The Educational Value of Field Trips - Education Next
网页2013年9月16日 · Jay P. Greene joined EdNext Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss the benefits of field trips, including how seeing live theater is a more enriching experience to students, on the EdNext podcast. The school field trip has a long history in American public education. For decades, students have piled into yellow buses to visit a variety of ...
Has Inclusion Gone Too Far? - Education Next
网页2018年7月24日 · Allison F. Gilmour. The model of special education known as inclusion, or mainstreaming, has become more prevalent over the past 10 years, and today, more than 60 percent of all students with disabilities (SWDs) spend 80 percent or more of their school day in regular classrooms, alongside their non-disabled peers (see Figure 1).
How Teachers Unions Became a Political Powerhouse
网页2023年2月15日 · How Teachers Unions Became a Political Powerhouse. University of Chicago Press, 2022, $35; 312 pages. As reviewed by Daniel DiSalvo. During the Covid-19 pandemic, school districts with strong teachers unions were slower to bring students back to the classroom than districts with weaker unions were. Controversy over the unions’ power to ...
To Fix Students’ Bad Behavior, Stop Punishing Them
网页2023年8月29日 · Suggested citation format: D’Orio, W. (2023). To Fix Students’ Bad Behavior, Stop Punishing Them: Collaborative methods for handling misconduct make their way to the classroom. Education Next, 23 (4), 50-55. For more, please see “ The Top 20 Education Next Articles of 2023.”.
The Shrinking School Week - Education Next
网页2021年5月4日 · The total number of Oregon schools with a four-day school week increased from 108 in 2005 to a peak of 156 in 2014, before falling to 137 by 2019. For both four- and five-day schools, I calculate weekly time in class based on the start and end time of the school day, adjusting for early dismissals.
How Family Background Influences Student Achievement
网页2016年2月17日 · This article is part of a new Education Next series commemorating the 50th anniversary of James S. Coleman’s groundbreaking report, “Equality of Educational Opportunity.”The full series will appear in the Spring 2016 issue of Education Next.. On the weekend before the Fourth of July 1966, the U.S. Office of Education quietly released a 737-page report that summarized one of the most ...
AI in Education - Education Next
网页2023年8月8日 · AI in Education. The leap into a new era of machine intelligence carries risks and challenges, but also plenty of promise. In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 science fiction novel, The Diamond Age, readers meet Nell, a young girl who comes into possession of a highly advanced book, The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. The book is not the usual ...
The Stubborn Myth of “Learning Styles” - Education Next
网页2020年4月7日 · The idea of “learning styles” is persistent and popular in the field, in part because many teachers don’t know the science that disproves it. Education and teacher preparation are better when they are informed by empirical evidence than when they operate in disregard of it. It is important to ensure that educators are prepared with ...
How to Empower Every Student to Talk in Class—and Why It Matters
网页2021年12月21日 · Plan 2-3 “discourse moves” to engage all students in the discourse; encourage students to talk to each other rather than the teacher. These moves might include things like wait time, a quiet pause while students synthesize their thoughts and prepare to speak; batch call, where a teacher calls on two or three students to talk one after the ...
The Case for (Quality) Homework - Education Next
网页2018年10月10日 · For middle-school students, Cooper and colleagues report that 90 minutes per day of homework is optimal for enhancing academic achievement, and for high schoolers, the ideal range is 90 minutes to two and a half hours per day. Beyond this threshold, more homework does not contribute to learning.
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