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1### [Popular Students -- But Not the Most Popular -- More Likely to Torment Peers , Study Finds](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110208091424.htm)
1### [Creative, Online Learning Tool Helps Students Tackle Real-World Problems](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110411152633.htm)
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3A new study finds that popularity increases aggression among adolescents, except for those at the very top and ... > [_full story_](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110208091424.htm)
3A new computer interface called ThinkSpace is helping students use what they've learned in the horticulture classroom and apply it to ... > [_full story_](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110411152633.htm)
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5### [Children's Genetic Potentials Are Subdued by Poverty: Effects Show by Age 2](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110131153532.htm)
5### [Science 101: Different Teaching Fosters Better Comprehension, Study Finds](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110405113256.htm)
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7Children from poorer families do worse in school, are less likely to graduate from high school, and are less likely to go to ... > [_full story_](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110131153532.htm)
7Introductory science courses -- in biology, chemistry, math and physics -- can be challenging for first-year college and university ... > [_full story_](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110405113256.htm)
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9### [High School Biology Teachers in U.S. Reluctant to Endorse Evolution in Class, Study Finds](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110127141657.htm)
9### [Bilinguals See the World in a Different Way, Study Suggests](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314132531.htm)
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11The majority of public high school biology teachers in the U.S. are not strong classroom advocates of evolutionary biology, ... > [_full story_](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110127141657.htm)
11Scientists have found that regularly speaking in a second language makes you literally see the world in a different way. Color perception is an ideal way ... > [_full story_](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314132531.htm)
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13### [Learning Science : Actively Recalling Information from Memory Beats Elaborate Study Methods](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110121111216.htm)
13### [Hands-on Learning Turns Children's Minds on to Science](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110302075953.htm)
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15Put down those science text books and work at recalling information from memory. That's the shorthand take away message of new research ... > [_full story_](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110121111216.htm)
15Thousands of schoolchildren will soon be asking the questions when inquiry-based learning comes to science classrooms across Europe, turning the traditional ... > [_full story_](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110302075953.htm)
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17- [Popular Students -- But Not the Most Popular -- More Likely to Torment Peers , Study Finds](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110208091424.htm)
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19- [High School Biology Teachers in U.S. Reluctant to Endorse Evolution in Class, Study Finds](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110127141657.htm)
20- [Learning Science : Actively Recalling Information from Memory Beats Elaborate Study Methods](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110121111216.htm)
17- [Creative, Online Learning Tool Helps Students Tackle Real-World Problems](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110411152633.htm)
18- [Science 101: Different Teaching Fosters Better Comprehension, Study Finds](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110405113256.htm)
19- [Bilinguals See the World in a Different Way, Study Suggests](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314132531.htm)
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39 February 18, 2011 - Cost-effectiveness analysis should play a bigger role in the health care system, argues a medical research expert. "The effects of science and technology on health care costs depend on the policy ... > [_full story_](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110218142448.htm)
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68 April 18, 2011 - Childhood obesity affects 1 of every 6 kids in the United States, in part due to a lack of physical activity. Schools can play a key part in offering elementary-age kids lots of chances to be active ... > [_full story_](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110418152510.htm)
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90 April 18, 2011 - In the wake of several highly publicized suicides by gay teenagers, a new study finds that a negative social environment surrounding gay youth is associated with high rates of suicide attempts by ... > [_full story_](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110418083245.htm)
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116 February 9, 2011 - Many school officials react in exactly the wrong ways when one of their students completes suicide, according to the authors of a new book. While they may be well-intentioned, administrators who ... > [_full story_](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110209121659.htm)
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