Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
Has anyone noticed that much of the blame pundits shower on teachers and unions for blocking school reform and tolerating low-performing students is usually followed by perky pay-for-performance plans, revising teacher evaluations, and other solutions wholly dependent upon teachers embracing those very changes? Framing…
I found this study through a retweet by Dirk Van Damme of this thread (read further after the thread): School disruption=*huge* issue for education systems during+beyond COVID-19. Need to build resilience to enable continuous ed provision during shocks. We present new data documenting frequent school disruption. UN Global Fund @EduCannotWait estimates 222 million students affected… Read More Effective low-tech answers to school closures: sometimes a solution is just a phone call away…
This interesting study uses over 26000 students, showing that a simple intervention brief online intervention can have a positive impact. The intervention was designed to remedy students’ concerns about belonging through a reading-and-writing activity that emphasized how worries about fitting in, struggling in class, and feeling homesick during the college transition are common and improve… Read More New and huge experiment shows an effective way to make more college students stay in school by working on belonging
Originally posted on 3-Star learning experiences:
I recently received this email out of the blue from a math teacher in California. I think that it’s really important that others read what he comes up against trying to give teach math to his fourth-grade students so I asked the sender if I could put it –…
Originally posted on Youth Culture – Arteveldehogeschool:
Written by June Aramendi and Pablo Naranjo The period of youth can be very different for each person, and many variables come into play. In the diversity of countries, we find different cultures, which considerably affect the period of youth in its different branches. This affects the sense that…
This new study shows a correlation between the cognitive functioning of older adults and the number of graduated teachers in their high school in the 1960s. And the data suggests a long-lasting effect: attending a high school with a high number of teachers with graduate training was the clearest predictor of the impact of school… Read More Another argument to regard education as a long-term investment: the seemingly long-lasting effect of high quality schooling
This important meta-analysis and systematic review study by Sheri Madigan et al, published yesterday looked at longitudinal data from 12 countries to check if depression and anxiety symptoms increased in cohorts of children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is what the study teaches us: This systematic review and meta-analysis of 53… Read More How symptoms of depression increased amongst children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic (meta-analysis and review)
Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
I begin with the statement that, like teaching, there is no one best way of parenting. Good parenting comes in all sizes and colors. Saying that, however, does little to help those parents who, surrounded by?mind-altering noise hyping new technologies, face the persistent dilemma…
With the current demographic trends being what they are, this new Japanese study could be relevant to a lot of places: This study demonstrates that social and educational indicators strongly affect the population decline rate. This indicates that municipalities with more investment in education for children tend to experience slower rates of population decline. The… Read More What to do with education when the population of a city shrinks?
Basing something on a single study is never smart. But if two large and solid studies say something similar, then it is still advisable to remain cautious, but still look at everything seriously. In recent weeks, two similar studies have been published on the role of (background) knowledge in reading comprehension. This role would be… Read More Knowledge as a weapon against inequality
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