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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions. Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs.

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Reimagining failure: ‘Last-chance’ schools are the future of American high schools

The Hechinger Report

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. After giving birth to her son in 2011, Burgos dropped out of her old school when counselors told her that she didn’t have enough credits to pass ninth grade.

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How To Make A Civics Education Stick

MindShift

“What’s the dropout rate in some places? On the civics portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, commonly called the “Nation’s Report Card,” students of color and low-income students have consistently scored lower than their white, wealthier counterparts. Forty percent?

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