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EdNews Daily
MAY 3, 2021
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part series. Featured How Learning Works Technology Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Cognative LearningBusinesses often refer to the 80/20 rule.
EdNews Daily
APRIL 25, 2021
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part article. Featured Op-Ed Technology Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Brainware Safari
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EdNews Daily
DECEMBER 2, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark One of the positive things to come out of the pandemic is our newfound ability to look an outdated concept in the eye and say, “Enough!”
EdNews Daily
MARCH 2, 2023
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark For some, this comparison will seem obvious. For some, it will seem curious, at first blush. For some, it will seem preposterous, or even insulting. We hope that, like most good analogies, the aptness of the comparison ultimately enlightens.
EdNews Daily
JANUARY 20, 2023
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Back in 2011, researchers at University College London offered dramatic, direct evidence that intelligence can change after early childhood.
EdNews Daily
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark To perhaps risk the ire of educators across the nation, we should ask, ‘Is academic performance really important? And if so, why?’ On its surface, these may seem like absurd questions for anyone in the education biz.
EdNews Daily
AUGUST 22, 2021
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark A recently published research study on teachers’ understanding of the brain and neuroscience research has been getting a lot of attention.
EdNews Daily
JANUARY 17, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark “We stand on the threshold of important new advances in neuroscience that will yield increased understanding of brain functioning and the way we learn.
EdNews Daily
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark The percentage of students classified as “special ed” across the country is currently about 13 percent. We have come across schools where the proportion of students receiving specialized services is as high as 30 percent or more.
EdNews Daily
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark A 17-year-old high-school student recently walked into a high-stakes test without the accommodations that he had received for years.
EdNews Daily
OCTOBER 14, 2022
By Betsy Hill & Roger Stark Multiple decades of research and practice have resulted in significant shifts in the way students with learning disabilities are supported in schools in the U.S. All signs point to training weak cognitive processes rather than bypassing them.
EdNews Daily
OCTOBER 5, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark During global Brain Awareness Week, some seven years ago in March 2015, The Kennedy Forum convened experts at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, MA to consider perspectives and review (then) recent findings on brain research.
EdNews Daily
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Education is moving from being based on folklore to being grounded in science at an ever-faster pace.
EdNews Daily
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Schools continue to explore new ways to address the impact of COVID-19 on our learners.
EdNews Daily
AUGUST 19, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark It may seem trite to say the brain is where learning takes place and therefore we need to know about the brain when we consider how to improve learning outcomes.
EdNews Daily
AUGUST 5, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark As the new school year begins, it is important to review some recent research about sleep and cognition. New information makes it even more clear how important sleep is to learning and memory, brain health, alertness and much more.
EdNews Daily
JULY 18, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Doesn’t everyone have the ability to learn? Of course. Learning is what our brains do. As we interact with the environment, the neurons in our brains make connections.
EdNews Daily
JULY 18, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark We often hear from parents that their child struggles with reading comprehension. Their child can “read” a text, but then can’t remember what they read or answer questions or do anything with the information from the text.
EdNews Daily
JULY 6, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark As the scientific community’s understanding of the brain increases, the knowledge reaching outside the research community does too.
EdNews Daily
JUNE 24, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Editor’s Note: This is part two of a three-part series In part one of our series, we explored the relationship between mental health issues, cognitive skills in general, as well as the connection to the stress and anxiety that students and teachers are experiencing in the K-12 world.
EdNews Daily
JUNE 18, 2021
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark In Part One of this series, we envisioned a world where vastly greater numbers of students could improve their cognitive skills so that they score at the 70th percentile or higher.
EdNews Daily
MARCH 30, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Schools are exploring new ways to address the impact that Covid-19 has had and continues to have on students.
EdNews Daily
MARCH 3, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark When the term “gamification” comes up in the context of education, it is usually introduced as a way to improve student engagement and motivation.
EdNews Daily
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to better understand and address mental health in more effective ways.
EdNews Daily
JANUARY 17, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Some people just love to complain. You know them or maybe you are one of them. In an article in the New York Times Opinion section, Samantha Irby claimed, “To complain is to truly be alive.” For her, complaining is comforting, “a hot bath” for her feelings.
EdNews Daily
OCTOBER 27, 2021
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark There continues to be controversy regarding cognitive training (sometimes called brain training) programs, and there continue to be many skeptics.
EdNews Daily
OCTOBER 13, 2021
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark A lot is being written about our youngsters not getting enough sleep, particularly our high school students. In fact, many high schools have raised the time for their opening bells, hoping to give our juniors and seniors another hour in which to sleep.
EdNews Daily
OCTOBER 1, 2021
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark First – A History Lesson Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 was intended to narrow the educational achievement gap for children from families with low socio-economic status (SES).
EdNews Daily
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark With all the attention being paid to the differences between learners and the need for differentiation, it is also important to remember that intra-learner variability can be just as perplexing as inter-learner variability, especially for the learners involved.
EdNews Daily
JULY 31, 2021
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark We’ve been encountering the term “cognitive capacity” more and more often since we started to make the distinction between “cognitive ability” and “cognitive capacity” a few years ago.
EdNews Daily
JULY 11, 2021
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark President Biden recently announced plans to fund efforts to address the shortage of teachers, a situation that has been building for many years and accelerated because of the pandemic.
EdNews Daily
MAY 6, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Editor’s Note: This is part one in a three-part series Wellbeing is the word that is on the tip of everyone’s tongue these days. And for good reason. It is that single, intangible state that allows for so many other states we deem desirable: happiness, healthfulness, productiveness, gratitude, contentment, enjoyment, optimism, and more. Wellbeing is also a state that is currently elusive for both students and teachers – indeed, for many of us.
EdNews Daily
APRIL 28, 2022
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark The concept of a “growth mindset” comes from the groundbreaking work of Dr. Carol Dweck, whose research has helped clarify why some people thrive on challenges and why others do not. She found real differences in brain activity and behavior between people she characterizes as having a fixed mindset vs. a growth mindset.
EdNews Daily
MARCH 26, 2021
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark The term cognitive learning is used to characterize specific aspects or theories of learning and generally implies a view of learning that: Relates to conscious understanding rather than behavioral knowledge (skills).
EdNews Daily
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark As we learn about the role of cognitive skills in academic performance, we become increasingly aware of the importance of the subset of cognitive skills known as Executive Functions.
EdNews Daily
JANUARY 22, 2021
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Editor’s Note: This is the final installment in a five-part series.
EdNews Daily
DECEMBER 11, 2020
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Editor’s Note: This is part four of a five-part series. In the fourth article in our series, we turn to the contribution that neuroscience research can make to address equity in education by solving the problem of students’ cognitive capacity.
EdNews Daily
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Editor’s Note: This is Part 3 in a five-part series. In the first article in this series, we discussed the concept that the greatest matter of equity our nation’s students face is their cognitive capacity.
EdNews Daily
OCTOBER 10, 2020
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Editor’s Note: This is part two in a five-part series In our first article in this Achieving Equity series, we suggested that the greatest obstacle to equity that students face in the U.S.
EdNews Daily
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Editor’s Note: This is part one of a five-part series As the 2020-21 school year begins with remote learning as the norm for most students in the U.S.,
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Personalized learning is core to the model at Rogers Elementary, and Kristen Watkins, director of the personalized learning program at Dallas Independent School District, says that exposing students to multiple devices is an intentional part of the school’s approach. Rogers adds that it doesn’t require a lot of resources either. It’s just taken off,” Rogers says of the initiative.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 2, 2023
In other parts of the country, though, the picture for homeless students is starkly different. VANCOUVER, Wash. When her bill for overdue rent topped five digits, Resly Suka decided it was time to tell her kids they might lose their home.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Stark funding disparities exist in higher education. The country is about to see a first lady grading community college papers. Credit: Instagram. Michelle Obama was once asked by People magazine what it was like to travel with Jill Biden on Air Force One.
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