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Yearly Archives: 2017
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Use Your Words: The Impact of Parent and Teacher Speech...
It’s finals time! As the promise of spring and summer days rolls in, the increase…
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Home News
Exciting news: my book was published at the beginning of April. (I’m resisting the temptation…
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The Potential Benefits of High School Music Classes
Should 9th graders start music classes–even if they’ve never played an instrument before? Are there academic…
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The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman
As an easy-to-read and engaging textbook or as a scientifically accurate and detailed popular psychology…
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School, Self-Regulation, and the Brain
The Study A just-published study asks about the effect of schooling on the brain. (A…
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Understanding Racial Imbalances in Special Education
As another April has come and gone, so has another World Autism Month. The Light…
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What He Said
In recent weeks, this blog has written about the dangerous assumption that students can just…
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Good News ! (?) College Profs Don’t Use the Untrue...
This story offers both good and bad news: I’ll let you sort out whether there’s…
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Classroom Data to Enhance STEM Teaching
Regular readers of this blog remember Scott MacClintic’s post about “data informed instruction”; quoting W….
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A Future Without Grades?
You think grades interfere with learning? You’d like to do away with them? And yet,…