Walking rates to school remain low for U.S. children in large part due to parent concern for child safety. Little research has investigated the specific features of streets and intersection networks that parents associate with safe walking networks for children. To investigate which aspects of the child walking environment lead to parental concern, parent volunteers conducted an audit of street...

Auditory perception of English minimal pairs was tested with or without noise background. Each subject was interviewed after the test to collect information regarding their early experience on learning English as a foreign language. This study was designed to examine the differential effects of learning English at three age-starting points and two learning durations. This study hopes to determi...

BACKGROUND The potential benefits of active school travel (AST) are widely recognized, yet there is consistent evidence of a systematic decline in the use of active modes of transportation to school since the middle part of the 20th century. This study explored parental accounts of the school travel mode choice decision-making process. METHODS Thirty-seven parents of children (17 who walked; ...

BACKGROUND Early environmental influences have been linked to child weight status, however further understanding of associations in diverse populations is needed. METHODS A cross-sectional analysis of household and family factors associated with overweight was conducted on a culturally diverse, urban dwelling sample of 820 first through third graders (mean age 7.6 ± 1.0 years) residing in thr...

Since flipped learning has introduced by J. Bergmann and A. Sams, researchers have proven the new method of lectures improves students’ recognition and participation of classes at any level of schools, which included from elementary schools to colleges. This paper analyzed the journals and dissertations of the effect of flipped learning on Korean students. The result is positive to represent th...

The present paper reports a cluster randomized control trial evaluation of teaching using ABRACADABRA (ABRA), an evidence-based and web-based literacy intervention (http://abralite.concordia.ca) with 107 kindergarten and 96 grade 1 children in 24 classes (12 intervention 12 control classes) from all 12 elementary schools in one school district in Canada. Children in the intervention condition r...

Food security—the assured access of all people to enough food for a healthy and active life—is the focus of considerable policy and research attention. This paper examines the relationship between both household and contextual characteristics and food security among households with elementary school children in Wisconsin, using new data from a self-administered survey sent home to parents. We f...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of childhood suicidal deaths among elementary school students that occurred from 2011 to 2015 in Korea. METHODS The report form of each suicide case by the teacher in charge to the Education Ministry was reviewed retrospectively. RESULTS There were 19 suicidal deaths (12 boys, 7 girls) in elementary school students. T...

In a previous study, parent-child praise was observed in natural interactions at home when children were 1, 2, and 3 years of age. Children who received a relatively high proportion of process praise (e.g., praise for effort and strategies) showed stronger incremental motivational frameworks, including a belief that intelligence can be developed and a greater desire for challenge, when they wer...

OBJECTIVE To examine the availability of competitive foods in elementary schools. DESIGN Nationally representative mail-back survey. SETTING United States public and private elementary schools during the 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, and 2009-2010 school years. PARTICIPANTS Survey respondents at 2647 public and 1205 private elementary schools. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE The availability of...