Do we need to teach what comes naturally or would we be better to defy our need to control nature? Teach Kids to Daydream By Jessica Lahey | Originally Published at The Atlantic. October 16, 2013 Today’s children are exhausted, and not just because one in three [...]
There are many trends in education that come and go. What remains the same are students and how they learn. Clothing styles change and many interpret that as a change in children, but consider this, a child dressed in rags is no different than the one donned [...]
Photograph: Kindergarten gets as tough with multiple choice tests Kindergarteners are having a tough time with standardized math tests. Originally Published at New York Daily News. October 10, 2013 Goodbye Play-Doh, hello No. 2 pencils. Because of a tough new curriculum and teacher evaluations, 4- and 5-year-olds [...]
Photo Credit: aastock | Shutterstock.com By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at AlterNet. | October 3, 2013 It's time for some new thinking about how to address the persistent inequalities that plague our education system. As the evidence mounts discrediting much of the movement for [...]
By Scott Huebner | Originally Published at The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Volume 39, Issue 2 October 2010 With the increased emphasis on measuring school success primarily through academic outcomes, some might argue that school professionals cannot afford to pay much attention to students’ well-being, [...]
A mother and child are greeted by Jillian Maes, part of Stanford's team of researchers led by Professor Anne Fernald. | L.A. Cicero By Bjorn Carey | Originally Published at Stanford News. September 25, 2013 Research by Stanford psychologists reveals that 2-year-old children of lower-income families may [...]
Throughout the nation there is much debate; homework is good. No, it's bad. There is too much. Too little. It's better in moderation? And then there is the nagging question; does homework serve our children? Well, that depends. What is the means and what are the ends? [...]
Emotional Intelligence is EmpathyEducates' call. In our own lives, we have come to appreciate the lessons, which today would be characterized as Social-Emotional Learning. Having always felt as though we were the hare in the illustrious fable The Tortoise and the Hare we see the splendor of [...]
Human mental bandwidth is finite. You’ve probably experienced this before (though maybe not in those terms): When you’re lost in concentration trying to solve a problem like a broken computer, you’re more likely to neglect other tasks, things like remembering to take the dog for a walk, [...]
