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The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it

The Hechinger Report

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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OPINION: It is time to pay attention to the science of learning

The Hechinger Report

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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How Belonging and Productive Struggle Can Motivate Students in Math

Digital Promise

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.

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