Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

At the recent Montessori Schools of Massachusetts conference, I shared how cutting-edge brain research aligns with and validates core Montessori principles. When humans feel stressed or disconnected, our brains shift away from the higher-order thinking needed for learning and into survival mode (Arnsten, 2015).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

I was curious what lessons we could take from previous research on summer school to guide us during this unprecedented summer. Researchers at RAND, a nonprofit research organization, had designed a sort of ideal summer school experience drawing upon expert opinions and academic theories. The results were disappointing.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2025

Previous research has shown that writing letters by hand, compared to typing them, helps young children learn their letters much better. A 2015 study found that adults were better able to recall words in a memory game when they wrote them down by hand first instead of typing them.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

In the 10 years since I chose a book called Make it Stick for a book study in the summer of 2015, I’ve been encouraging teachers to add more retrieval practice to their teaching. A big and growing body of research tells us that when we study with retrieval, we learn and remember things much better than we do by other review methods.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2020

Prominent members of the education research community are enthusiastically pushing for a dramatic increase in tutoring. And just as importantly, I wanted to know what researchers know about using novices to do this kind of work. One effort to sum up the high-quality research on tutoring was a Harvard study from 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

LIFO is not very good for kids,” said Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the American Institutes for Research, speaking to journalists about expected teacher layoffs at the 2024 annual meeting of the Education Writers Association in Las Vegas. It was a gut punch,” Gastón said. She had just received a great rating on her evaluation.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Researchers from the University of Tübingen have found that australopithecine hands exhibited the necessary muscle attachments for complex object manipulation. These attachment sites adapt and strengthen with frequent use, allowing researchers to infer habitual behaviors. "By However, the 2015 discovery of 3.3

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

That replicates what most of the studies have found, said Scott Peters, senior research scientist at educational assessment nonprofit NWEA. This whole idea is a very naive belief that if we just kind of make it for everybody, everyone will learn, Brookings education researcher Tom Loveless told the Twin Cities Pioneer Press in 2008.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2018

Image credit: whitealliesintraining.com/2015/10/05/big-idea-change-narrative/ In today's engaging, digitally empowered school setting, questions arise as to whether schools are best suited for educating their learners. The bottom line is that if you don't tell your story someone else will.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 27, 2019

When I wrote Uncommon Learning back in 2015, the premise was to set the stage as to how we could create schools that work for kids. I can’t wait to return as a job-embedded coach when the kids are present with the goal of further scaling research and evidence-based practices.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 16, 2025

By sequencing DNA from 50 individuals interred over centuries, researchers discovered 1 a striking social structure: women, not men, were at the heart of these communities. By comparing data from other Iron Age cemeteries across Britain, the researchers identified similar patterns of maternal inheritance in Yorkshire and beyond.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A new biocultural database, developed by researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), reveals the profound connections between Borneo’s rich plant life and the survival, traditions, and identity of its people. Arico, S., Báldi, A., Bartuska, A., Brondizio, E., Figueroa, V. Duraiappah, A., Fischer, M.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Colleges and universities, on average, are admitting a larger proportion of their applicants than they did 20 years ago, new research by the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute finds. The process helps the universities fill seats, but research shows it largely excludes lower-income families. It’s basic math.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

” How Horn Modification Was Achieved Using advanced analysis, the researchers determined that the horn deformations were not natural. Future Directions in Research The findings from Hierakonpolis open new avenues for studying the role of livestock in ancient societies. ” Related Research Morales, J., & Latini, R.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2024

Researchers are starting to document how AI bias manifests in unexpected ways. Inside the research and development arm of the giant testing organization ETS, which administers the SAT, a pair of investigators pitted man against machine in evaluating more than 13,000 essays written by students in grades 8 to 12. Garbage in, garbage out.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 8, 2025

​ Tracing the Origins To determine the provenance of these artifacts, researchers employed X-ray fluorescence (XRF) technology, analyzing 383 obsidian pieces from 96 sites across Alberta. Through advanced sourcing techniques, researchers continue to piece together the routes and relationships that defined ancient North America.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Researchers from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence at Kiel University have introduced a groundbreaking way 1 to apply modern philosophical concepts, like the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), to ancient societies, offering fresh perspectives on how and why these communities thrived. Philosophy of archaeology.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) have identified semi-domesticated maize specimens from caves in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley, revealing a unique chapter in the crop’s evolutionary history. American Antiquity, 55 (2), 324–337.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This sobering anecdote comes from a research project led by Kelly Slay, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, who has been conducting in-depth interviews with admissions officers in 2022 to understand how the elimination of SAT and ACT testing requirements has been playing out inside colleges and universities.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 26, 2025

Yet new research led by Jacqueline Peña and her colleagues at the University of Georgia has revealed that wild strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae —the same species that leavens bread and ferments wine—carry silent records of ancient human journeys. (A) 2009 ; Marsit et al. 2017 ; Nielsen et al. Yet forest-dwelling S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Oft-cited research from a high quality preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan concluded that 58 low-income kids who attended in the 1960s were more likely to hold a job, earn more money, own a home and less likely to commit a crime than similar kids who didn’t go to preschool. Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Researchers have studied what has happened at public universities in Texas and California, which have banned the use of affirmative action since 1996. Researchers say that tiny increase was probably due to demographic changes in the state and not because the plan was working well. Two states could provide valuable information.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2025

The research into the benefits or harms of academic tracking or streaming show mixed results. In 2016, a group of researchers compiled all the best U.S-based based research on ability grouping and acceleration at that point, going back for a century. Related: Racial gaps in math have grown. Could detracking help?

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 12, 2025

“What we’re seeing here is early evidence of cognitive flexibility,” said a researcher familiar with the findings. “What matters isn’t just that they made tools,” one researcher commented, “but that they chose an unconventional material to do so. ” Beyond Survival: Teaching and Learning?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Choose as many as you like.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 6, 2025

New research published in Antiquity 1 by geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri and his team reveals a massive, intricate irrigation system in the Eridu region—one that predates the first millennium BCE. A Challenge for Future Research One of the most pressing questions raised by this discovery is when exactly each canal was in use.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Led by a team of international researchers, this large-scale genomic analysis, recently published in Nature 1 , analyzed nearly 6,000 Greenlandic individuals—an astonishing 14% of the adult population. Their findings not only rewrite the history of Inuit migration but also challenge the Eurocentric lens of modern genetics and medicine.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By comparing the DNA of these ancient canids to that of modern dogs, wolves, and older Siberian wolf populations, the researchers uncovered genetic relationships. Alternatively, some wild canids may have been kept as pets and others hunted,” the researchers noted. Journal : Current Biology , 2015. lupus/familiaris ).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

” In 2015, Maxis completed a bachelors degree in math through the Bard Prison Initiative, an accredited college-in-prison program. The organization was started in 2015 by Christopher Havens, who was then incarcerated at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. He knew that he needed to have a plan for when he got out.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 11, 2022

That’s what New York University researcher Richard Welsh tried to glean by looking back at how discipline practices have evolved throughout the pandemic. From 2015 through the 2020-21 school year, the rate of office disciplinary referrals (ODRs) issued to Black students held steady at around 80 percent.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Just this month, a group of researchers published their findings on the impact of district capital projects and used test scores to draw conclusions. Meanwhile, politicians, pundits , and researchers argue that schools and students would be worse off without them. And here we are…back at the end of the first paragraph.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 20, 2020

Research indicates that using media, beyond text comments, positively impacts the students’ perception of the quality of feedback. Students also reported being more motivated by audio and video feedback because it was clear and personalized (Voelkel & Mello, 2014; Henderson & Phillips, 2015). Voelkel, S., & Mello, L.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Hattie’s and Timperley’s (2007) research on feedback identified it as having a significant impact on student achievement and learning. Despite a growing body of research on the power of feedback, it is easy to neglect in classrooms because teachers feel pressure to cover content. and Timperley, H. The power of feedback.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Her research interests included the areas of health policy issues, program performance evaluation, Black women, and related political issues. His African Realism: International Relations Theory and Africa’s Wars in the Postcolonial Era (2015) was a Choice “Outstanding Academic Title.” He received his Ph.D.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 4, 2025

In a new study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1 , researchers from institutions across Europe compiled the most comprehensive cross-cultural knot database to date. Using a mathematical approach known as Gauss coding, the researchers created a digital fingerprint for each knot. Related Research Tehrani, J.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

The nation’s highest spending school districts tend to be wealthy white suburbs whose education spending increased at a faster rate than other school districts between 2000 and 2015, according to a May 2020 study by a Penn State researcher.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2021

Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, pictured above, was one of 99 colleges that adopted test-optional admissions between 2005-6 and 2015-16. But researchers are finding that the test-optional policy isn’t substantially raising the share of low-income students or students of color at colleges that have tried it.

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