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Get Smart Fast, vol. 24: The power of positive language
Progress or pessimism: Self-fulfilling prophecies? An analysis of publications in England leading up to the Industrial Revolution and a follow-up analysis looking at Spain yeild a striking insight: A surge in language associated with progress and the future appears to predate a surge of technological breakthroughs. Carrying that analysis into... READ MOREGet smart fast, vol. 23: Different measures
A new study from the University of Southern California looks at the gaps between what parents believe and what experts know about students’ academic progress since the Covid-19 pandemic. [W]hen...
READ MOREGet Smart Fast, vol. 22: Global malaise
U.S. students’ test scores slumped on international reading, math and science assessments, with historically dismal results in math. But American students’ declines on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)...
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Key Finding: More competition does not appear to improve results if schools are insulated from the impact of losing students, according to a new study that examined the introduction of...
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Key Finding #1: A Georgia preschool program improved students’ kindergarten readiness, but the academic benefits appeared to fade, and sometimes even reverse, by late elementary school. Why it matters: This...
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The most common method for identifying students with dyslexia involves tests that detect a “discrepancy” between a student’s IQ and their reading performance. It’s discredited, but still widely used, leaving...
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Educators can be trained, certified and spend years on the job without ever encountering what science says about how young people learn. Scientists are trying. The 2014 bestseller “Make It...
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The New Yoker‘s Emma Green digs into the problems with teacher licensure exams and the controversy surrounding the ways they disproportionately block educators of color from entering the profession. It’s...
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A new teacher survey published by EdChoice finds growing pessimism with the state of the profession. Less than one in five teachers are likely to promote the profession to others....
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On the rise of “snowplow parenting” in the English-speaking world: Over the previous decade, schools across the UK and the US had already been seeing a steady rise in parent...
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Proposed education R&D efforts often have a fatal flaw: They take the existing system for granted. There has to be a better way. Addressing the near-universal, post-COVID view that K–12...
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