Study: Kids’ Math Anxiety Reduced When Learning With Tutors
Math can be as scary as spiders and snakes, at least in the brain of an 8-year-old child. And that early anxiety about dealing with numbers can put a child at a significant disadvantage, not only in...
View ArticleUnderstanding the History and Pervasive Myths Around Autism
In 1938, an Austrian pediatrician named Hans Asperger gave the first public talk on autism in history. Asperger was speaking to an audience of Nazis, and he feared that his patients — children who fell...
View ArticleVideo Demos: How Minorities in Tech Can Inspire Students to Follow
Marcus Robinson comes off as an earnest, competent guy in his explainer videos. He looks like he has a good sense of humor — he might even be a bit of a joker with his friends — but he can also clearly...
View Article‘Lesson Study’ Technique: What Teachers Can Learn From One Another
Jasmine Bankhead needed to figure out a way to improve teaching at her school. It was 2013. She was the new principal of the O’Keeffe School of Excellence, an elementary school on Chicago’s South Side...
View ArticleWhere Do English Language Learners Fit Into the Ed Tech Revolution?
English Language Learners are a growing yet underserved segment of the U.S. student population, and teaching these diverse learners presents teachers with a host of unique and very complex challenges....
View ArticleHow to Incubate Creativity in School Through Making and Discovery
Sixth-grade students at Lighthouse Community Charter in Oakland, California, eagerly pull laptops off a cart and settle down with a partner to experiment with Turtle Art, a program meant to introduce...
View ArticleWhat Would Accountability Without Standardized Tests Look Like?
Standardized tests were introduced during President Lyndon Johnson’s administration to prove the extra funds going to low-income schools were working. As they became more common they helped shine a...
View Article10 Tips For Launching An Inquiry-Based Classroom
Transforming teaching practices is a long, slow road. But increasingly schools and teachers experiencing success are sharing their ideas online and in-person. Science Leadership Academy opened as a...
View ArticleWhat Kinds of Homework Seem to be Most Effective?
If you made it past the headline, you’re likely a student, concerned parent, teacher or, like me, a nerd nostalgist who enjoys basking in the distant glow of Homework Triumphs Past (second-grade report...
View ArticleHow Awareness of Cultural Differences Can Help Underachieving Students
Excerpted from Memory at Work in the Classroom: Strategies to Help Underachieving Students, by Francis Bailey and Ken Pransky. Bailey is the Director of the Teaching English as a Second Language...
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