The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A ‘Knowledge Revival’ A 2025 book by 10 education researchers in Europe and Australia, Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival , makes the case that students cannot learn the skills of comprehension and critical thinking unless they know a lot of stuff first. These ideas have revived interest in E.D.

Teaching 137

Teaching Charter School Social Studies Geography 137

ED Surge

MAY 22, 2024

And while CEO Barry Malkin is excited that today's artificial intelligence has the power to personalize education in ways we couldn't have imagined just a year and a half ago, it hasn't changed how Carnegie approaches AI: with humans in mind. Carnegie Learning was way ahead of its time with that early version of AI.

Tutoring 118

Tutoring EdTech Learning Science Middle School 118

Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2019

Angela Duckworth, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was teaching seventh grade math in New York City public schools when she noticed that her best students were not necessarily her smartest students. While it is clear that grit matters for success in school and in life, little is known about how best to foster grit in students.

Research 133

Research Learning Science Middle School Public School 133

Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

All of this creates space for students to find the approaches that are most effective for them and engage in active learning. Gotto Chair in Child Development and professor of psychology and human development at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. and Antonio M.

Heritage 133

Heritage Pedagogy Psychology Cultures 133

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Paul, who says she reads academic journal articles for fun, first encountered this argument when she came across a 1998 paper by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, who argued that the human mind extends into the world around it. So the more we can bring the body into learning, the better. But human brains are not like that.

Humanities 126

Humanities Cultures Research Middle School 126

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

This type of project reflects the best intentions of the Next Generation Science Standards , which encourage teachers to enable students to learn science by doing. A former middle school science teacher herself, Roberts said the standards create much-needed continuity across grades and science disciplines.

Education 108

Education K-12 Middle School High School 108

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

At the elementary school, the teams tinkered with the interactive digital stories children created using Scratch, a block-based programming language. At the middle school level, they tested the mobile apps students were piloting using App-Inventor and dropped in to one of the country’s first-ever middle school cybersecurity courses.

K-12 123

K-12 Middle School Elementary School Social Studies 123