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AI Won’t Ever Learn Like People: A Deep Dive Into Early Childhood
Guardian - 4/3/18

“These findings are clear: if you start on the decoding before you have an underlying understanding of story, experience, sensation and emotion, then you become a worse reader. And you like it less. Treat kids like robots during early learning and you put them off for life.”
Seeking Consistency In Classrooms Rarely Succeeds
Larry Cuban - 4/1/18

“Policies aimed at standardizing classroom practice seldom produce homogeneous lessons.”

admissions

Should Schools Use Massive Waitlists?
NPR - 4/5/18

"In the spring of 2017, Dartmouth College, a small ivy league school in New Hampshire, offered 2,021 waitlist spots to applicants. Of the 1,345 who chose to stay on the waitlist, not a single person got in.”

adolescence

“Schools Struggle With Vaping Explosion”
New York Times - 4/2/18

athena

New LRMI Schema
LRMI - 4/5/18
On Moving from Freemium To Cost
EdSurge - 4/4/18
Reddit’s Redesign
Wired - 4/2/18

athletics

“Bananas Vs. Sports Drinks? Bananas Win In Study”
New York Times - 4/4/18

“It found that a banana, with its all-natural package, provides comparable or greater anti-inflammatory and other benefits for athletes than sports drinks. But there may be a downside, and it involves bloating.”

character

Character Lab Releases Resources On Expert Practice
Character Lab - 4/6/18
Rethinking The Benefits Of Grit, Exploring The Costs
Creativity Post - 4/3/18
Resistance Is Futile. Don’t Resist Bad Habits, Replace Them.
New York Times - 3/19/18
Researcher Identifies Factors That Lead To Happy Settings
Wharton - 3/2/18

“My central argument when it comes to happiness is that if you try to get happier, it’s a recipe for neurosis. That usually doesn’t work. But you can set up your environment so you’re more likely to be happy.”

cognitive science

What Happens When Working Memory Reaches Capacity?
MIT - 4/6/18
“Nail In The Coffin" For Learning Styles
Business Insider - 4/4/18
Writing About Past Failures Reduces Stress
Frontiers In Behavioral Neuroscience - 3/23/18

“Our results suggest that writing about a previous failure may allow an individual to experience a new stressor as less stressful, reducing its physiological and behavioral effects.”
“Optimising Learning Using Retrieval Practice”
Impact - 2/1/18

curriculum

Drones In The Curriculum: High School And College
New York Times - 4/5/18
Knowledge Matters. More Calls For Teaching Knowledge With Skills
The Hill - 4/3/18

diversity/inclusion

Molly Ringwald On John Hughes In The Age Of #MeToo
New Yorker - 4/6/18

“John’s movies convey the anger and fear of isolation that adolescents feel, and seeing that others might feel the same way is a balm for the trauma that teen-agers experience. Whether that’s enough to make up for the impropriety of the films is hard to say.”
Study Groups With More Women Get Better Grades
Pacific Standard - 4/5/18

higher ed

“Middle Class Families Are Increasingly Looking At Community Colleges”
New York Times - 4/5/18

“In recent years, Pasadena City College has had a 320 percent increase in students whose parents make more than $100,000 a year, to 828 students last year from 197 in 2007. And it’s not alone.”
Colleges, Under Stress, Are Starting To Evolve
New York Times - 4/5/18
The Buzzwordiest Headline I’ve Ever Seen
Observatory of Education Innovation - 4/2/18

“First blockchain university promises to be the Uber for students and AirBnB for teachers…”
In Depth Look At Georgia Tech’s Online Masters
Education Next - 3/28/18

humanities

"Your Pocket Guide To 10 Literary Movements”
Literary Hub - 4/5/18

language

Are Millennials Really Reinventing Language With Textspeak?
Mashable - 4/2/18
How Metaphor Changes Our Thought More Than Politics Does
Quartz - 3/31/18

“Emerging psychological research tells us that something as simple as a single metaphor can have consequences for how we think. They can also be powerful tools in the hands of those looking to shape our opinions.”

leadership

Cathedral Thinking: Keeping The Long, Long Term In Mind
Misc Magazine - 4/7/18
On The Importance Of Purpose (And How It’s Different From Mission)
Fast Company - 4/2/18
"Five Ways To Sustain School Change”
KQED - 4/1/18

"There are five pillars to sustaining change: permission, support, community engagement, accountability and staying the course.”

stem

The Computational Essay: Jupyter, Mathematica, And The New Paper
Atlantic - 4/5/18

“Scientific results today are as often as not found with the help of computers. That’s because the ideas are complex, dynamic, hard to grab ahold of in your mind’s eye. And yet by far the most popular tool we have for communicating these results is the PDF—literally a simulation of a piece of paper. Maybe we can do better.”
On The Joy (And Value) Of Scatterplots
Quartz - 3/31/18

tech

How To Detoxify The Internet: Free Speech and Censorship Online
New Yorker - 3/19/18

other

"Homework Therapists”?
New York Times - 4/4/18
Elements Of Effective Summer Programming
AFT - 3/28/18

"We reviewed a foundational meta-analysis of summer learning programs conducted by researchers as well as evidence from 25 studies of such programs since 2000. The programs covered in our review included voluntary at-home summer reading programs, voluntary classroom-based summer programs, and mandatory summer programs that students must attend to avoid in-grade retention.”
The Mathematics Behind The Major Triad In Music
YouTube - 9/9/14

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