Study Skills and Learning Strategies
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012Memories of cramming for exams might surface when one reads about the results of a new study from the University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame Psychologist, Jessica Payne, and colleagues studied the two kinds of declarative memory (the ability to consciously remember facts and event). Declarative memory can be broken down into episodic memory (memory [...]
Math 101: Differentiated Instruction the New Norm?
Friday, May 4th, 2012It’s no secret that mathematics is one of the greatest educational challenges for many students in the United States. The most recent PISA figures, or, Program for International Student Assessment, showed that while American 15-year-olds scored “at the international average of industrialized nations in science and reading,” they were “below the international average in math.” [...]
Some College Students Struggle Because of Undetected Reading Difficulties
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012A recent article on the Science Daily website was particularly interesting because most of us know of a promising student who struggled with or dropped out of college. Many times, it was not the result of too much partying either. A University of Alberta researcher suggests that “it is likely that some of these students [...]
Developing Leaders of Tomorrow by Incorporating the Finland Education System
Friday, January 27th, 2012There is no doubt that America’s education system is in dire straits. Public schools are closing in record numbers, parents are struggling to make payments so that they can send their children to private schools, and regardless of the education they receive, thousands of kids walk out of America’s education system unprepared for the road [...]
A More Effective Way to Study
Friday, November 4th, 2011An article, “Make Study More Effective, the Easy Way,” on the Mind Hacks blog suggests that even though there is ample research that shows that college students can follow a better study model that is easier than what is typically done now by most college students. The major reason that students still study in less [...]
Cliffs Notes on Film
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011Huffington Post’s Education blog reports in “CliffsNotes Films: A Shorter, Faster Visual Approach to Classic Works” that the publisher of CliffsNotes has embarked on a new way to help students understand classic works. CliffsNotes Films can best be described as “edutainment” because these video versions present “classic works of fiction in humorous, irreverent, animated shorts [...]
Best Education Websites of 2011
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011Time Magazine has published The 50 Best Websites of 2011; however, five of them are in the Education category because of their usefulness. Consider the merits of each one in helping to reinforce and remediate skills for your child: Freerice – Freerice quizzes you in various subject areas—such as English vocabulary, geography, or chemistry–at various [...]
Why Teenage Boys Don’t Read
Friday, August 26th, 2011The New York Times recently published an article by author Robert Lipsyte, who, along with several other prominent male authors, reflected on his participation in a question-and-answer event at the 2007 American Library Association conference. Their task was to help demystify for the predominantly female audience why there is such a “disconnect” between boys and [...]
How We Speak to Children Helps Them with Number Sense
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011A new Science Daily article reports that researchers from Stanford University found that the way we speak to young children may help them to develop better number sense, the foundation for future math success and possible implications for helping children with dyscalculia, or learning disability in math. According to the researchers, changing the order of [...]
An Inexpensive Way to Improve Your Child’s Vocabulary
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011A parent asked me recently what she could purchase to help her child to improve her vocabulary. I told her that one of the easiest things that she could do is to implement a required reading time at least six days a week. I did this with my son, and we both read for at [...]
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