Spanking may Affect a Child s Brain Development medindia.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medindia.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
With glitches and students opting out, how useful will STAAR be in identifying COVID-19 learning loss?
Texas schools need accurate data to diagnose student learning loss
A recent STAAR test booklet for seventh-grade math.( / Texas Education Agency)
Education leaders are desperate to quantify how much the COVID-19 pandemic has hampered students’ learning, saying that’s a key step in figuring out how to catch kids up.
They hope the STAAR test gives them an idea. But the student data stemming from this pandemic year will come with several caveats, namely because thousands of students won’t take the test either because they opted out or aren’t regularly attending school. And when Texas’ online testing system glitched out last week, it triggered yet another complication.
Led by Harvard researchers, a new study linking spanking and child brain development shows spanking could alter a child s neural responses to their environment, in similar ways to a child experiencing more severe violence.
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Little Known Details of Ruth Kagia, Influential State House Staffer
11 April 2021 - 12:45 pm
Ruth Kagia, the Deputy Chief of Staff (Policy & Strategy) in the Executive Office of the President of Kenya.
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Ruth Kagia holds the key position of Deputy Chief of Staff (Policy & Strategy) in the Executive Office of the President of Kenya but many do not know the quite power and influence she holds in government.
The position of Deputy Chief of Staff, Strategy and Policy, places her at the centre of formulating and driving the government’s political and socio-economic development programmes.
Alongside Nancy Gitau, President Uhuru s political advisor, Kanze Dena and Munira Mohammed, who are in charge of communications, Kagia is among a handful of women close to the seat of power at State House.