The Educational Value of Field Trips - Education Next
网页2013年9月16日 · The Educational Value of Field Trips. Taking students to an art museum improves critical thinking skills, and more. 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.
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 ...
Busting the Myths About Year-Round School Calendars
网页2022年10月25日 · Each school day was slightly longer to preserve the number of hours in school. Myth #2: The main goal of year-round calendars is to help students learn. Most public conversation about balanced calendars assumes that they are designed to …
To Fix Students’ Bad Behavior, Stop Punishing Them
网页2023年8月29日 · To Fix Students’ Bad Behavior, Stop Punishing Them. Collaborative methods for handling misconduct make their way to the classroom. Wayne D’Orio. Ten minutes after class starts, a student flings open the door, struts in, and yells, “What’s up, bitches?”. If this kind of conduct is familiar to you, you don’t need a primer on how ...
Has Inclusion Gone Too Far? - Education Next
网页2018年7月24日 · Has Inclusion Gone Too Far? 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).
Don’t Ruin College by Making It Free - Education Next
网页2020年3月9日 · The 2020 Democratic primary has changed the debate on higher education in the United States. When Senator Bernie Sanders first proposed making public college free during his 2016 campaign, most commentators, myself included, dismissed the idea as radical and unrealistic, along with his candidacy. Just four years later, Sanders is a …
Results of President Obama’s Race to the Top - Education Next
网页2015年7月14日 · Results of President Obama’s Race to the Top. Win or lose, states enacted education reforms. William G. Howell. Caught between extraordinary public expectations and relatively modest constitutional authority, U.S. presidents historically have fashioned all sorts of mechanisms—executive orders, proclamations, memoranda—by which to move ...
How Family Background Influences Student Achievement
网页2016年2月17日 · How Family Background Influences Student Achievement. Can schools narrow the gap? 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.
Breaking Down School Budgets - Education Next
网页2009年8月16日 · The following sections provide examples of spending-on-service findings from the three districts studied. Results. Figure 1 shows the range of per-pupil costs in District 1: electives came at a cost of $512 per pupil versus $328 per math class, $434 per English class, and $564 per class in a foreign language.
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.