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How Individual Learning Styles Transform Classrooms

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:48:48 +0000

When teachers adapt to individual learning styles, classrooms come alive. Tailored teaching methods foster engagement, build confidence, and create equitable learning environments. From hands-on activities to adaptive technology, discover how personalized strategies unlock student potential and transform education.

4 Ways to Invest in Education and Cut the Cost of Ignorance

Sat, 20 Jul 2024 22:23:59 +0000

Investing in education can greatly reduce the cost of ignorance. Discover 4 strategic ways to improve educational access and outcomes, from early childhood to professional certifications, and understand the long-term benefits of such investments.

Does Montessori Education Live up to Its Claims?

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:18:30 +0000

Born at the start of the 20th century, Montessori teaching methods have enjoyed increasing popularity in Europe over the past 20 years. But what does the science tell us about the effectiveness of Montessori education compared with other forms of teaching?

Students Learn at an Astonishing Regular Pace

Sun, 14 May 2023 18:16:25 +0000

Humans have an incredible capacity for learning, adapting, and developing expertise in various fields, including technology, music, and academic subjects such as reading, writing, math, science, and second languages.

Student Loan Debt Is an American Malignancy Born of Ronald Reagan

Sat, 27 Aug 2022 16:28:06 +0000

Forgiving student debt is not a slap at anybody; it's righting a moral wrong inflicted on millions by Reagan and his morbidly rich Republican buddies.

Becoming Passionate About Public Education Again

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:30:45 +0000

We are almost all lucky to have someone in our lives to encourage and motivate us and try to show us the way. But ultimately we have to live the choice.

Becoming Passionate About Public Education Again (Video)

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:30:45 +0000

We are almost all lucky to have someone in our lives to encourage and motivate us and try to show us the way. But ultimately we have to live the choice.

The problem with online learning? It doesn't teach people to think

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 08:54:05 +0000

The modern research university was designed to produce new knowledge and to pass that knowledge on to students. North American universities over the last 100 years have been exceptionally good at that task.

A Climate Change Curriculum To Empower The Climate Strike Generation

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:22:24 +0000

While in class, children shouldn’t feel their time is wasted. Primary school teachers have an ethical responsibility to bring climate change into their classrooms and they’re well placed for the task.

How Retaking The SAT Could Get More Students To College

Sun, 06 Sep 2020 12:01:05 +0000

Eliminating disparities in retake rates could close up to 10% of the income-based gap and up to 7% of the race-based gap in four-year college enrollment rates of high school graduates, findings of the working paper suggest.

Why Reopening Schools Requires Major Caution

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 14:01:06 +0000

A new analysis stresses the need for caution when when reopening America’s schools.

Here's Why Colleges Are Being Forced To Close Their Doors

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 07:19:29 +0000

Cincinnati Christian College is one of a growing number of colleges and universities – 21 private colleges since 2016 – forced to close their doors for financial reasons. The trend has affected the public sector, too. At least 33 public colleges – including community colleges – have consolidated within their state systems or merged with other institutions since 2016.

How Unschoolers Control Their Education With Self-directed Learning

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 07:38:43 +0000

The factory model of education is outdated, so what's next? - Conventional schooling was largely designed with an industrial-revolution mindset.

Why Quality Preschool Benefits Multiple Generations

Tue, 28 May 2019 10:12:04 +0000

Early childhood education programs can benefit life outcomes in ways that span generations, new research shows.

3 Vital Ways To Measure How Much A University Education Is Worth

Thu, 03 May 2018 21:41:08 +0000

The past several years have seen increased calls for colleges and universities to demonstrate their value to students, families and taxpayers.

How Disappearing Jobs Keep Kids Out Of College

Wed, 21 Jun 2017 17:28:00 +0000

After states suffer significant job losses, college attendance drops among the poorest students of the next generation, a new study suggests.

How UK Higher Education Is Being Turned Upside Down

Wed, 07 Jun 2017 08:35:18 +0000

There is little doubt that the challenging, turbulent and uncertain times faced by the UK’s university sector in 2016 are set to continue well into 2017

Why Do Teachers Quit?

Sat, 15 Apr 2017 20:54:27 +0000

Teachers don’t just leave their jobs because of low pay and retirement, new research shows. Their perceptions of a broken education system also contribute.

Performance Test Scores Cast Doubt On Viability Of School Voucher Programs

Wed, 08 Mar 2017 17:40:06 +0000

Proponents of “school choice” say that voucher programs—which allow parents to use state education funds to enroll their children in private schools

How To Get Quality Teachers In Disadvantaged Schools

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:18:00 +0000

Quality teaching is one of the largest influences on student learning. Yet, not all students have access to a great teacher.

Do We Need To Rethink How We Assess Learning In Schools?

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 08:28:34 +0000

There is a major flaw in the way we currently assess school students. By labelling them as either “good” or “poor” learners based on their overall grades at the end of each year, students have no clear idea whether they are making progress over extended periods of time.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Alongside Bernie Sanders Announce Free Tuition Plan

Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:01:56 +0000

'Our job is to encourage every person in this country to get all of the education they can, not to punish them for getting that education,' Sanders says in New York

There's No One-size-fits-all Solution For Great Teachers

Tue, 11 Oct 2016 05:16:00 +0000

Most of us know the difference a good teacher makes in the life of a child. Many global institutions working to improve access to education, such as the United Nations, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Education International agree that “teacher quality” is the critical element in whether or not an educational system succeeds.