May 21, 2018
By: Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Source: USA Today We’ve got a problem, and it has to do with memes. No, not those photos of cats, or the American Chopper guys, with amusing text superimposed. Real memes. Geneticist Richard Dawkins coined the term meme to describe self-replicating information that passes from one person’s mind to another. Genes are self-replicating information […]
May 21, 2018
By: Jill Barshay
Source: The Hechinger Report Two studies on how best to teach elementary schools students — one on the popular trend of “platooning” and one on the far less common practice of “looping” — at first would seem totally unrelated other than the fact that they both use silly words with double-o’s. “Platooning” […]
May 18, 2018
By: Rachel Lerman
Source: Disability Scoop Mike Luckett had been having trouble controlling his Xbox controller. His diminished finger dexterity after a spinal cord injury meant it was tough to be as quick as he wanted on the toggles and buttons on the game console’s controller. Luckett, a skilled gamer who has been playing pretty […]
May 16, 2018
By: Kai-Leé Berke
Source: The 74 Early in my career, I was a new pre-K teacher on a Marine Corps base. As my first round of parent conferences approached, I was nervous. Marines, in my experience, are punctual and organized. They want reasoning rooted in facts. I wanted my conferences to be the same, so I […]
May 15, 2018
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: Disability Scoop Under federal law, students with disabilities are supposed to attend class with their typically-developing peers as much as possible, but new research suggests that may not be happening. In what researchers say is the first study to look at national trends in school placement for students with intellectual disabilities over […]
May 15, 2018
By: Moriah Balingit
Source: The Washington Post Pencils, pens, crayons, construction paper, T-shirts, snacks and, sometimes, a pair of shoes: The costs add up for public school teachers who reach into their own pockets for classroom supplies, ensuring their students have the necessities of learning. Nearly all teachers are footing the bill for classroom supplies, […]
May 15, 2018
By: Meredith Nelson
Source: The 74 Astronauts reading books to kids from space — what’s more far-out than that? Story Time From Space merges literacy with STEM education in the coolest setting imaginable: the International Space Station. “What better role models to engage kids in science and to engage them in reading?” Patricia Tribe, former director of […]
May 15, 2018
By: Elissa Nadworny
Source: NPR A teenage brain is a fascinating, still-changing place. There’s a lot going on: social awareness, risk-taking, peer pressure; all are heightened during this period. Until relatively recently, it was thought that the brain was only actively developing during childhood, but in the last two decades, researchers have confirmed that the brain […]
May 15, 2018
By: Nikki Schafer
Source: EdSurge Have you ever been in a classroom when a principal walks in? Planned or random, evaluative or not, the atmosphere changes. The entrance of an administrator can create tension where there was none, or it can relieve stress—but that depends on the relationship between the administrator and teacher as well as […]
May 15, 2018
By: Swikar Patel, Guest Blogger
Source: Education Week The Washoe County school district in Nevada’s second largest city has been way ahead of most other districts in its approach to social-emotional learning, especially in measuring students’ SEL skills, which are part of its accountability system. My colleague, Evie Blad, chronicled the district’s efforts at building a thoughtful social-emotional learning […]