A new longitudinal study looked at how youths' self-concepts are linked to their actual academic achievement in math and reading from middle childhood to adolescence. The study found that students' ...

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During the elementary-school years, a child's world expands dramatically to include not only their family and playmates but a widening circle of schoolmates and adults. In this enlarged environment, ...