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Friday, February 8th, 2013We all know that having good study habits is essential for academic success, but what are the effective study habits? A recent study described on the Science Daily website by John Dunlosky and other researchers from Kent State University indicates that some of the most commonly used techniques for improving study habits are much more [...]
Growth in Math Achievement due to Motivation and Study Habits
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013After studying math ability among 3,520 German fifth and tenth graders while he was at the University of Munich, Kou Murayama, postdoctoral researcher of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues were able to predict students’ long-term growth in mathematics achievement over a five-year period. Their work, described on the Science [...]
Incentives for Good Performance in AP Courses
Sunday, September 2nd, 2012A key component of getting more students prepared for college is having more students in Advanced Placement courses while they are in high school. Caralee Adams, blog writer for Education Week’s College Bound blog, describes in a recent post, “Program Aims to Improve AP Scores With Training and Incentives,” a new program to do just [...]
Winning the Homework Battle
Friday, August 17th, 2012The end of summer means the advent of a new school year, and all over the country, students have begun (or already started) their new academic pursuits. Many parents, however, dread the ongoing homework battles with their children. A recent article, “Ending the Homework Battle,” on the Science Daily website–summarizes the book, How to Handle [...]
One Promising Solution to the Dropout Problem
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012Kelsey Sheehy’s post, “Public-Private Ties Needed to Prevent High School Dropouts,” on U S News and World Reports High School Notes blog describes the need to prevent high school dropouts. Sheehy points out that the nearly 1 million students who drop out each year mean that about 7,000 students are dropping out daily. According to [...]
TED TV: Giving Every Classroom Something to Discuss
Friday, May 25th, 2012If you have never heard of TED TV, you are truly missing out. TED’s motto is “Ideas Worth Spreading,” and TED TV Works to spread these ideas to the public. These ideas are usually discussed by brilliant and sometimes famous individuals, and TED TV is a great service for both children and adults. The best [...]
Summer Math Ideas
Thursday, May 10th, 2012Children all across the country have either just completed the school year or have just a few more weeks before it ends. Of course, they are looking forward to long, lazy days that will require none of their typical school-day routine, and that includes none of the academic demands or mental rigor that their educators [...]
Young Women Leave the Workforce to Increase Education
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012Huffington Post reporter, Catherine Rampell, reports that part of the reason for November’s lower unemployment rate is the shrinking labor force. Economists realize that some of those work force dropouts are young people who are upgrading their skills. For the first time in 30 years, there are more young women in school than in the [...]
Free Online Courses at M.I.T. Expand to Offer Certification
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011Tamar Lewin, writer for The New York Times, penned an article about the planned expansion of online courses at one of America’s most elite universities. A leader in the era of online learning ten years ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will offer courses free of charge to anyone anywhere, and it will give official [...]
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 [...]
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