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More Urban Myths About Learning and Education: Challenging Eduquacks, Extraordinary Claims, and Alternative Facts examines common beliefs about education and learning that are not supported by scientific evidence before using research to reveal the truth about each topic. The book is the follow up to the first best seller Urban Myths about Learning and Education.
[…] in the new Best Evidence in Brief caught my eye because we also discussed this briefly in our second myth book: what is the effect of co-teaching? We concluded in our book that there is not much research on the […]
[…] written extensively about this topic in More Myths about Learning and Education, our second myth book, but a new working paper by Vladimir Kogan, Brandon Genetin, Joyce Chen and […]
[…] an often mentioned chapter in our second Urban Myths book: growth mindset. Many people are surprised to read that the impact of these interventions is often […]
[…] wrote an excellent post on Substack about Growth Mindset, much in line with what we wrote in our More Urban Myths about Learning and Education-book. But he also talks about the decline […]
[…] was sometime before the pandemic, shortly after the sequel to our first myth book was published in English. I had given a lecture in the US and was given a luxury business class ticket back home. A lady sat […]
[…] by tech executives talking about education that I’ve partly built a worldwide career from the Urban Myth books. So, I should almost be grateful to those tech gurus who proclaim the most stupid things with great […]
[…] music to general cognitive abilities or memory, something we discussed extensively in our second Urban Myths book. This new study confirms that caution is warranted. Music can influence mood and sometimes nudge […]
[…] we wrote More Urban Myths About Learning and Education, one of the chapters discussed whether male and female teachers are judged differently. We knew […]
[…] recognition. But in practice, this has long been a difficult question. We already touched on it in our second myth book. This month, a new preprint revisits the issue. It draws on a large American dataset that follows […]