For educators, the least dangerous assumption is to believe all students are capable of developing self-determination skills and will utilize those skills to gain a better quality of life through choice-making that ...

Difficulty self-regulating one’s emotions and behaviors is a common characteristic of individuals on the autism spectrum. The researcher investigated whether the use visuals decreased undesired behaviors in elementary-aged ...

This study addressed whether the implementation of the Harmony curriculum for social and emotional learning would increase positive student participation and engagement in the classroom. This was carried out in a high ...

Social emotional development includes a child’s experiences, expression, and management of emotions and the ability to establish positive and rewarding relationships with others (Cohen et al, 2005). The core features of ...

Beyond having captivating plots, the three novels composing The Hunger Games trilogy address significant cultural topics. Academics have written much about the books’ themes of food inequity, violence involving children, ...

Chemoreceptors are crucial for behaviors such as mate location and host selection in longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), yet their evolution and function remain underexplored. To address this, I have annotated ...

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Obesity has been defined as buildup of adipose tissue, but adipose tissue itself is not the cause of the effects associated with obesity. By examining the microbiota of the digestive tract in hibernating animals, it ...

Contemporary American politics has become increasingly divided over perceptions of abundance and scarcity. The twenty-first century understanding of the American Dream, a longstanding promise of wealth and status, clashes ...

Students who have been identified as having an emotional behavioral disability (EBD) in the K-12 educational system and who receive special educational services face multiple barriers to academic success and positive ...