Not enough Milk Duds or popcorn in the world to watch this one. Good teachers make a difference. There’s now more proof of the benefits according to a new study of 2.5 million elementary and middle school students tracked over 20 years. Economists at Harvard and Columbia found evidence that having an effective teacher, a single good teacher, in grades 4 to 8 can …
Now that all three of my children are back to school, my youngest now nearly all day after a slow three-week progression…weep, cheer, weep…I’m going back to school myself, relax mom, just here. Lecture for Today: How Kids Learn. Benedict Carey summed up the current research on study habits in …
The kiddies back in school, sit back, sip on something and take a quick look at some new discoveries from the past week…that yes, I couldn’t get around to until this week – until the house quieted down again, I breathed a sigh of relief and thought, THANK GOD IT’s MONDAY!!!. This …
Seems the study I mentionned in the below post about math learning involved college students – and did indeed find that these kids had difficulty applying concepts learned via concrete versus abstract examples. I’m not sure if younger children would show the same pattern but I’m looking into related research….and …
Don’t believe everything you read in the Wall Street Journal, even if it comes out of Harvard… Here’s an example of statistics gone wrong in a commentary featured in the November 7th Wall Street Journal. The authors, working at Harvard’s Program on Educational Policy and Governance took a look at …