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Gratitude in School, 2020 Edition
Here’s a pre-Thanksgiving question: How much good news can you pack into one psychology study?…
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Parachutes Don’t Help (Important Asterisk)
A surprising research finding to start your week: parachutes don’t reduce injury or death. How…
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The Source of Student Motivation: Deeper than We Know?
Usually I blog about specific research findings that inform education. Today — to mix things…
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“But How Do We Know If It Works in the...
We’ve heard so much about retrieval practice in the last two years that it seems…