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Bridging Neuroscience and Education: A Strategy for Educating Educators
May 17, 2013Neuroscience – 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
Flipping the Classroom to Focus on Students
May 16, 2013Flipping the classroom focuses on students’ learning needs rather than the curriculum pacing to drive instruction. Continue reading
Rigor and Readiness: Measuring the Impact of Algebra II
May 16, 2013New research to add to the discussion about the role of advanced mathematics courses — in particular, Algebra II — on college and career success Continue reading
Fostering Equal Opportunity on the Path to College
May 13, 2013Desegregation is nothing new to higher education, but socioeconomic integration has been historically overlooked. Continue reading
Collaboration: A Prerequisite for Putting Research into Practice
May 10, 2013At 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
Twitter Event: Effecting Change Through Creative Data Use #datapreso
May 9, 2013Join us for a special event via Twitter called, “Effecting Change Through Creative Data Use,” highlighting the successes of the Apps4VA project! Continue reading
When will the Sayer Movement become the Maker Movement?
May 9, 2013Dale 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
Some Unsolicited Advice for Zynga
May 8, 2013There 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
When Outcomes Collide
May 7, 2013I 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
Flipped Lessons Learned: Take Note!
May 1, 2013Greg Green on his unique opportunity to work with 30 flipped classroom teachers in Michigan. Continue reading