“Those employers are really dang hard to find,” says Brittany Williams, chief partnerships officer at Edu-REACH — it stands for Rural Education Achievement for Community Hope — the nonprofit organization that now works to find apprenticeships for students in and...
“There’s a dwindling middle,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which is responsible for administering TIMSS in this country. Carr said that this group of students is being pulled down to the bottom – a...
Interviews with 10 of the survey respondents, however, indicated that views may be shifting. One admissions official at a public research university said they were “nudging” application readers away from a belief that “good” students take calculus. “So yes, we’ve...
Ki Sung: Traci Thomas, you read a lot of books, and in your podcast, you also talk about a book you’re reading with your twin boys – the minis as you call them. I don’t know if you’re done with...
Conversely, poor schools are much less likely to adopt an algebra-for-all policy for eighth graders. Nearly half of the wealthiest schools offered algebra to all of their eighth grade students, compared to about a third of the poorest schools. Slide...
We all hear about the importance of practicing gratitude, particularly around this time of year. If you celebrate Thanksgiving, you are likely to go around the table and say what you are grateful for before digging in to your mashed...
According to Cohen, these types of positive messages, when conveyed credibly, “can really undo a lot of the damage of these past experiences that these kids come in with.” When re-building trust with students is successful, expectations of those students...
When writing by hand, visual motor systems in the brain that support reading are more active, said Sophia Vinci-Booher, an assistant professor of educational neuroscience at Vanderbilt University. Vinci-Booher has also found that handwriting increases letter recognition more than typing...
“Although most kids learn to subitize up to three or four by the time they go to kindergarten, there are some kids who just don’t have the opportunities, and those children are in really big trouble in kindergarten,” said Art...
MorraLee Keller, of the college access nonprofit National College Attainment Network (NCAN), says this year’s form looks almost identical to the one from last year, but the user experience is significantly improved. “We really have to spread a very positive...
