Study uncovers educational benefits of MySpace

 

Christine Greenhow has found in her first-of-its-kind study that students from low-income groups are just as technologically savvy as their peers. The study also uncovered many educational benefits to integrating social networking sites into the classroom.

Check & Connect program yields telling results

Dropping out of high school can produce many negative outcomes for young people, including lower future income and higher unemployment rates than high school graduates. Check & Connect, an intervention program developed by professor Sandra Christenson in the Department of Educational Psychology, reaches out to young people before they check out on school.
[Read more at "Leaving schools behind."]

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