Opinion

Pervasive social-emotional learning brings Big Brother to the classroom

Students nationwide can’t read or do math at basic levels and don’t know elementary science or history facts, but there’s a big program to rewire their brains, massage ...

Rate my AI teacher? Students’ perceptions of chatbots will influence how they learn with AI

What people think of their teachers is tremendously important for learning, and should inform how we analyze the potential ...
Psychology Today

Reaching for the Stars Matters in Education

Another unexpected aspect of the school’s educational system was the requirement that students who had failed their weekly test (with a pass mark being 50 percent) must attend a 30-minute catch-up ...
EdSurge

Social-Emotional Learning Can Boost Student Achievement. New Data Says By How Much.

They could be learning the best possible math curriculum from the best possible teacher. But if that student is feeling ...
Psychology Today

Three Key Concepts That Enhance Educational Potential

For example, Edwards-Groves (2012) points out that “[i]n contemporary educational media ‘explicit teaching’ has been ...

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy

Besides, America recently ran a very large natural experiment in dropping money on schools that, in a word, failed. During ...
Education Week

SEL by Another Name? Political Pushback Prompts Rebranding

A 2024 survey by the RAND Corp. and the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning, or CASEL, found that the number of principals reporting that their schools use an SEL program or ...
Religion Dispatches

Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning conspiracy theories on their phones?

Cell phone bans in K-12 institutions were a hot topic this back-to-school season. All 50 states and D.C. have instituted some version of a cell phone ban at the state or district level. These bans are ...
CNN

How Trump health conspiracy theories went wild on social media

President Donald Trump’s political success was derived in part by being omnipresent on every screen. So his recent absence from public view provoked all sorts of speculation – fed by social media ...
Cal Alumni Association

Building a Bridge Between Social-Emotional Learning and Character Education

When challenging student behavior arises, the instinct in many schools is to turn to discipline: assigning detention, suspension, or removal from class. But John Gasko, chief well-being officer at ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Taylor, D. C. M., & Hamdy, H. (2013). Adult Learning Theories: Implications for Learning and Teaching in Medical Education: AMEE Guide No. 83. Medical Teacher, 35, e1561-e1572.

ABSTRACT: Many institutions of higher learning have been, and in some cases continue to be, profoundly shaped by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The University of Namibia (UNAM) was not exempt ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Kretchmar, J. D. (2019). Facilitative and Constructivist Mechanisms in Learning. In D. H. Schunk (Ed.), Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective (8th ed., pp. 312-359 ...

ABSTRACT: Many institutions of higher learning have been, and in some cases continue to be, profoundly shaped by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The University of Namibia (UNAM) was not exempt ...