Most educational policy elites, whether in government or in the nonprofit sector, mean well.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlFree Technology for Teachers: 5 Tips to Improve Critical Thinking Skills - A TED-Ed Lesson - 0 views
Free Technology for Teachers: Tools to Help Students Improve Their Writing - 0 views
Michael Haberman: Why School Culture Matters, and How to Improve It - 1 views
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From elementary school to high school, school choice is an integral part of U.S. urban education today. In New York City, eighth graders just learned if they'd been accepted into one of their top high school selections, and in the coming weeks, families will learn where their children will be attending kindergarten in the fall.
What poor children need in school - 0 views
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Yet policymakers tend to come from a relatively privileged slice of American society. And they tend to possess a set of beliefs and assumptions distinct to their background.
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But in most cases, the fact that decision-makers inhabit a different world from students—and particularly, poor students—is a matter of great significance.
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9 Defining Ways Educators Can Tug Education Back in the Right Direction @coolcatteacher - 1 views
Homework: An unnecessary evil? … Surprising findings from new research - The Washington Post - 0 views
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A brand-new study on the academic effects of homework offers not only some intriguing results but also a lesson on how to read a study — and a reminder of the importance of doing just that: reading studies (carefully) rather than relying on summaries by journalists or even by the researchers themselves.
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First, no research has ever found a benefit to assigning homework (of any kind or in any amount) in elementary school. In fact, there isn’t even a positive correlation between, on the one hand, having younger children do some homework (vs. none), or more (vs. less), and, on the other hand, any measure of achievement. If we’re making 12-year-olds, much less five-year-olds, do homework, it’s either because we’re misinformed about what the evidence says or because we think kids ought to have to do homework despite what the evidence says.
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Second, even at the high school level, the research supporting homework hasn’t been particularly persuasive.
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Interactive teaching methods double learning in undergraduate physics class - 0 views
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Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class,
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students in the interactive class were nearly twice as engaged as their counterparts in the traditional class
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scored nearly twice as well in a test designed to determine their grasp of complex physics concepts (average score 74 per cent vs. 41 per cent, with random guessing producing a score of 23 per cent). Attendance in the interactive class also increased by 20 per cent during the experiment.
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Ellen Galinsky: Ask the Students: Their Wise Wishes for Improving Education - 0 views
BBC - Future - Psychology: A simple trick to improve your memory - 0 views
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One of the interesting things about the mind is that even though we all have one, we don't have perfect insight into how to get the best from it.
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Karpicke and Roediger asked students to prepare for a test in various ways, and compared their success
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On the final exam differences between the groups were dramatic. While dropping items from study didn’t have much of an effect, the people who dropped items from testing performed relatively poorly: they could only remember about 35% of the word pairs, compared to 80% for people who kept testing items after they had learnt them.
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How Your Nonverbals Impact Your Teaching | Cult of Pedagogy - 0 views
Study examines Wallace Foundation's Wallace principal pipeline project - 0 views
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I would think it would take years for a new principal to replace teachers and make curriculum changes that would eventually trickle down to students and grow over time. More research is needed to understand what things new principals are doing immediately that boost learning throughout the building.
2017 Education Research Highlights | Edutopia - 0 views
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Practice Testing, Planning Top List of Effective Studying Strategies
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New Teachers—and Their Students—Benefit From Mentors
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Clickers Boost Fact Retention, but Can Impede Deeper Learning
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