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How Covid-19 lockdowns left long-term scars on children | BBC
Judith Perrigo, an education researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, had been watching scores in reading and maths slowly decline in the U.S. for years. Perrigo leads a long-term study of kindergarteners that has been going on for 14 years. The study asks their teachers to give a score on each student’s physical health and well-being; social competence; emotional maturity; language and cognitive development; and communication and general knowledge. (Perrigo was quoted.)
California poorly trains and supports teaching math | EdSource
Kyndall Brown, executive director of the California Mathematics Project based at UCLA, agrees. “It’s not just about knowing the content, it’s about helping students learn the content, which are two completely different things,” he said.
As feds abdicate responsibilities, states should unite | Los Angeles Times
(Commentary co-written by UCLA’s Jon Michaels) Until January, the federal government and the states had a mutually beneficial and straightforward deal: The federal government prioritized challenges requiring national solutions — e.g., national security, natural and public-health disaster relief, managing the American economy. For their part, the states delivered primarily local goods and services — Medicaid and Medicare, much of our transportation infrastructure, public education.
Metro’s long-awaited airport train station opens | LAist
Jacob Wasserman, a transportation researcher at UCLA, said the new station won’t totally change how people are accustomed to getting to the airport. “I don’t think that the issues of people seeing driving as the only way to get to the airport are going to go away, even with a transit connection,” Wasserman said.
Advocates see Trump’s actions on Pride Month as ‘bullying’ | USA Today
A report from the Williams Institute at the [UCLA School of Law] looked at the fallout from another early executive order of Trump’s that imposed restrictions on transgender students in K-12 schools.
7 hidden ways Trump’s megabill would remake America | New York Times
(Commentary by UCLA’s Jean Guerrero) This bill would pave the way for the largest investment in federal immigration enforcement since the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security in 2002 — one that would turn that department into a Trojan horse for an assault on the civil rights of all Americans.
Spending too much time sitting could raise your Alzheimer’s risk | Health
“This study is an important contribution to the growing body of evidence showing that how we move — or don’t move — throughout the day can meaningfully affect brain health,” said Prabha Siddarth, a research statistician at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. “Sedentary behavior itself may be an independent risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease.”
6 daily habits doctors say will help you live longer | Self
During slow-wave sleep, the brain “clears out a lot of the physiological debris that is created through our everyday bodily functions,” Linda Ercoli, a geriatric psychologist and interim director of the UCLA Longevity Center, tells Self. (That process is essential to staying sharp and warding off cognition issues down the line.)
Autopsy reveals why 9-year-old died after dental surgery | Los Angeles Times
It’s not clear if Moreno had the congenital form of methemoglobinemia, meaning present at birth, or a form triggered by exposure to certain medications. The disorder leads to symptoms such as shortness of breath, fatigue and cyanosis, or bluish discoloration of the skin, said Dr. Michael Levine of UCLA Health.
Weight stigma isn’t just cruel — it makes losing weight harder | CNN
People often have a hard time going to the gym or getting outside for exercise, because it can feel intimidating or overwhelming, said Dr. Janet Tomiyama, professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study.
Anti-inflammatory diet benefits colon cancer survivors | Healthline
Another possible mechanism behind anti-inflammatory diets and survival rates is due to the impact of the phytonutrients found in anti-inflammatory foods. “It is likely in some parts related to the increase in phytonutrients found in anti-inflammatory diets that protect the gut mucosa (the lining of the colon) and the good bacteria that are in the colon,” said Dana Hunnes, a senior dietitian supervisor at RR-UCLA Medical Center. Hunnes wasn’t involved in the study.
