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Pet Benefits - Learn about some of the health benefits that come with owning a pet.

Pet Benefits - Learn about some of the health benefits that come with owning a pet.
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Pet Benefits

AZUZ: Shifting now from politics to pets. If you've been pushing your parents to get you a dog or cat, you might want to show them this next report. Pet owners do a lot for their animals. But according to some scientists, those furry friends are doing something good for us, too: improving our health! Judy Fortin dives into the details.

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JUDY FORTIN, CNN HEALTH REPOTER: People tend to dote on their pets. They groom them, even dress them, and spend a lot of time walking them.

JENNIFER ECKERSON, PET OWNER: We walk 5, 6, 7 days a week, 30 minutes every day at least.

FORTIN: Jennifer Eckerson's dog Rosco gets her up and out of bed almost every morning. Dr. Edward Creagan says owning a pet can be a prescription for good health.

DR. EDWARD CREAGAN, MAYO CLINIC ONCOLOGIST: Many times, I will put on a prescription pad: one cat, one dog, indefinite refills.

FORTIN: Creagan adds there is evidence to back the claims.

CREAGON: Studies have shown that individuals who have pets have lower blood pressure, they have a decrease in a stress hormone which is called cortisol, and they have a higher level in their blood stream of feel-good hormones.

FORTIN: Creagan says companionship is good for everyone.

ECKERSON: He doesn't know if you've had a bad day, he doesn't know, uh, he's just happy to see you no matter what.

FORTIN: Unconditional love with the added benefit of good health. Yet another reason to enjoy the company of man's, or in this case, woman's best friend.

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Dog-owners 'lead healthier lives'

Dog-owners 'lead healthier lives'

Children with pets 'more healthy'

Benefits Of Owning A Pet

Benefits of owning a pet

Benefits of owning a pet

Do School Uniforms Help Students Learn?

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our school uniforms actually beneficial share

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if you look good in plaid of cool

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I I'm Anthony this is the news it's back to school time

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who and here in the US more public schools than ever are adopting mandatory

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uniform policies for students

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double woohoo about 23 percent all schools in the country require them now

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school boards and educators hope that uniforms will stop violence and bullying

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increase focus on academic performance

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and even improve attendance but is any about true

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mostly series come from a program run in Long Beach Calif in 1995

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the district was full gang violence discipline problems low attendance

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and sexual assault and after putting everybody in uniforms for a year

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the overall crime rate in the school system dropped ninety percent assault

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was down by 80 percent vandalism by 70 percent

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suspensions were down by ninety percent and those are big numbers

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but that was almost twenty years ago a lot of studies have been done since then

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and none of them have shown the same results

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orb anywhere near them when longest-running studies is from the

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National Center for Educational statistics

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between 1988 and 2004 followed students from different school districts in

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background from the eighth-grade

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all the way through college to see just how they were affected by wearing a

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uniform

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first of there was no change in bullying and victimization

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at all results were the same for substance abuse and behavioral problems

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uniforms can actually cause their own kind of issues like a lot of schools in

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England

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are actually trying to back away from the traditional uniforms because

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teachers say

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they spend too much time arguing with kids over things like

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untucked shirts and it's distracting them from actually you now

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educating one area that actually has shown a slight improvement in uniform

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districts is attend its

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particularly in junior high students especially girls the theory there

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is that so much pressure is put on them about how they look and uniforms

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actually relieve them

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have some %uh day as the former second-hand slash

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bargain-basement nerd King of Rock Lake middle school I can relate

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but let's get down to what's important kids are in school to learn right

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so how r uniforms helping education they are not

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well okay they are a little in very specific case it's

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some schools showed slightly increase reading scores and 83 tenth graders

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but they had zero effect on math across the board and in some cases

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being lowered science and history scores so why we persist with the whole

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uniforms are beneficial thing well most school districts keep pointing to that

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Long Beach experiment from 1995 you know you think institutes and learning would

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do better research but

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then again my high school American history textbook only one up to World

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War two

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you know I actually always wanted to have school uniforms growing up they

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made me think I'd like

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wrong Dahl novels an animated Harry Potter

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you know kids on their own maybe with powers our destinies definitely

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with feelings I also hated picking out clothes in the morning

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1080 guys have to wear school uniforms are you wearing a school uniform right

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now

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how do you feel about them let me know down below and subscribe for more Dean

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news

Pros & Cons of Uniforms

School uniforms

Culture of studying in South Korea

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of course no news report about south korean education would be complete these

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days

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and average south koreans schoolboy ortho

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two helpers illustrate the issues

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greed hatred and ten years old and blinking his way into yet another tough

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day

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schoolchildren higgins on average

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wonderful hours sleep less everynight than their american counterparts

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and his another statistic tucci won

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everyday south korean children studied for almost three hours more than those

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in the u_s_ breakfast here is food for thought quite literally

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coutinho called maria

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the harder you work and he added you begin the hate and tells me

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for the president of the city you get into betty university means a better job

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south korea is a come

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three had sex with education a place where families

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jostling

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four every opportunity

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for their children

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perhaps it's because of that

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fusion ideal on the witness

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is eight pa sports soon status and wealth but whatever the reason

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this country's lasts for learning has caught the eye of

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rather influential individual

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during his visits to sol last november president obama says he asked his south

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korean counterpart to name this country's biggest educational challenge

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not crumbling schools or media budgets came the reply

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parents who attend demanding

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forehead chan today's first lesson is john mcwethy

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in measurements of school level acrobatics ability south korea sits near

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the top of the table back to has impressed president obama who has been

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publicly praising the extended school timetable and the results it produces

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yet they are but his south korea really such a good role model

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page and has just a few private lessons the week

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many schoolchildren though face pam after-school routine that drags on for

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class after class

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sometimes until midnight even the south korean government which welcomes

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president obama's warm words is a little taken aback

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why i parcel surprise there

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i'll print hearings comment

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one-step with always thought

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what has some problems

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in our education system

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and we have to

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take a while problem before you becomes

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trombones yes

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in fact

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the government now appears to believe that south korea's problem is

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much education

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this country's late night

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private cram schools are robbing children of their childhoods with their

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egos and with an overreliance on rote learning

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pupils are being turned into little more band exam costing machine

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and this competition quiescent memory

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not only works in who

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not mail-ew zero not creating mind

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what memory

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you have to memorize thousand thousand different things

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before getting into the

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tensions exactly

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so we like to change it

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that kind of education system

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meanwhile south korean families are voting with their feet

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every year thousands send their children overseas in search of a better education

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abt this combined immigration and education fair i met the kim family

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thinking about leaving career for the sake of their children

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world misery and education is one by mention all mister kim tells me foreign

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schools are far more creative an open-minded

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well

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back to alexandria chip away

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haitians family can't afford to escape or pay for the best private jewish in to

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compete he has a tough fight ahead of him

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there is much to be admired in this system the discipline of the appetite

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for learning but some would say that south korea also offers are warning

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if you can have too much of a good thing

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