One of the main advantages of manuscript is that students encounter these letters in books. “Studies show that spending two years learning manuscript writing strengthens letter recognition and helps make writing automatic,” White explained. On the other hand, cursive can...
For child care programs, the strength and frequency of these myriad interactions between a caregiver and a child are central to quality. Babies need stimulation from a caregiver who talks frequently and responds to their sounds and cues. Older children,...
“You know weeds are going to grow in a garden, so you just need to be aware of that if you want to have a good garden, and regularly scan for weeds and pull them out where they exist,” he...
So, what would it be like to go back to those days? No social media scrolling, no mobile-app shopping, no streaming shows or media on your phone? The researchers measured three different outcomes of well-being, mood and attention at the...
Officials and teachers with three large districts in Nebraska declined to speak about Black history education this year, claiming it was either a sticky subject or citing the “evolving national dialogue around educational observances,” according to one school district. Tim...
However, these same children, the majority of whom were 14 or 15 years old, struggled to solve much simpler school math problems, such as basic division. (After making the purchases, the undercover shoppers revealed their identities and asked the sellers...
Number sense is so innate to many adults that they may not remember being taught such skills. It is crucial to mastering more complex math skills like manipulating fractions and decimals, or solving equations with unknown variables, experts say. Research...
The cuts kept coming. Late Thursday, the Education Department announced that it had terminated an additional 10 research and technical assistance contracts with its regional education laboratories totaling $336 million. In this case, the administration said it was targeting ideologically...
In the Monday meeting, employees were told that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a unit within the Trump administration run by Elon Musk, plans to cancel most of IES’ contracts. Two employees shared screenshots of emails summoning them to...
“It’s not just that students are failing to catch up, but that students are continuing to fall behind,” says one of the report’s authors, Harvard’s Tom Kane. That reading trend line raises important questions about how quickly states can expect...
