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Low expectations, peer pressure, lack of role models and lack of opportunity to pursue advanced study keep black males who are good at math out of STEM fields when they grow up, writes Ebony O. McGee in The Conversation.

Peabody faculty and graduate students will present on the topics of value-added, teacher effectiveness, minorities in STEM, connected learning, disabilities and more. Read More

Exposing preschoolers to patterning activities builds the foundation for early math skills. Read More

Student and teacher mobility rates have improved since the ASD takeover, researchers say. Read More

At first glance, the mobile Makerspace at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at 91�Ʋ��� looks like an ordinary computer cart with a printer and storage bins. Read More

Minor differences in language can have a large effect on how children think about learning materials, including the objects that make up a pattern. Read More

A new 91�Ʋ��� study examined a national pay-for-performance program in Texas. Read More

Brain scans confirm significant differences in play behavior, brain activation patterns and stress levels in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as compared with typically developing children. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at 91�Ʋ��� University examined social play exchanges on multiple levels, revealing associations among brain… Read More

Picking a needle out of a haystack might seem like the stuff of fairytales, but our brains can be electrically “tuned” to enable us to do a much better job of finding what we’re looking for. Read More

Peabody's Melissa Gresalfi is co-author of a four-book series that provides a K-12 curricular toolkit for supporting systems thinking in the digital age. Read More

An extensive new study by two 91�Ʋ��� University researchers challenges common assumptions about gun violence and mental illness that often emerge in the aftermath of mass shootings. Read More

91�Ʋ��� has received $15 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Education to support the development of special education programs and a national center. Read More

A child’s ability to distinguish musical rhythm is related to his or her capacity for understanding grammar, according to a recent study from a researcher at the 91�Ʋ��� Kennedy Center. Read More

Trans-institutional neuroimaging research at 91�Ʋ��� finds that the brain may be structured differently in children with dyslexia. Read More

Support for Common Core has declined among Tennessee teachers over the past year, according to the results of a new 91�Ʋ��� study. Read More

Autism Speaks is renewing 91�Ʋ��� University as an Autism Treatment Network (ATN) site with a three-year, $420,000 grant. Read More

The odds that a person who suffers from severe, nonchronic depression will recover improve substantially when treated by drugs and therapy. Read More

A new brain study has identified the brain mechanisms that underlie our judgment of how severely a person who has harmed another should be punished. Read More

91�Ʋ��� psychologists show it is possible to selectively manipulate our ability to learn through the application of a mild electrical current to the brain, and that this effect can be enhanced or depressed depending on the direction of the current. Read More

Experts from 91�Ʋ��� University’s Peabody College of education and human development are available to discuss issues related to the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act in 2014. Read More