Mailing In Fecal Occult Blood Test Kits Works For Poor Colorectal ...

Direct mailing of fecal occult blood test (FOBT) kits to patients eligible for colorectal cancer screening appears to be efficacious for improving screening in historically underserved (government codespeak for 'poor') communities.

A randomized control trial including 202 patients at a community health clinic in Chicago, Ill., found patients assigned to an outreach intervention consisting of the mailing of FOBT kits with follow-up telephone calls to initial non-responders had a 30 percent screening rate, compared with a 5 percent screening rate among patients in the usual-care group.

Although prior studies have shown the direct-to-patient mailing of FOBT kits can lead to higher colorectal cancer screening rates in predominantly white, middle-class or well-insured populations, this study adds to the existing literature by demonstrating that this outreach strategy can significantly improve screening rates even among economically disadvantaged patients from a wide range of racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

This finding is especially important given the marked disparities in colorectal screening among racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with lower income and educational attainment, the uninsured and individuals born outside the United States.

Paper: 'Program to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening in a Low-Income, Racially Diverse Population: A Randomized Controlled Trial' By Muriel Jean-Jacques, MD, MA, et al September/October 2012 Annals of Family Medicine

Source: http://www.sciencecodex.com/mailing_in_fecal_occult_blood_test_kits_works_for_poor_colorectal_cancer_patients-98870

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Twitter CEO promises interactive tweets, defends curbs

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LA's Hammer Museum Debuts New Exhibition, Graphic Design ...

Los Angeles? Hammer Museum presents their latest exhibition, Graphic Design: Now In Production, beginning September 29,?2012 and running until January 6,?2013. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Smithsonian?s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, are both the initial coordinators of this new demonstration.

(Images Credit: cooperhewitt.org)

Key curators include Andrew Blauvelt, curator of architecture and design at The Walker Art Center, and Ellen Lupton, senior curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt. The presentation is a collaboration of works created since 2000; it showcases posters, books, magazines, identity and branding, information graphics, typography and typefaces, and film and television title graphics. Brooke Hodge, director, exhibition management and publications, spearheads the upcoming exhibit for the Hammer.

Celebrating both the recent technological advances in software and the societal changes due to social networking, the exhibit acts as somewhat of a timeline, guiding you through a progression in visual communication. The 21st?Century has proved an exciting time for those in the graphic design profession. From Albert Exergian?s poster based on American Television to Jop Van Bennekom?s Fantastic Man, which Interview Magazine calls, ?One of the most remarkable magazines of this era.?

(Images Credit: cooperhewitt.org)

If you?re looking for a stimulating afternoon, the Hammer Museum?s newest production is where you want to be!

WHERE:
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd. (at Westwood Blvd.)
Los Angeles, CA 90024

HOURS:?Tuesday-Friday 11 a.m. ? 8 p.m.

TICKETS: $10 for adults, $5 for seniors and UCLA Alumni members
Free for students, military personnel, veterans and visitors 17 and under.

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News in Brief: How the cheetah loses its spots

Mutations in one gene alter felines? coat coloring

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Mutations in a single gene can alter coat patterns in both cheetahs and domestic cats, a new study finds.

In both types of felines, mutations in the transmembrane aminopeptidase Q, or Taqpep, gene causes spots of color to merge. In cheetahs, a normal Taqpep gene makes for a coat with typical spots; mutations in the gene result in the rare king cheetah coat pattern.

In tabby cats, ?mackerel? cats have a normal Taqpep gene that creates dark, narrow, vertical stripes on a light background. The ?blotched? variety has a mutated gene that results in less regular whorls.

Taqpep?s protein sets a pre-pattern in the cats? skin during development, and the Endothelin3 protein comes along later to color in the lines, scientists report in the Sept. 21 Science. Because the patterns are set before birth, the stripes or spots on a cat?s coat do not change as the animal grows.

Found in: Genes & Cells

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/345332/title/News_in_Brief_How_the_cheetah_loses_its_spots

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Opera Mini For Android Gets A Personalized Homepage For Social Updates And News

Opera just released version 7.5 of its Opera Mini for Android browser. The main feature here is Opera's so-called "Smart Page," which is meant to give you a quick and easy-to-read update of what's happening in your social network, as well as a list of personalized news updates and a section with suggested links based on your location. The Smart Page, says Opera, is supposed to give you "a birds-eye view of what's happening."

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T-Mobile USA names Legere as its new CEO

FILE-In this Tuesday, July 30, 2002 file photo, Global Crossing Ltd. Chief Executive Officer John Legere appears on Capitol Hill before the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the financial turmoil in the telecommunications marketplace. Mobile USA named Legere, as its new CEO, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. The 54-year-old Legere takes over the post from interim CEO Jim Alling, who has served in that position since June. Alling will now return to his role as chief operating officer. (AP Photo/Kenneth Lambert, File)

FILE-In this Tuesday, July 30, 2002 file photo, Global Crossing Ltd. Chief Executive Officer John Legere appears on Capitol Hill before the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the financial turmoil in the telecommunications marketplace. Mobile USA named Legere, as its new CEO, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. The 54-year-old Legere takes over the post from interim CEO Jim Alling, who has served in that position since June. Alling will now return to his role as chief operating officer. (AP Photo/Kenneth Lambert, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? T-Mobile on Wednesday named the former CEO of Global Crossing, John Legere, as its new chief executive.

T-Mobile USA, which is based in Bellevue, Wash., is the U.S. cellphone business of Germay's Deutsche Telekom AG. The country's fourth-largest wireless carrier, it has been struggling to compete against its larger rivals.

The 54-year-old Legere takes over the post from interim CEO Jim Alling. He had served in that position since late June, when former CEO Philipp Humm resigned. Alling will now return to his role as chief operating officer.

Humm had taken the reins in November 2010, with a mission to reverse the slow slide of the business without help from Deutsche Telekom. But revenue continued to decline during every quarter that he was at the helm.

In the company's most recent quarter, T-Mobile lost subscribers and struggled to lure lucrative smartphone users.

Before working at Global Crossing, a long-distance telecommunications provider, Legere served as CEO of a Microsoft, Softbank and Global Crossing joint venture called Asia Global Crossing. He has also been an executive of Dell Computer Corp. and AT&T.

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Business Risk Management in the MENA Region | Iraq Business News

The UK?s Middle East Association (MEA) will be hosting a business briefing on how companies can assess and mitigate risks to their operations, in the MENA region, on Tuesday 9th October at Bury House.

The event will appeal to individuals keen to keep abreast of recent developments, as well as companies that either already have a presence in the region, or who may be considering entering the market for the first time.

The Arab Uprisings have inspired a significant amount of optimism that countries such as Libya, Tunisia and Egypt will enjoy increasing levels of democratisation and offer fresh opportunities for UK firms looking to do business in the region.

However, on-going instability in the form of regime change, regulatory uncertainty, protests, strikes and terrorist attacks continue to remain a risk to business. Recent incidents, such as the widespread riots following the release of a US-made anti-Islam film that ultimately led to the tragic death of the US Ambassador alongside other embassy staff in the Eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on 11 September 2012, have also served as painful reminders of how dynamic the situation on the ground remains in some countries.

As such, the MEA is hosting a two panel session that will cover how businesses can firstly, assess potential risks and secondly, take measures to mitigate threats to their physical assets and operations. In terms of risk assessment, topics that will be covered in this first panel will include due diligence, asset tracing and political risk. The second panel will include insights and analysis of trends in the insurance market for the MENA region, legal risks associated with doing business in the region and finally, crisis management and travel security.

We are delighted to announce the following panel of experts to help shed light on these issues, with panellists including Mounir Kabban (President of United Insurance Brokers), Thomas Wigley (Senior Associate at Trowers and Hamlins), Tony Prior (Director of Asset and Risk Appraisal at American Appraisal), Adrian Davidson (Commercial Intelligence and Investigations at Page Group, TBC), Toby Chinn (Associate Director at Control Risks, TBC) and Edward Posnett (Associate at KPMG Forensic).

Following the presentations, there will be a Q&A session followed by a networking reception.

Please click here for further details and registration form.

Source: http://www.iraq-businessnews.com/2012/09/20/business-risk-management-in-the-mena-region/

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In Jonathan Demme's new film, there's hope after Katrina

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - During the months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, pastor Joseph Campion in the city's Lower Ninth Ward helped hundreds of people wipe away tears. Parishioner Carolyn Parker wasn't one of them.

Parker, who was one of thousands who lost nearly everything in the disastrous post-Katrina flood, is the subject of a new documentary by Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme in a compelling portrait of how people recover from catastrophic events. It first airs Thursday on PBS.

"I never did that, I didn't cry, and Father Joe thought that was weird," Parker says during a reflective moment in the documentary "I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful."

Parker's indomitable spirit intrigued Demme from the moment he first spotted her, as he and co-producer Daniel Wolff drove along Jourdan Avenue in June 2006 and paused in front of her scarred and gutted double-shotgun house, their camera pointed toward her.

"Would you like to come in?" a smiling Parker asks, stepping toward them without hesitation in one of the film's first scenes.

Demme and Wolff not only went in to meet her, but returned repeatedly over the next five years to document her progress in recovering her life and restoring her badly flooded home.

Parker - her husband deceased and her children grown - had plenty of reason to fold her cards and leave the city after the post-Katrina flood submerged 80 percent of New Orleans and killed 1,500 people. Yet she was one of the first to return to her neighborhood and begin working on her house.

"That's a helluva woman right there," a neighbor says in the film, gesturing toward Parker's house in the tattered black neighborhood, which had many problems even before the flood.

"TENACITY, SPIRITUALITY AND GOOD HUMOR"

Demme, who won an Oscar for directing "The Silence of the Lambs" and has directed or produced more than 30 fiction films and documentaries, said Parker symbolized a wider story he wanted to tell about people trying to regain a sense of normalcy after a catastrophic event.

"I just wanted to find people who would share their experience, and film them and figure out later what to do," he told Reuters in an interview.

As time passed, he realized he wanted to show a perspective of local New Orleans people that contrasted with other scenes flashed worldwide of victims clinging to rooftops, abandoned in the heat on a highway overpass or screaming for help outside the city's convention center.

Parker escaped the flood by fleeing the city with her niece, but Demme said she survived everything that came later through her "tenacity, spirituality and good humor."

"I like to think that 'I'm Carolyn Parker' has the potential to shatter some of the preconceived notions folks might have had about the people of New Orleans," Demme said.

During the 86 minutes of the film, viewers come to know Parker's determination to live again in the bright green house where she raised three children and fight for the restoration of badly flooded St. David's Catholic Church, run by her pastor, Rev. Campion.

They hear about her childhood in segregated New Orleans, her developing a sense of activism during the Civil Rights era, and the business savvy that helped her become a sought-after chef.

Viewers see Parker lash out at then Mayor Ray Nagin during a 2006 meeting of a Katrina recovery commission, vowing the city would demolish her house "over my dead body."

Parker sets her jaw through daily struggles with an unresponsive government, looters and a contractor who takes her money and vanishes without fixing her house.

Throughout the story she repeatedly welcomes back Demme, Wolff and the film crew, never failing to offer a meal prepared in the kitchenette of the trailer set next to her house by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Wolff, who based his recently published book "The Fight for Home" on the struggles of Parker and others in post-Katrina New Orleans, said he was struck by Parker's openness and friendship.

"It's as if she's been expecting someone to come and tell her story," he said.

Such was the bond between film makers and subject, Demme cast Parker's daughter Kyrah in his 2008 film "Rachel Getting Married," after Kyrah left a scholarship at Syracuse University to return and help her mother post-Katrina.

Demme said he hoped that along with introducing people to Parker, the film will leave viewers with a sense of hope that huge hurdles can be overcome with spirit and determination.

"Carolyn Parker is an exceptionally inspirational figure," Demme said. "I feel like this film is part of the solution, because Carolyn sure is."

(Editing By Christine Kearney and Steve Orlofsky)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jonathan-demmes-film-theres-hope-katrina-194250150.html

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Romney struggles to steady campaign after secret videos

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney struggled on Tuesday to steady his reeling White House campaign after a secretly recorded video showed him dismissing President Barack Obama's supporters as victims who are too dependent on government.

The video from a closed-door fundraiser in Florida in May sparked a new wave of criticism of Romney's gaffe-plagued presidential campaign and raised fresh questions about his ability to come from behind in the polls and win in November.

In the video, the first part of which was published on Monday by the liberal Mother Jones magazine, Romney tells donors that 47 percent of Americans will back Obama no matter what and "my job is not to worry about those people."

He said they do not pay income taxes and are people "who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them."

The clip was shot at the luxurious Boca Raton, Florida, home of Marc Leder, a private equity executive. The camera appears to be hidden behind a marble-topped sideboard and shows Romney addressing at least half a dozen people who are sitting eating. Waiters, some wearing white gloves, serve the guests.

Romney also told the donors that Palestinians have no interest in pursuing a peace agreement with Israel and achieving a separate Palestinian state would not be possible.

"I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace anyway, for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel, and these thorny issues, and I say there's just no way," Romney said.

The video unleashed a fresh wave of criticism from some Republicans who were already frustrated by Romney's failure to capitalize politically on a struggling economy and a high 8.1 unemployment rate.

William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, called Romney's comments "stupid and arrogant." David Brooks, a conservative columnist in The New York Times, said Romney did not appear to understand American culture.

'DEPRESSINGLY INEPT'

"It's what self-satisfied millionaires say to each other. It reinforces every negative view people have about Romney," Brooks wrote. "He's running a depressingly inept presidential campaign."

Linda McMahon, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Connecticut, distanced herself from Romney's comments, saying she disagreed and "the vast majority of those who rely on government are not in that situation because they want to be."

The video capped a difficult two weeks for Romney, who has fallen slightly behind Obama in opinion polls, taken heavy criticism for a hasty attack on the president during assaults on U.S. diplomatic compounds in Egypt and Libya and faced damaging news reports about infighting in his campaign team.

It also reinforced criticism that the millionaire former head of the private equity firm Bain Capital is out of touch with average Americans, a theme the Obama campaign has hammered home all summer through advertisements.

Romney did not back away from the remarks at a Monday night news conference in California, where he said they were "not elegantly stated," or again on Tuesday in an interview with Fox News.

Romney told Fox that Obama believed in wealth redistribution, while "I think a society based upon a government-centered nation where government plays a larger and larger role, redistributes money - that's the wrong course for America."

Democrats leaped at the chance to criticize Romney for the comments and launched a new ad and fund-raising campaign focused on them. White House spokesman Jay Carney suggested Romney had been unpresidential.

"When you're president of the United States, you are president of all the people, not just the people who voted for you," Carney told reporters. "The president certainly does not think that men and women on Social Security are irresponsible, are victims, that students are irresponsible or are victims."

On the West Bank, Palestinians said Romney was wrong to accuse them of not seeking peace.

"No one stands to gain more from peace with Israel than Palestinians and no one stands to lose more in the absence of peace than Palestinians," chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told Reuters. "Only those who want to maintain the Israeli occupation will claim the Palestinians are not interested in peace."

The video controversy overshadowed an effort by Romney's campaign to offer more economic policy specifics and air new television ads to address rising worries from Republicans about the direction of his campaign.

'STILL FOCUSED ON ECONOMY'

But Romney adviser Kevin Madden said the firestorm over the video would not distract from the campaign's economic focus.

"I still think this is an election that's focused on the economy, it's focused on the direction of the country, and I think the voters right now who have yet to make up their mind are still viewing it through the lens of that," Madden said.

Some Republicans rallied to Romney's defense. Former White House Chief of Staff John Sununu, a Romney adviser, said the Obama campaign was trying to wage class warfare. Donald Trump urged Romney not to apologize and told NBC's "Today" show that "Republicans have to get tougher or they are going to lose this campaign."

The video comes seven weeks before the November 6 election and just more than two weeks before the first presidential debate on October 3, which may be Romney's best chance to change the direction of the White House race.

Romney regained some ground on Obama in a Reuters/Ipsos online poll on Tuesday, trailing by 4 percentage points, 47 percent to 43 percent. Romney had trailed by 5 points on Monday. The national Real Clear Politics average of polls gave Obama a 2.9-point lead over Romney.

Romney's comments about the 47 percent of Americans who do not pay taxes and are dependent on government were not a new theme for Republicans, and it was a largely accurate figure.

About 46 percent of U.S. households paid no federal income tax in 2011, according to the bipartisan Tax Policy Center, although almost two-thirds of those paid an employment tax to support the Social Security and Medicare programs.

In most cases, it is elderly and poor households that do not pay federal income tax, the center said. About half of those who pay no tax are allowed to do so because their incomes are too low.

(Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick in Washington, Steve Holland in Utah and Jihan Abdalla in Ramallah; Editing by Alistair Bell and Eric Walsh)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/video-shows-romney-saying-palestinians-dont-want-peace-154855251.html

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'Perks Of Being A Wallflower' Exclusive Clip: Meet Sam And Patrick

Social outcast Charlie makes new friends in this brand-new clip debuted during 'MTV First: The Perks of Being a Wallflower.'
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Donald Trump Says Mitt Romney Should 'Not Apologize' For Comments Captured In Secret Video

Donald Trump said Tuesday that Mitt Romney should "not apologize" for describing nearly half of all Americans as people "dependent on government" who are unable to take "personal responsibility for their lives."

The billionaire business magnate added that the presidential nominee had "probably [said] what he means.?

?We?ve seen enough apologizing already,? Trump said on NBC's "Today" show, the Washington Post notes.

?He cannot apologize. What he said is probably what he means and, he did say [it was] inartfully stated. The fact is he cannot apologize, he is going for those independents; he won?t get the votes of a lot of people he?s discussing, and if you?re not going to get the votes, let?s go on with it, but do not apologize," Trump added.

Trump's comments defending the Republican presidential nominee have come at a time when such support is proving scarce.

Earlier this year, Romney had told a private gathering of wealthy campaign donors that supporters of President Barack Obama will vote for the president ?no matter what.? His words -- now immortalized in a video that was surreptitiously recorded during a closed-door gathering of about 30 major donors earlier this year -- has triggered an onslaught of criticism from both liberals and conservatives.

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney said in one clip from the meeting. "All right -- there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent on government, who believe that, that they are victims, who believe that government has the responsibility to care for them. Who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing."

"[M]y job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives," Romney added.

Jim Messina, Obama's campaign manager, was quick to lambast Romney's comments, saying that it would be "hard to serve as president for all Americans when you?ve disdainfully written off half the nation."

"It's shocking that a candidate for president of the United States would go behind closed doors and declare to a group of wealthy donors that half the American people view themselves as 'victims,' entitled to handouts, and are unwilling to take ?personal responsibility? for their lives," Messina said in a statement previously obtained by The Huffington Post.

Conservative pundit Bill Kristol also denounced Romney's comments, calling them "arrogant and stupid." In a blog post for the Weekly Standard, Kristol joked that the former governor should consider stepping down, giving way to the "Ryan-Rubio ticket we deserve!"

NBC's Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida, said Tuesday that Romney was reeling from ?one of the worst weeks for any presidential candidate in a general election that any of us can remember.?

Scarborough, who also appeared on "Today," said that the presidential candidate "seems too insulated by wealth and by life experience," the Washington Post notes.

But Romney is not without vocal supporters.

Republicans like Donald Trump and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus have jumped to Romney's defense, the Houston Chronicle notes.

Lamenting that Republicans generally ?are not being tough enough," Trump said on the "Today" show that Romney should not apologize and should instead up the ante in his election campaign.

Romney has not apologized for his comments about the "47 percent." During a brief news conference Monday evening, Romney said his comments were "not elegantly stated" and had been "spoken off the cuff." Nonetheless, he did not disavow his comments and noted that Obama's approach is "attractive to people who are not paying taxes," the Associated Press reports.

h/t: Politico

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LG Optimus G: hands-on with Korea's latest powerhouse (video) (updated)

We're in Seoul for the launch of LG's latest flagship smartphone, the Optimus G, and we finally managed to spend a few minutes with a demo unit. This is a powerhouse -- the first handset built around Qualcomm's 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro. It features LTE, a 4.7-inch 1280x768 True HD IPS PLUS display, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of built-in storage, a 13-megapixel autofocus camera, a sealed 2100mAh battery, NFC and runs Ice Cream Sandwich.

We like the simple and elegant design, which is reminiscent of LG's Chocolate and Prada models -- it's thin (8.45mm / 0.33-inch) and reasonably light for its size (145g / 5.11oz). The front sports a glass surface with three capacitive buttons and the back showcases the company's Crystal Reflection process -- an attractive patterned glass-like finish that's a bit of a fingerprint magnet. Materials and build quality are excellent (better than the Galaxy S III) and the Optimus G feels pleasant in hand.

You'll find a volume rocker and micro-SIM slot on the left edge and the power / lock key on the right. There's a notification light next to the 1.3MP front-facing camera. A standard headphone jack sits on the top side, with the micro-USB / MHL connector on the bottom. The speaker and main camera are in back, pretty much where you'd expect them. While the display is definitely high quality, it's not mind blowing (the One X screen still looks better) -- we expected better viewing angles from LG's True HD IPS PLUS and Zerogap Touch technologies.

Sadly, we didn't spend much time using the software, but the Optimus G runs Android 4.0.4 with a skin similar to what we saw on the Optimus 4X HD and performance is definitely quick. We'll get more seat time with LG's flagship over the next few days, so stay tuned for more impressions. In the meantime, enjoy our gallery below and our hands-on video after the break.

Gallery: LG Optimus G hands-on

Update: We've added pictures of the white model and screenshots to the gallery.

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Teachers' Expectations Can Influence How Students Perform

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Teachers interact differently with students expected to succeed. But they can be trained to change those classroom behaviors.

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Teachers interact differently with students expected to succeed. But they can be trained to change those classroom behaviors.

In my Morning Edition story today, I look at expectations ? specifically, how teacher expectations can affect the performance of the children they teach.

The first psychologist to systematically study this was a Harvard professor named Robert Rosenthal, who in 1964, did a wonderful experiment at an elementary school south of San Francisco.

The idea was to figure out what would happen if teachers were told that certain kids in their class were destined to succeed, and so Rosenthal took a normal I.Q. test and dressed it up as a different test.

"It was a standardized I.Q. Test," he says, "Flanagan's Test of General Ability, but the cover we put on it, we had printed on every test booklet, said 'Harvard Test of Inflected Acquisition.'"

Rosenthal told the teachers that this very special test from Harvard had the very special ability to predict which kids were about to be very special ? that is, which kids were about to experience a dramatic growth in their I.Q.

After the kids took the test, he then chose from every class several children totally at random. There was nothing at all to distinguish these kids from the other kids, but he told their teachers that the test predicted the kids were on the verge of an intense intellectual bloom.

As he followed the children over the next two years, Rosenthal discovered that the teachers' expectations of these kids really did affect the students. "If teachers had been led to expect greater gains in I.Q., then increasingly, those kids gained more I.Q.," he says.

But just how do expectations influence I.Q.?

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As Rosenthal did more research, he found that expectations effect teachers' moment-to-moment interactions with the children they teach in a thousand almost invisible ways. Teachers give the students that they expect to succeed more time to answer questions, more specific feedback, and more approval: They consistently touch, nod and smile at those kids more.

Researcher Robert Pianta offered these suggestions for teachers who want to change their behavior toward problem students:

1. Watch how each student interacts. How do they prefer to engage? What do they seem to like to do? Observe so you can understand all they are capable of.
2. Listen. Try to understand what motivates them, what their goals are and how they view you, their classmates and the activities you assign them.
3. Engage. Talk with students about their individual interests. Don't offer advice or opinions ? just listen.
4. Experiment: Change how you react to challenging behaviors. Rather than responding quickly in the moment, take a breath. Realize that their behavior might just be a way of reaching out to you.
5. Meet: Each week, spend time with students outside of your role as "teacher." Let the students choose a game or other nonacademic activity they'd like to do with you. Your job is to NOT teach but watch, listen, and narrate what you see, focusing on students' interests and what they do well. This type of activity is really important for students with whom you often feel in conflict or who you avoid.
6. Reach out: Know what your students like to do outside of school. Make it a project for them to tell you about it using some medium in which they feel comfortable: music, video, writing, etc. Find both individual and group time for them to share this with you. Watch and listen to how skilled, motivated and interested they can be. Now think about school through their eyes.
7. Reflect: Think back on your own best and worst teachers, bosses or supervisors. List five words for each that describe how you felt in your interactions with them. How did the best and the worst make you feel? What specifically did they do or say that made you feel that way? Now think about how your students would describe you. Jot down how they might describe you and why. How do your expectations or beliefs shape how they look at you? Are there parallels in your beliefs and their responses to you?

"It's not magic, it's not mental telepathy," Rosenthal says. "It's very likely these thousands of different ways of treating people in small ways every day."

So since expectations can change the performance of kids, how do we get teachers to have the right expectations? Is it possible to change bad expectations? That was the question that brought me to the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, where I met Robert Pianta.

Pianta, dean of the Curry School, has studied teachers for years, and one of the first things he told me when we sat down together was that it is truly hard for teachers to control their expectations.

"It's really tough for anybody to police their own beliefs," he said. "But think about being in a classroom with 25 kids! The demands on their thinking are so great!"

Still, people have tried. The traditional way, Pianta says, has been to sit teachers down and try to change their expectations through talking to them.

"For the most part, we've tried to convince them that the beliefs they have are wrong," he says. "And we've done most of that convincing using information."

But Pianta has a different idea of how to go about changing teachers' expectations. He says it's not effective to try to change their thoughts; the key is to train teachers in an entirely new set of behaviors.

For years, Pianta and his colleagues at the Curry School have been collecting videotapes of teachers teaching. By analyzing these videos in minute ways, they've developed a good idea of which teaching behaviors are most effective. They can also see, Pianta tells me, how teacher expectations affect both their behaviors and classroom dynamics.

Pianta gives one very specific example: the belief that boys are disruptive and need to be managed.

"Say I'm a teacher and I ask a question in class, and a boy jumps up, sort of vociferously ... 'I know the answer! I know the answer! I know the answer!" Pianta says.

"If I believe boys are disruptive and my job is control the classroom, then I'm going to respond with, 'Johnny! You're out of line here! We need you to sit down right now.'"

This, Pianta says, will likely make the boy frustrated and emotionally disengaged. He will then be likely to escalate his behavior, which will simply confirm the teacher's beliefs about him, and the teacher and kid are stuck in an unproductive loop.

But if the teacher doesn't carry those beliefs into the classroom, then the teacher is unlikely to see that behavior as threatening.

Instead it's, "'Johnny, tell me more about what you think is going on ... But also, I want you to sit down quietly now as you tell that to me,'" Pianta says.

"Those two responses," he says, "are dictated almost entirely by two different interpretations of the same behavior that are driven by two different sets of beliefs."

To see if teachers' beliefs would be changed by giving them a new set of teaching behaviors, Pianta and his colleagues recently did a study.

They took a group of teachers, assessed their beliefs about children, then gave a portion of them a standard pedagogy course, which included information about appropriate beliefs and expectations. Another portion got intense behavioral training, which taught them a whole new set of skills based on those appropriate beliefs and expectations.

For this training, the teachers videotaped their classes over a period of months and worked with personal coaches who watched those videos, then gave them recommendations about different behaviors to try.

After that intensive training, Pianta and his colleagues analyzed the beliefs of the teachers again. What he found was that the beliefs of the trained teachers had shifted way more than the beliefs of teachers given a standard informational course.

This is why Pianta thinks that to change beliefs, the best thing to do is change behaviors.

"It's far more powerful to work from the outside in than the inside out if you want to change expectations," he says.

In other words, if you want to change a mind, simply talking to it might not be enough.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/09/17/161159263/teachers-expectations-can-influence-how-students-perform?ft=1&f=1007

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