formation of S[superscript D][right arrow]R associations in instrumental learning. The three binary associations were shown within the same basic experimental situation. Finally, Experiment 4 found evidence… [Direct]

Cohen, Rob; Gangi, Jane M.; Reilly, Mary Ann (2010). Deepening Literacy Learning: Art and Literature Engagements in K-8 Classrooms. Teaching–Learning Indigenous, Intercultural Worldviews: International Perspectives on Social Justice and Human Rights. IAP – Information Age Publishing, Inc. This book is a wonderful blending of methodologies. This juxtaposition of art and literature serves as an instrument for teachers to inspire their students to create, critique, compare and predict, all higher-level intellectual behaviors, while composing across symbol systems. The work contains detailed classroom transcripts of strategies that lend themselves to culturally responsive teaching while engaging students and developing in them the desire to learn. Following a foreword by Tonya Huber and a preface by Ruth A. Vinz, this book contains: (1) Opening Possibilities Through Transmediation (Mary Ann Reilly); (2) Global Multicultural Literature and the Read-Aloud and Writer's Workshop as a Site for Social Justice (Jane M. Gangi); (3) \Living in a Dream of Music\: Fluency Through Choral Reading and Narrative Pantomime (Jane M. Gangi); (4) \Having More To Say\: Developing Writing Fluency Through Collage (Mary Ann Reilly); (5) Recasting Text Through Reader's Theater and Story… [Direct]

Mahmoudi, Abdolreza; Shamsaei, Maryam (2017). The Relationship between Ethics and Politics in the View of Islam and Muslim Scholars. International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, v12 n5 p1391-1399. For a long time, this question has arisen that: whether the ethics and politics are in agreement or can we do some deeds which are profitable and acceptable at the same time. Some like the Machiavelians believe that to achieve a goal using all the methods and means are liable though they are immoral and unacceptable, because the profitable goal may not be accompanied with moral means. On the other hand, some believe that such goals should be ignored, because the achieve them we may utilize some immoral and illegitimate methods and means, and the human deeds should be moral. Generally, to reach human interest utilizing the moral means not only is possible but also is necessary. In this study, the authors try to find the relationship between ethics and politics and to show its impact on the political destination and prosperity of man in the view of Islamic scholars. The last hypothesis should be proved, because creating and tightening a link between ethics and politics in theory and… [PDF]

Liz Adams Lyngb√§ck; Rebecca Adami (2024). Enabling Multilingualism or Disabling Multilinguals? Interrogating Linguistic Discrimination in Swedish Preschool Policy. Human Rights Education Review, v7 n1 p5-25. In this paper we conduct a poststructural discourse analysis inspired by Carol Bacchi's 'What's the problem represented to be?' (WRP) approach. We explore what kinds of problems are formulated in preschool educational policy on multilingualism, and what underlying assumptions underlie the dominant discourse on language proficiency in Sweden. Serving as a case to discuss how racism, ableism and childism intersect with linguicism, we examine the importance of shifting from a 'children's (special) needs' discourse to a 'children's (language) rights' discourse through a social justice education framework. We draw upon Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's understanding of childism, which refers to prejudice and discrimination against children based on beliefs about their inferiority to adults. The right to and rights in education are contingent upon linguistic rights, upon students learning to use their first language, whether that be minority, indigenous or sign language…. [Direct]

(1990). Voices Rising: A Bulletin about Women and Popular Education. Volumes 1-4. 1987-1990. Voices Rising: A Bulletin about Women and Popular Education, v1-4 1987-1990. This document consists of the six issues of the serial "Voices Rising" issued during the four-year period 1987-1990. "Voices Rising" is the primary networking tool of the Women's Program of the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE). Articles in these issues include: "Tribute to a Courageous Woman–Nabila Breir"; "Centre for Women's Resources: Building the Filipino Women's Movement"; "Micro-Chip Technology: Its Impact on Women Workers"; "ICEA: Popular Education in Quebec"; "The Feminist Challenge to Adult Education: Highlights of a Seminar"; "Feminism and Popular Education"; "Jamaica: Building Democratic Organizations"; "Lebanon: Supporting Women's Daily Struggles"; "Reaching Women: An Informal Workshop on 'Media'"; "Strengthening Grassroots Solidarity: An Informal Workshop"; "Update on the Women's Program"; "Issues in Literacy in the Urban… [PDF]

Turnbull, Ann; Turnbull, Rud (2011). Right Science and Right Results: Lifestyle Change, PBS, and Human Dignity. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, v13 n2 p69-77 Apr. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the comprehensive supports necessary for an adult with multiple disabilities and significant problem behavior to experience an inclusive adulthood. Written from the perspective of parents, the article highlights \lessons learned\ about how to implement and finance comprehensive supports across domains of home living, work, friendships, community connections, wellness, as well as additional areas. Practice tips are provided in terms of potential replication. (Contains 1 figure and 1 table.)… [Direct]

Peercy, Chavanne; Svenson, Nanette (2016). The Role of Higher Education in Equitable Human Development. International Review of Education, v62 n2 p139-160 Apr. As developing countries continue to battle poverty despite strong economic growth, understanding the relationship between equity and human development becomes increasingly important. In this context, equity is not equivalent to equality for any specific outcome such as health status, education or income. It is an objective ideal whereby people's achievements are increasingly dependent upon personal effort, choice and initiative rather than predetermined characteristics such as race, gender and socioeconomic background. As such, equity becomes an issue of moral equality based on the belief that people should be treated as equals, with equal access to life chances. This ideal pursues equal access to public services, infrastructure and rights for all citizens, including the right to education. While evidence suggests that education builds healthier, richer, more equitable societies, research on this has focused predominantly on primary and secondary schooling. The authors of this paper… [Direct]

Hart, Brannon W.; Hart, Stuart N. (2014). Children's Rights and School Psychology: Historical Perspective and Implications for the Profession. School Psychology International, v35 n1 p6-28 Feb. School psychology and children's rights have great potential, well beyond what has been realized, for advancing the best interests of children, their communities, and societies. A child rights approach infused into school psychology can significantly contribute to the fulfillment of this potential. To respect and illuminate these factors and possibilities, a brief history of children's rights is presented, its major components as embodied in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and their relevance for education and the school community are clarified, and the opportunities for school psychology to champion and deeply integrate children's rights in policy and practice are explored. Employing this base, a proposal is made for a new social contract between school psychology and those it serves which moves beyond reactive problem oriented interventions to give primacy to proactive promotion of the well-being and full holistic development of the child, employing a prospective human… [Direct]

Yuliya Filippovska (2024). Doing the Impossible: Dealing with False Beliefs. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Antioch University. Fighting false information, propaganda, open lies, rumors, misinformation, and disinformation by attacking it directly and challenging it is the dominant strategy for dealing with false beliefs (Lazer et al., 2018; Maseri et al., 2020; Van Bavel et al., 2021), and it is an important one. Refuting falsity is crucial. At the same time, there are instances when fighting false information does not work (Ardevol-Abreu et al., 2020; McIntyre, 2018; Van Bavel et al., 2021). One of the reasons is that it denies another's worldview, belief systems, and, as a result, their identity and even right to exist. Searching for alternative strategies of dealing with falsity, this study used qualitative research methodology and conducted three focus group discussions. My research findings show that identifying and framing a narrative behind falsity shifts the dynamic from facts to interaction, from fighting to beginning relationships to that narrative and potentially people who stand for it,… [Direct]

Goldman, Ronald (1969). Human Rights. Tech Educ Ind Training, 2, 1, 24-25, 69 Jan. …

Kanbul, Sezer; Mustapha, Saleh Waziri; Nawaila, Muhammad Bello (2019). Is This Risky? Accessing Digital Literacy Level among Young Adult's in TRNC. Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age, v4 n2 p25-32. Young adulthood is an important development time period for humans where majority of them spend most of their time with technology. Which constitute all the millennials of whom are digital natives. Most of the people in this category pride themselves as tech-savvy and are so immersed in technology to the extent that drawing a boundary between offline and online is difficult if not impossible. This overconfidence most often than not leads this young people into committing risky behaviors online. Global research institute interested with children are now paying a very close attention when it comes to children's right in the digital world. Whereas Internet policy was design to suit adult internet users, leaving the young adult vulnerable. This research work explores the digital world of this young adults by conducting a mixed method research where open-ended questionnaires were given to 512 randomly selected undergraduate students of Near East University of the Turkish Republic of… [PDF]

Yoshii, Ryo (2019). Classification of Children with Learning Problems and the Establishment of Special Classes in Delaware from the 1930s to the Mid-1940s. Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, v55 n3 p353-370. This study focuses on J. E. Wallace Wallin, who recognised the rights of children with disabilities to receive an education, and who tackled the scientific classification of children and the provision of special classes in the state of Delaware from the 1930s to the middle of the 1940s. This study intends to clarify how Wallin recognised and classified children who exhibited learning problems, and how he provided an educational environment for them. Wallin advocated the democratic philosophy of providing differentiated education based on the individual differences among children. He classified children with learning problems as "mentally deficient", "backward", and "special subject-matter disabilities". He also recommended special educational treatment in not only special classes but also regular classes. He insisted that regular class teachers and special class teachers share the responsibility of educating children with disabilities. However, in… [Direct]

Malik, Mohammad Manzoor (2019). Theorizing on Role of Education in Developing Social Networking (SN) Ethics. Online Submission, International Journal of Education Humanities and Social Science v2 n6 p30-35. Social Networking (SN) gives freedom to socialize, report, create, choose, and share user-generated content and news. SN has become subject of researches in social sciences, however the current status of researches involving education and SN is largely one way serving educational interests and there is negligence of the role of education in developing SN ethics. As a result, SN ethics has not yet developed as a discipline or a field of study in its own right and in spite of many moral issue that have emerged from it. There is an unbreakable relation between SN and ethics. The social media aspect of SN, the socializing character of SN, and human centric nature of SN are difficult to be thought of without having an ethical framework. On the other hand, there is a role for ethics-based psychology in SN and it demands an ethical principle of freedom of speech. Due to complexities of SN ethics, it seems that its basis and foundation should be on social ethics; however, the technological… [PDF]

Blanchard, Joseph D. (1972). Measurement and Testing Considerations for Native American Education. Some of the general considerations and requirements for the establishment of a testing policy and procedures for a large education system are presented. Testing policy is considered necessary to establish a common understanding of the position of testing in the education program, the facilitation of the use of tests for academic gain, and to protect the civil and legal rights of all students, minority group students in particular. The following areas are discussed: (1) scope; (2) guidelines and assumptions; (3) student testing and program evaluation; (4) tests and Indian education objectives; (5) testing as feedback; (6) tests and student rights–multiple approaches to behavior sampling, the Indian student, human and civil rights, the use of criterion-referenced tests; (7) the relationship of tests to social values–fundamental postulate, social policy corollary, human potentiality and actuality, absolutism as irrational defense corollary, English language corollary, law of multiple…

Espinoza, Manuel Luis; Vossoughi, Shirin (2014). Perceiving Learning Anew: Social Interaction, Dignity, and Educational Rights. Harvard Educational Review, v84 n3 p285-313 Fall. What are the origins of educational rights? In this essay, Espinoza and Vossoughi assert that educational rights are "produced," "affirmed," and "negated" not only through legislative and legal channels but also through an evolving spectrum of educational activities embedded in everyday life. Thus, they argue that the "heart" of educational rights–the very idea that positive educative experiences resulting in learning are a human entitlement irrespective of social or legal status–has come to inhere in the educational experiences of persons subjected to social degradation and humiliation. After examining key moments in the African American educational rights experience as composite historical products, the authors determine that learning is "dignity-conferring" and "rights-generative." They revisit African slave narratives, testimony from landmark desegregation cases, and foundational texts in the history of African… [Direct]

Neumann, David (2018). "I Just Want to Do God's Will:" Teaching Martin Luther King, Jr. as a Religious Leader. Social Studies, v109 n1 p45-56. Teachers often respond to the perils of teaching about religion by simply avoiding the subject. An investigation of secondary lesson plans on three prominent Martin Luther King, Jr. websites reveals little attention to the ideology of the civil rights movement, especially those touching on religious ideas. Ignoring King's religious views risks fundamentally misrepresenting his identity, his ideology, and his motivation for nonviolence. "Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story", King's 1958 account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott articulates three key features of the theological framework that inspired his activism: the spiritual motivation for his leadership, the ethical basis for his strategy of nonviolent direct action, and the theological understanding of human nature that undergirded his leadership and strategy. These points provide a useful model for introducing King's ideas in the classroom. The effort to intentionally and thoughtfully teach religion could… [Direct]

Jeong, Lae-Ok; Kang, Mun-Koo; Kim, Yong-Myeong (2018). The Analysis of Flipped Learning Centered on Prospective Study. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, v10 n3 Article 4 p38-45. This article describes how the advent of the Information Age has brought an educational tendency to focus on the quality and morality, excluding the quantity of education and rote learning. This highlights the importance of developing competence of critical insight, problem solving, collaboration, communication, creative thinking, and cultural understanding in public education. However, the reality of education in Korea is that the public school fails to be apart from content-based learning, teacher-centered learning and ranking-oriented learning. To solve this problem, the Education Ministry suggests cultivating a creative human resource with integrated competency in the revised curriculum of 2015 and implement a free semester program. Moreover, flipped learning is being realized and researched as the shift the teaching paradigm, aiming to introduce it in each school. Accordingly, this project suggests establishing a step in the right direction of flipped learning so that it can be… [Direct]

(1991). Sexuality Rights Protection Policy. This booklet presents the policy of the Colorado Developmental Disabilities Planning Council to affirm and promote the sexuality rights and responsibilities of persons with disabilities. The purpose of the policy is to guide the community and empower persons with disabilities in Colorado to ensure that their inherent sexual rights and basic human needs are affirmed, defended, promoted, and respected. Guidelines are offer to assist in the development and implementation of policies and practices regarding human sexuality. The guidelines deal with privacy, sexual expression, access to sexuality education and services, agency responsibilities, staff training, definitions, legal implications, and laws relating to sexuality and persons with disabilities. (JDD)…

Gillam, Lynn; Spriggs, Merle (2019). Ethical Complexities in Child Co-Research. Research Ethics, v15 n1 Jan. Child co-research has become popular in social research involving children. This is attributed to the emphasis on children's rights and is seen as a way to promote children's agency and voice. It is a way of putting into practice the philosophy, common amongst childhood researchers, that children are experts on childhood. In this article, we discuss ethical complexities of involving children as co-researchers, beginning with an analysis of the literature, then drawing on data from interviews with researchers who conduct child co-research. We identify six ethical complexities, some of which are new findings which have not been mentioned before in this context. In light of these possible ethical complexities, a key finding is for researchers to be reflexive — to reflect on how the research may affect child co-researchers and participants before the research starts. A separate overriding message that came out in responses from the researchers we interviewed was the need for support and… [Direct]

Nugraha, Ikmanda; Roswati, Nelah; Rustaman, Nuryani Y. (2019). The Development of Science Comic in Human Digestive System Topic for Junior High School Students. Journal of Science Learning, v3 n1 p12-18. The science education approach has covered by using printed teaching media. One of the popular printed press that most accessible and may used in science education is a comic book. However, it is sometimes difficult to find the ideal and the appropriate comic books that can be used as the instructional tool of science education, because most of them are inappropriate for learning science and did not fit with the readers' culture. The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate the Science comic to contribute to science learning about Human Digestive System Topic (HDST) concepts. In this study, a science comic book was created and implemented to 92 students of year eight from three different junior high schools and three science teachers as a subject implementation development. Students' responses through the questionnaire and students-teachers' implementation test sheets evaluated through qualitative content analysis. The model used for this study is design and development. The… [PDF]

Katada, Fusa (2019). A Unipolar Concentration of English and the Multilingual-Semilingual Paradox. International Association for Development of the Information Society, Paper presented at the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) (16th, Cagliari, Italy, Nov 7-9, 2019). 'We have the right to talk and think in our own language.' This self-evident slogan is ever challenged in the digital age of the 21st century. 'Talking and thinking' is most effectively trained and achieved by formal education carried out in one's own language. However, multilingual children growing up in multilingual societies would have to adjust their own language to a language of education in schooling. This paper clarifies scientific grounds that in such situations the main root of learning and thinking through language is discontinuous. It is claimed that the students may face semilingualism, defined as 'linguistic competence insufficiently developed for complex conceptual thinking'. Multilingualism and semilingualism are two sides of one coin, and semilingualism is affecting many parts of the world. This is due to the established eminence of English as a global lingua franca (ELF), which serves as their language of education. This paper is qualitative in nature, pointing out… [PDF]

Kongkaew, Sukanda; Ling, Alison; Meixi; Pinwanna, Amornrat; Theechumpa, Panthiwa (2022). Making Relatives: The Poetics and Politics of a Trans-Indigenous Teacher Collective. Comparative Education Review, v66 n3 p442-464 Aug. We write this article as educators working at Sahasatsuksa school, an urban Indigenous school in Thailand, who also maintain ties with related Redes de Tutor√≠a work in Mexico. This article engages the stories of our trans-Indigenous teacher collective to illustrate how poetic ways of making relatives across time advanced our intellectual, ethical, and political work. We ground our reaches for Indigenous futures in the Mekong through a lens of "relative-ness"–specifically how making relatives toward enacting more "poetic" forms of teaching and learning held "political" possibilities to disrupt colonial logics implicit in global schooling for Indigenous children. While the extension of schooling worldwide is deemed important for development, rhetorics of modernity have largely suppressed the rich family-based knowledges that Indigenous children bring into classrooms, contributing to the debilitation of human communities' intellectual and socioecological… [Direct]

Glazier, Rebecca A. (2021). Connecting in the Online Classroom: Building Rapport between Teachers and Students. Johns Hopkins University Press More students than ever before are taking online classes, yet higher education is facing an online retention crisis; students are failing and dropping out of online classes at dramatically higher rates than face-to-face classes. Grounded in academic research, original surveys, and experimental studies, "Connecting in the Online Classroom" demonstrates how connecting with students in online classes through even simple rapport-building efforts can significantly improve retention rates and help students succeed. Drawing on more than a dozen years of experience teaching and researching online, Rebecca Glazier provides practical, easy-to-use techniques that online instructors can implement right away to begin building rapport with their students, including: (1) proactively reaching out through personalized check-in emails; (2) creating opportunities for human connection before courses even begin through a short welcome survey; (3) communicating faculty investment in students'… [Direct]

Faison, Karen; Formanek, John; Pickett, Anna Lou (1999). A Core Curriculum & Training Program To Prepare Paraeducators To Work in Inclusive Classrooms Serving School Age Students with Disabilities. Second Edition. These instructional materials are designed to provide personnel developers and trainers with resources that can be used to improve the performance of paraeducators working in inclusive classrooms servicing school age students with disabilities. The competency-based program helps participants to learn skills they can apply immediately, to accept new practices, and to increase their understanding of education issues. The modules cover: (1) strengthening the teacher and paraeducator team, paraeducator roles and responsibilities, communication and problem solving; (2) human and legal rights of children and youth with disabilities and their families; (3) principles of human development and factors that may impede typical human development; (4) the instructional process (individualized education programs, assessment, data collection, goals and objectives, instructional interventions, strategies for one to one instruction and reinforcing lessons, approaches to teaching reading, arithmetic… [PDF]

McNair, Tia Brown; Pasquerella, Lynn; Saffold, Jacinta R. (2019). Finding Our Common Humanity amidst "The Fierce Urgency of Now". Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, v51 n1 p28-34. As institutions of higher education across the nation strive to prepare the next generation of student leaders, Dr. King's words echo in our ears: "We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there 'is' such a thing as being too late" (King, 2001). We must build on the work of courageous individual actors as well as historical and current movements that challenge racist ideologies. We must undo the ramifications of structures that perpetuate unfounded beliefs in the hierarchy of human value that have defined America's culture for far too long. The Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) national effort builds on the legacies of the Civil Rights movement and complements contemporary anti-racism initiatives by using coalition building to critically examine the history of racism in America, envisioning paths forward. TRHT seeks to unearth and extinguish the… [Direct]

Cantlon, Jessica F.; Emerson, Robert W. (2015). Continuity and Change in Children's Longitudinal Neural Responses to Numbers. Developmental Science, v18 n2 p314-326 Mar. Human children possess the ability to approximate numerical quantity nonverbally from a young age. Over the course of early childhood, children develop increasingly precise representations of numerical values, including a symbolic number system that allows them to conceive of numerical information as Arabic numerals or number words. Functional brain imaging studies of adults report that activity in bilateral regions of the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) represents a key neural correlate of numerical cognition. Developmental neuroimaging studies indicate that the right IPS develops its number-related neural response profile more rapidly than the left IPS during early childhood. One prediction that can be derived from previous findings is that there is longitudinal continuity in the number-related neural responses of the right IPS over development while the development of the left IPS depends on the acquisition of numerical skills. We tested this hypothesis using fMRI in a longitudinal… [Direct]