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Financial education programs, income-based repayment plans promote prosperity

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Young adults with student loans who participate in financial education programs become better financial managers who are able to build their personal wealth after college, researchers at the University of Illinois found in a recent study. Social work professor Min Zhan and graduate student Gaurav Sinha analyzed data on 1,924 young adults […]

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Computer science education for Illinois children, teachers to be summit focus

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Teachers, lawmakers and other stakeholders will convene on the University of Illinois campus to discuss ways of ensuring that Illinois’ schoolchildren enter college and the workforce computer literate – and that the state’s colleges and universities are preparing teachers to provide that education. The inaugural Illinois Statewide K-12 Computer Science Education Summit […]

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Children use video games to explore science in two NSF-funded projects

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — University of Illinois educational psychology professor H. Chad Lane and his team of researchers believe that the future of humanity rests in the hands of scientists so young that they currently have homework assignments and bedtimes. The National Science Foundation seems to agree, recently awarding a total of $3.2 million in funding […]

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How can educators, coaches support student-athletes’ academic success?

Editor’s note: Joseph L. Cross, a research associate and postdoctoral fellow with the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and geology and microbiology professor Bruce W. Fouke suggest in a new paper that student-athletes are negatively affected by a rift between scholarly activities and sports, and that coaches and educators should work collaboratively to […]

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Study: Black students receive fewer warnings from teachers about misbehavior

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study of racial and ethnic disparities in school discipline found that black middle school students were significantly less likely than their white peers to receive verbal or written warnings from their teachers about behavioral infractions. “While at first glance, disparities in teacher warnings seem less concerning than being expelled or […]

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Parental involvement in children’s schooling consistently beneficial, study finds

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Experts have been divided in their advice to parents about how they can optimize their children’s academic, emotional and social development. In a new study of more than 480,800 families, psychologists at the University of Illinois found that the more involved parents were in their children’s schooling, the better the children’s academic […]

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Children from food-insecure households were more likely to attend school on Fridays if they received weekend meals through the BackPack food-distribution program at their school, according to a new study of 16 elementary schools in east central Illinois. The team, from left: Barbara H. Fiese, the director of the Family Resiliency Center; Brenda Koester, the center’s assistant director; and agriculture and consumer economics professor Craig Gundersen.

Receiving weekend food improves school attendance among children living with hunger

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Children living in food-insecure households are more likely to attend school on Fridays if they’re participating in a food-distribution program that provides them with backpacks of meals for the weekend, researchers at the University of Illinois found in a new study. Students participating in the BackPack food program missed one Friday on […]

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Study: I-Promise grants boost low-income U. of I. students’ graduation rates

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Freshmen from low-income families who received Illinois Promise loan-replacement grants at the University of Illinois were significantly more likely to graduate within five years compared with peers of similar family incomes who did not qualify for the program, a new study found. Susan Gershenfeld, the study’s lead author, compared five-year graduation rates […]

Agriculture From left, Sharon M. Nickols-Richardson, a professor of food science and human nutrition and director of Illinois Extension and Outreach; Cassandra J. Nikolaus, a graduate student in human nutrition and the lead author of the study; and Brenna Ellison, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics.

From left, Sharon M. Nickols-Richardson, a professor of food science and human nutrition and director of Illinois Extension and Outreach; Cassandra J. Nikolaus, a graduate student in human nutrition and the lead author of the study; and Brenna Ellison, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics.

Scholars: Estimates of food insecurity among college students problematic

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A growing body of research suggests that food insecurity is prevalent on college campuses. But according to a new paper from a team of University of Illinois experts who study food choice issues, just how many college students struggle with having enough to eat on a consistent basis is a difficult number […]

Expert viewpoints Community college transfer students are underrepresented at selective four-year institutions for a variety of reasons, even though a recent study shows that they complete degrees at equal or higher rates than their peers, according to Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, the director of the Office of Community College Research and Leadership at the U. of I.

Community college transfer students are underrepresented at selective four-year institutions for a variety of reasons, even though a recent study shows that they complete degrees at equal or higher rates than their peers, according to Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, the director of the Office of Community College Research and Leadership at the U. of I.

Why do so few community college grads transfer to elite colleges?

Eboni Zamani-Gallaher is the director of the Office of Community College Research and Leadership and associate head of the department of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois. Zamani-Gallaher spoke recently with News Bureau education editor Sharita Forrest about why so few students transfer from community colleges to selective colleges and universities. […]

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Presenting vocabulary words to students with gestures, even motions that don’t convey the meanings of the words, can improve students’ comprehension of new words in a foreign language, according to a new study co-written by University of Illinois educational psychology professor Kiel Christianson and graduate student Nayoung Kim.

Study: Gestures help students learn new words in different languages

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Students’ comprehension of words in a foreign language improves if teachers pair each word with a gesture – even if the gesture is arbitrary and does not represent a word’s actual meaning, researchers at the University of Illinois found. Any gestures are helpful in foreign-language instruction as long as they cannot be […]

Life sciences A research team led by University of Illinois recreation, sport and tourism professor Matthew Browning found in a study of third-grade students at more than 400 public schools in Chicago that urban greenery was not associated with higher math and reading test scores.

A research team led by University of Illinois recreation, sport and tourism professor Matthew Browning found in a study of third-grade students at more than 400 public schools in Chicago that urban greenery was not associated with higher math and reading test scores.

Environmental greenness may not improve student test scores, study finds

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Researchers at the University of Illinois and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service suggest in a new study that environmental greenness may not be associated with higher test scores in schoolchildren after all. In a study that involved more than 400 public schools in Chicago, the Illinois-led team found that there […]

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