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Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White
Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White
Researchers explore how imaginative play affects children's memory

Researchers explore how imaginative play affects children's memory

Patrick Smith • August 20, 2015

A UA professor received a $200,000 grant from the Imagination Institute to study the correlation between imaginative play and cognitive development in children.Dr. Ansley Gilpin, assistant professor of...

Michelle Smart raises funds for secret meals

November 18, 2014

Friday afternoon in a local elementary school, a kindergarten student asked her teacher for an apple. The teacher asked why she needed food so soon after lunch, but the child seemed hesitant to answer....

The time for raising children by using corporal punishment has passed

Mark Hammontree • September 14, 2014

Walk into the average sixth grade classroom in Alabama, ask for a show of hands of who has been spanked by their parents at least once, and chances are a good deal of hands will come up. While the practice...

Immigrant children coming to U.S. due to violence, not lax security

Matthew Bailey • July 16, 2014

Despite the conspiracy theories put forth by many who hate President Obama, the immigrant children that are arriving in record numbers to the United States border are not doing it at the administration’s...

Political conversation becoming increasingly personal

SoRelle Wyckoff • August 21, 2012

As children, we are taught to respect others’ personal space and to expect the same treatment for ourselves. A physical radius was invisibly drawn around us, and for many, this translated into manners...