Study: Including videos in college teaching may improve student learningby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 1d
As higher education institutions worldwide transition to new methods of instruction, including the use of more pre-recorded videos, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many observers are concerned that student learning is suffering as a result. However, a new comprehensive review of research offers some positive news for college students. The authors found that, in many cases, replacing teachin
Preschoolers with higher cardiorespiratory fitness do better on cognitive testsby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 1d
Researchers report that 4-6-year-old children who walk further than their peers during a timed test - a method used to estimate cardiorespiratory health - also do better on cognitive tests and other measures of brain function. Published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, the study suggests that the link between cardiorespiratory fitness and cognitive health is evident even earlier in life than
Highest rates of bullying occur between friends and friends-of-friendsby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 1d
Full paper here: https:/ / www. journals. uchicago. edu/ doi/ full/ 10. 1086/ 712972 Teens who bully, harass, or otherwise victimize their peers are not always lashing out in reaction to psychological problems or unhealthy home environments, but are often using aggression strategically to climb their school's social hierarchy, a University of California, Davis, study suggests. These findings poin
The National Summer School Initiative implementation studyby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 1d
The National Summer School Initiative (NSSI) was a five-week national, largely synchronous, virtual summer program launched in the summer of 2020 with 11,769 rising 4th through 9th grade participants from schools serving large concentrations of low-income students of color. Program leaders recruited “mentor teachers” they considered to be highly talented from across the country to provide profess
Internet access spending in public schools increases test scores, but also disciplinary problemsby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Research News SHARE PRINT E-MAIL IMAGE: A $600,000 INCREASE IN ANNUAL INTERNET ACCESS SPENDING PRODUCES A FINANCIAL GAIN OF APPROXIMATELY $820,000 TO $1.8 MILLION, ALONGSIDE LOSSES FROM DISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS TOTALING $25,800 TO $53,440, ACCORDING TO NEW... view more CREDIT: OLIVIA ROTOLO/UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME From 2015 to 2019, public school districts in the United Sta
Policy reforms designed to reduce exclusionary discipline and increase racial equity in school discipline practices has opposite effectby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d
Oregon has enacted policy reforms to reduce exclusionary discipline and increase racial equity in school discipline practices. One such reform passed in 2015 limits the use of exclusionary discipline (i.e., removing students from classroom instruction through suspension and expulsion) for students in grades K–5 for infractions that do not pose a direct threat to the safety of others. This study e
Strange emphasis on remote learning in new reportby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d
The RAND Corporation recently released a report based on a national survey of school district superintendents and charter management organization (CMO) directors (or their designees) about their experiences navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. David Garcia of Arizona State University reviewed Remote Learning Is Here to Stay and found some issues with one of its two recommendations. Professor Garcia
Report ignores a plethora of literature on the deleterious impact of test-based accountabilityby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 11d
A recent report from the Hoover Institution’s Education Success Initiative argues that state and federal officials should retain what it calls “results-based” accountability systems that use standardized assessments of students followed by consequences for not meeting performance goals. But it does n
