Psychology & Psychiatry

South Africa's reading crisis is a cognitive catastrophe

When the late Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko published his seminal book, "I write what I like", in 1978 it wasn't about individual self-expression or even self-indulgence. It was a political statement with its origins ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Speech-language pathologists can help kids who struggle to read

Educators call it the fourth-grade slump: a time when some children, faced with increasingly complex schoolwork, start to lose interest in reading. Yet classroom teachers may not employ the strategies that can get these students ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Teachers line up for hours in Madrid for virus test

Thousands of teachers lined up for hours in Madrid on Wednesday to be tested for the coronavirus before the start of the new school term next week as concern mounts over a spike in infections.

Psychology & Psychiatry

'Depression education' effective for some teens

In an assessment of their "depression literacy" program, which has already been taught to tens of thousands, Johns Hopkins researchers say the Adolescent Depression Awareness Program (ADAP) achieved its intended effect of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Western Balkan nations postpone school openings due to virus

Kosovo on Tuesday postponed the beginning of the school year for students up through high school by two weeks following a surge of infections due to the delta variant, and new precautions were taken in other Western Balkan ...

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