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The Key to Motivating Students--and Maybe Everyone Else Too
Opinion 28.02.2025

The Key to Motivating Students--and Maybe Everyone Else Too

Students won’t learn unless they’re motivated. But the best way to motivate them is to enable them to experience achievement.


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To Boost Learning, Weave Writing Activities Into Regular Instruction
Opinion 31.01.2025

To Boost Learning, Weave Writing Activities Into Regular Instruction

Weaving explicit writing instruction into class discussion can maximize the benefits of any content-rich curriculum—and help students become proficient writers.


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Want Students to Be Good Speakers? Teach Them to Write
Opinion 12.12.2024

Want Students to Be Good Speakers? Teach Them to Write

A push for "oracy" in England points up connections between writing and oral language

Thinking is Hard
Opinion 22.11.2024

Thinking is Hard

Thinking is hard. As someone whose career is more or less based on thinking thoughts, and communicating those thoughts effectively, I have a love-hate relationship with thinking.


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Cold Calling and Classroom Discussions
Latest Science 07.06.2024

Cold Calling and Classroom Discussions

Inserting questions into a lecture, and encouraging students to covertly retrieve through cold calling, ought to improve learning from a lesson. If time does not permit writing out the answers (one form of overt retrieval), or doing so would disrupt the flow of a discussion, then students should still benefit from bringing the information to mind if they are encouraged to do so fully through cold calling.


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Math Practices You Can Count On: Part 5
Latest Science 03.05.2024

Math Practices You Can Count On: Part 5

Research-validated practices have been shown to be effective for student mathematics outcomes across multiple studies. In this five-part series, we explain the practice, the research that supports the practice, and what this practice might look like in the classroom.


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Math Practices You Can Count On: Part 4
Latest Science 26.04.2024

Math Practices You Can Count On: Part 4

Research-validated practices have been shown to be effective for student mathematics outcomes across multiple studies. In this five-part series, we explain the practice, the research that supports the practice, and what this practice might look like in the classroom.


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Math Practices You Can Count On: Part 3
Latest Science 19.04.2024

Math Practices You Can Count On: Part 3

Research-validated practices have been shown to be effective for student mathematics outcomes across multiple studies. In this five-part series, we explain the practice, the research that supports the practice, and what this practice might look like in the classroom.


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Math Practices You Can Count On: Part 2
Latest Science 12.04.2024

Math Practices You Can Count On: Part 2

Research-validated practices have been shown to be effective for student mathematics outcomes across multiple studies. In this five-part series, we explain the practice, the research that supports the practice, and what this practice might look like in the classroom.


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Math Practices You Can Count On: Part 1
Latest Science 05.04.2024

Math Practices You Can Count On: Part 1

Research-validated practices have been shown to be effective for student mathematics outcomes across multiple studies. In this five-part series, we explain the practice, the research that supports the practice, and what this practice might look like in the classroom.


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Do two weeks of instruction time matter?
Opinion 21.03.2024 Reading time: 4 min

Do two weeks of instruction time matter?

In Madrid, public schools cut two weeks from their school year without altering the syllabus. We examined student test scores before and after this change and compared them with private schools, which didn't experience this shift.

Dramatic new evidence that building knowledge can boost comprehension and close gaps
Opinion 22.06.2023 Reading time: 6 min

Dramatic new evidence that building knowledge can boost comprehension and close gaps

Building students’ general knowledge can lead to dramatic long-term improvements in reading comprehension, a new study suggests—casting serious doubt on standard teaching approaches.


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