The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

And what we really want to know is whether knowledge building at school helps poorer children, who are less likely to be exposed to the world through travel, live performances, and other experiences that money can buy. The post PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

According to a paper published in the February 2025 issue of the Journal of Education Psychology, the 565 children who received the Core Knowledge lessons did better on tests of the topics and words that were taught, compared with 626 children who had learned reading as usual and werent exposed to these topics.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2021

Another thing we can all do is to not have a myopic view of success, meaning that we don’t just look at students reaching math and reading proficiency by the end of high school. That is a means to an end. Digital Promise President and CEO @BrizardJC sat down to share his thoughts: [link] pic.twitter.com/XEELxIqzrS.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A study published in 2023 in the journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology documented that second graders memorized more multiplication facts when they practiced using flashcards rather than by repeating their times tables aloud.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

In 2010, Taylor and Rohrer tested the technique with fourth graders learning math, and found that accuracy the day after the lesson was much higher for students who used interleaved practice (77 percent) than for those who used blocked practice (38 percent). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 35A, 39–49. Cepeda, N.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

All these ideas are established learning science. Related: Student teachers fail test about how kids learn, nonprofit finds One of the first principal syntheses of these findings with clear recommendations for the classroom was a 2007 federal report, “ Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

We’re excited to bring you more episodes this year, including more installments in our new series about growing public skepticism about higher education and the impact that is having on the choices students make after high school. If you have a suggestion for a topic or guest for 2024, please send that my way at jeff@edsurge.com.

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