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“#Study shows positive impact of retaking the SAT on college enrollment outcomes” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Sitting for the SAT college admissions test a second time leads to higher scores, a boon to high school students applying to four-year college programs according to research this year out of Georgia State University, Brandeis University and the…
“#Ethnic diversity on campus helps break down stereotypes” Credit: CC0 Public Domain When students attend ethnically diverse colleges, their enriched experience transforms how they view different ethnic groups and better prepares them for life and work in 21st century America. This finding is based on the responses of nearly 4,000 students from 28 U.S. colleges…
“#We asked kids who their favourite teacher is, and why. Here’s what they said” Most of us can remember a favorite teacher. Some of us can also remember a teacher we didn’t get on with or with whom we always seemed to get in trouble. Relationships between students and teachers at school are important. They…
“#Extra support needed for English-second-language students in junior high, study shows” Credit: CC0 Public Domain A sizable proportion of junior high school students whose first language is not English are falling behind in oral language and literacy skills, according to a recent U of A linguistics study. After testing 227 Edmonton and Vancouver English language…
“#Short exercise breaks during class improve concentration for senior students” Credit: Shutterstock Primary school teachers often provide students with short physical activity breaks to energize kids and minimize classroom disruptions. Our study, published in the journal Educational Psychology Review, found we should be doing this for senior students too. We found a short activity break…
“#UNICEF: A third of world’s children missed remote learning” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The U.N. children’s agency says at least a third of children couldn’t access remote learning when the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, creating “a global education emergency.” At the height of lockdowns meant to curb the pandemic, nearly 1.5 billion children were affected…
“#COVID-19 and schools reopening: Now is the time to embrace outdoor education” Policymakers could seize this time to support schools in choosing to take students outside. Credit: Shutterstock Whether and how schools will reopen in September given COVID-19 has been discussed in news and social media throughout the summer. Smaller class sizes, alternating attendance patterns,…
“#How students learn from their mistakes” An fMRI-based study of error-monitoring shows that students who are focused on monitoring their own learning process, rather than on getting right answers, learn better over time. The process by which people learn to recognize errors and correct themselves is called error-monitoring. How children engage in the error-monitoring process…
“#Children’s fiction on terror is leading a youth ‘write-back’ against post-9/11 paranoia” A wave of children’s fiction which tackles subjects such as suicide terrorism, militant jihadism and counter-terror violence is helping young readers to rethink and resist extremism and Islamophobia, new research suggests. The study, by Dr. Blanka Grzegorczyk at the University of Cambridge, charts…
“#US faces back-to-school laptop shortage” Tom Baumgarten, superintendent of the Morongo Unified School District, looks at a laptop with a cracked screen at Twentynine Palms Junior High School, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, in Twentynine Palms, Calif. Baumgarten was set to order 5,000 Lenovo Chromebooks in July when his vendor called him off, saying Lenovos were…