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Finding a way to predict a parent's potential for child abuse or neglect is now a real possibility. Researchers at the University of Washington, Seattle, have had encouraging success in developing reliable predictive measures. University of Washington researchers Mildred Disbrow, Hans Doerr, and Colleen Caulfield compared SS abusive and neglecting families (referred by Washington's Child Protective Service) with 54 nonabusing families, matching them for such characteristics as age… Read more

Advocates of progressive teaching methods claim that these foster the social and emotional development of children without in any way hindering their academic progress. Critics of the 'new' education on the other hand, equate 'progressive' with 'permissive', insist that levels of achievement are falling, and lay the blame for this firmly at the feet of curriculum innovators and progressive teachers.