Long before the federal government intruded on the already wavering trust in science, the field of K-12 science education was in trouble. Proper teacher training, the deprofessionalization of ...
While high-quality literacy instruction has remained a cornerstone of education leaders’ priorities, this year, the science of reading has dominated classrooms and discussions around instructional ...
We know more today about how humans learn than ever before, so why do most classrooms still look like they did a century ago? Decades of research in cognitive science, neuroscience and educational ...
For many, the “science of reading” has become synonymous with phonics instruction. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have said the movement to align reading instruction with what the research ...
Learning is simple, right? It’s the process of moving information from out there — from a textbook, a company report, a musical score — to in here, inside our heads, and making that knowledge our own.
The ISLL houses two types of courses. The “iBC: integrated Biology and Chemistry” course series delivers interdisciplinary instruction for a broad population of life science majors. Interdisciplinary ...
The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? The desire to learn is partly a preference for novelty: we ...
Before adopting AI tools, it is important that schools think critically about whether these tools will further divorce students from how their brains are primed to learn. A teacher sits at a laptop ...