Per Kornhall: The Great Swedish Child Experiment: A Failure
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Per Kornhall is a widely published Swedish scholar of education. He wrote this post for the blog. Sweden and Chile are the two nations that decided to introduce privatization into significant parts of their national school system. The results are alarming. Since the same free-market forces are at…
The Details Matter. That’s Why Proven Tutoring Programs Work Better than General Guidelines.
Originally posted on Robert Slavin's Blog:
When I was in first grade, my beloved teacher, Mrs. Adelson, introduced a new activity. She called it “phonics.” In “phonics,” we were given tiny pieces of paper with letters on them to paste onto a piece of paper, to make words. It was a nightmare. Being a…
Press release: New TIMSS 2019 findings reveal science and mathematics achievement is on the rise
Today the new TIMSS results were published, this is the press release on the whole study (most countries only talk about themselves…) International results find most countries are reaching minimum proficiency, gender equity eroded in mathematics at fourth grade, and teachers requiring more professional development for integrating technology into their teaching. The Global Education 2030… Read More Press release: New TIMSS 2019 findings reveal science and mathematics achievement is on the rise
THE COVID-19 ED CASE CHRONICLES, PART 4: The One I Never Wanted to Write
Originally posted on A Total Ed Case:
Last March, my pal Jasmine Lane and I agreed to use our blogs as spaces for discussing distance-teaching. We were as lost as everyone else, of course, but we thought the new evidence-free zone could use some observations, reflections, and recommendations from the school level — ideas to…
Coping With Remote Working During Covid-19: The Latest Research, Digested
Originally posted on Research Digest:
By?Emma Young Covid-19 has changed our working lives, perhaps for good. Home-working is now common, and many of us have been doing it for months. With changing rules and guidelines, some of us have even gone from home-working to socially distanced office-working, to working back at home again. So what…
Funny on Sunday: I’m planning for a sh*te Christmas
Making personality changes can sometimes promote success (and still, I feel a bit scared)
This is the kind of study that is interesting but can also lead to new myths in education. In short the press release states that this new study may hold the key to job success as it finds that young people who develop higher levels of conscientiousness and emotional stability during the transition to employment… Read More Making personality changes can sometimes promote success (and still, I feel a bit scared)
Effects of an SEL and literacy development program (Best Evidence in Brief)
There is a new Best Evidence in Brief and this time I picked this study from this biweekly newsletter: Harvard University’s Stephanie Jones and colleagues examined 2-year experimental impactsof a school-based intervention in social-emotional learning and literacy development, called the 4Rs, on children’s social-emotional, behavioral, and academic functioning. The 4Rs program, an intervention unique in its integration of… Read More Effects of an SEL and literacy development program (Best Evidence in Brief)
The Daniels on Research: a good reply to “Why I object to the term ‘Science of Reading'”
I replied myself in a very short way: As an educational scientist, I have to object. These are all fields of research. — Pedro De Bruyckere (@thebandb) November 26, 2020 My friends David Daniel and Daniel Willingham aka The Daniels made this more elaborated reply with extras.
