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A new Chicago-based study shows that living in a neighborhood where a violent death occurs may harm a child's ability to think in the days immediately afterward even if the child wasn't a witness.
Patrick Sharkey of New York University plotted areas in Chicago where more than 6,000 homicides occurred between 1994 and 2002. He then tracked how well African American and Hispanic children between the ages of 5 to 17 did on standardized reading and vocabulary tests given around the time of a homicide, comparing them with children in the same neighborhood who took the tests months before or after the homicides.
African American children tested within a week of a local homicide did significantly worse than children tested at another time. The poorer scores persisted up to nine days after the homicide. Hispanic children did not have different scores perhaps because the homicide victims were more likely to be African American than Hispanic, Sharkey wrote.
What's more amazing is the students who thrive and achieve amid violence in their neighborhoods. What would be more interesting is if a scholar did a study on what it takes for those children to persevere in schools despite their surroundings.
Is it a more emotional approach to teaching? More one-on-one attention? What teaching methods work to deal with the reality that we are living in an increasingly violent society?
Is it a more emotional approach to teaching? More one-on-one attention? What teaching methods work to deal with the reality that we are living in an increasingly violent society?
To read an abstract of the report, click here.
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By: ADMR on 6/22/2010 10:31AM
An Increasingly Violent Society...WOW
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