The Value of Professional Certifications for Secondary Education Students
Professional certifications for students are important for workforce readiness.
Lemov: Students Learn More From Tough Teachers — but Simply Raising Expectations and Not Giving Easy A’s Isn’t Enough
Is it possible that better teachers grade harder and get better results because of their teaching, not their grading? If so, just telling weak teachers to grade harder might not be enough to achieve positive results for students
Making Is Great Because It’s Chaotic. But Not Everyone Is Looking for Chaos.
The consensus among the educators who participated in focus groups was that making is a way for students to make order out of chaos and that this path is expectedly going to be messy.
AI’s Potential In Education
Artificial Intelligence has the ability to revolutionize education, learning and accessibility. Education has and will continue to benefit from AI in ways we can and cannot yet imagine.
Scaffolding Complex Topics in Middle School Social Studies
Children’s books and movies can help introduce topics like economic systems and make new material accessible for students.
California’s largest district rolls out seal of approval for STEM schools
California’s largest district rolls out seal of approval for STEM schools
Study: Boosting soft skills is better than raising test scores
Chicago analysis finds schools that foster social-emotional development get better results for students
Survey: Most grads would change majors if they could redo college
Although most college graduates say their degree was worth the money, nearly two-thirds (61%) of them would change their major if they could do it again
STEM Education Needs a Course Correction
All children need some form of STEM—whether they choose to pursue a career in it or not—so that they can be pilots and not just passengers in this technological age.
Not a ‘math person’? You may be better at learning to code than you think
New research finds that a natural aptitude for learning languages is a stronger predictor of learning to program than basic math knowledge.