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Bridging Neuroscience and Education: A Strategy for Educating Educators

By Sarah J Larson on

Neuroscience – the study of the brain and the nervous system – and its efficacy for helping educators learn more about how to help students of all types succeed, is an area of increasing interest to us at Pearson’s Research … Continue reading

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Flipping the Classroom to Focus on Students

By Kathy McKnight on

Flipping the classroom focuses on students’ learning needs rather than the curriculum pacing to drive instruction. Continue reading

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Rigor and Readiness: Measuring the Impact of Algebra II

By Katie McClarty on

New research to add to the discussion about the role of advanced mathematics courses — in particular, Algebra II — on college and career success Continue reading

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Fostering Equal Opportunity on the Path to College

By Matthew Gaertner on

Desegregation is nothing new to higher education, but socioeconomic integration has been historically overlooked. Continue reading

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Collaboration: A Prerequisite for Putting Research into Practice

By Ashley Cromwell on

At this year’s American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, I heard a lot of talk about “putting research into practice.” In an ideal world, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners would work together harmoniously to produce positive outcomes for kids. Researchers would … Continue reading

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Twitter Event: Effecting Change Through Creative Data Use #datapreso

By Sarah J Larson on

Join us for a special event via Twitter called, “Effecting Change Through Creative Data Use,” highlighting the successes of the Apps4VA project! Continue reading

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When will the Sayer Movement become the Maker Movement?

By Rob Kadel on

Dale Dougherty, co-founder of O’Reilly Media, coined the term “Maker Movement” back in 2005. It’s also been referred to as “maker culture” and its enthusiasts are known as “makers.” But in short, it’s simply a term for Do It Yourself … Continue reading

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Some Unsolicited Advice for Zynga

By Kristen DiCerbo on

There was big news out of the New Schools Venture Fund annual meeting last week that Zynga.org is partnering with the Fund to launch an “accelerator” focused on creating and distributing educational games. Given that I’ve been doing work in … Continue reading

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When Outcomes Collide

By Jeff Borden on

I want to provide a synthesized conversation for you here.  It just happened a few hours ago and I will be combining / paraphrasing some text.  But I want to provide the gist of it before first.  The conversation was … Continue reading

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Flipped Lessons Learned: Take Note!

By Greg Green on

Greg Green on his unique opportunity to work with 30 flipped classroom teachers in Michigan. Continue reading

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