April 3, 2015
The education culture wars often direct us toward one philosophical camp or another for solutions to the problems we encounter educating children. One such instance is the topic of how to best teach children mathematics. Read More…
April 2, 2015
In a large-scale study of over 1,000 children between 3 and 20 years old found family income was correlated with size of the brain which has been linked to the development of cognitive and academic skills. Read More…
April 2, 2015
WestEd published a research synthesis titled Math in Common: Classroom Observations Documenting Shifts in Instruction for District-wide Improvement. Read More…
February 27, 2015
Tony Biglan has published a new book, The Nurture Effect: How the science of Human Behavior Can Improve our Lives and Our World (New Harbinger) that makes a compelling argument that we now know enough about what is effective to significantly impact many social problems. Read More…
February 27, 2015
An op-ed piece by Daniel Willingham offers an interesting look at a bit of “conventional wisdom” that states, human beings are losing the ability to focus and concentrate due to constant stimulation from our electronic devices. Read More…
February 27, 2015
Balefire, the website that reviews educational apps, has a concise summary of the review criteria they employ to evaluate the impact of applications and why they are included in their evaluation process. Read More…
February 26, 2015
Each year the American Educational Research Association (AERA) publishes its 10 most-read articles. Seven of the studies hold special interest for the design of education systems. This year’s list includes these papers of special interest: Read More…
January 30, 2015
Balefire, a web site that reviews educational apps is transitioning to a free model so that interested teachers and parents can access all reviews free of charge. The free model will launch the first week of February. Read More…
January 15, 2015
An opinion piece by Robert Slavin, Director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University, examines issues of school turnaround. In this article Slavin offers a metaphor for three types of school readiness for reform, seeds, bricks, and sand. He describes seed schools as those Read More…
December 19, 2014
In this paper, Addison makes the argument that performance architecture is a framework that allows someone to assess all features of an organization so that the parts of the system can be aligned to support an innovation. Read More…