The Educator's Notebook

AP Courses With Project Based Learning Outperform Traditional Courses
Edutopia - 2/21/21

“In two gold-standard, randomized, controlled trials of thousands of students in diverse school systems across the U.S., project-based learning significantly outperformed traditional curricula, raising academic performance across grade levels, socioeconomic subgroups, and reading ability.”
How Will Schools Change Post-Pandemic? Here Are Some Predictions
NAIS - 1/5/21

“Many schools will keep online learning offerings, and a few will invest in these programs in a big way. Some will move to online parent-teacher conferences held on a more frequent basis. Others will have a group of teachers and staff who are full-time remote and possibly part-time. Some will run virtual classes for some students, and others will offer virtual tutoring. Some schools will figure out how to increase total enrollment by leveraging a combination of online delivery and radically changing the way they do scheduling for high school grades and perhaps some middle school grades.”

"5 Things Every Family Should Know About Paying For College”
NPR - 2/17/21

“Roughly 90 percent of people do not pay the full price. They get some kind of a discount. The number families will actually pay varies widely depending on how desperate a particular institution is to put heads in beds and whether it's particularly desperate for some kinds of people more than others… There is the need-based aid system running on one set of train tracks and then right next to it, in parallel, there's the merit aid system – runs on its own set of tracks.”

"How To Help A Teen Out Of A Homework Hole” [During The Pandemic]
New York Times - 2/26/21
“How The Pandemic Has Altered School Discipline — Perhaps Forever”
Hechinger Report - 2/20/21
High Rates Of Bullying Between Friends and Friends-Of-Friends
UC Davis - 2/17/21

“Teens who bully, harass, or otherwise victimize their peers are not always lashing out in reaction to psychological problems or unhealthy home environments, but are often using aggression strategically to climb their school’s social hierarchy, a University of California, Davis, study suggests. These findings point to the reasons why most anti-bullying programs don’t work and suggest possible strategies for the future.”

Lateral Reading: Using Fact Checking Methods Helps Media Literacy
Harvard - 2/23/21
3 Games To Help People Learn Media Literacy
Behavioral Scientist - 2/22/21

“Instead of telling people what to believe, we created these games to equip players with the skills necessary to identify, argue against, and prevent harmful misinformation from going viral.”

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Inmate Studies Math, Ten Years Later, Publishes In Academic Journal
Popular Mechanics - 2/21/21

“But math helped Havens feel like he was in control. There are rules, but they’re logical and consistent across disciplines. And unlike prison, even when Havens understands the basic workings of a problem, the end result is often a surprise. Math, in many ways, is the perfect antidote to incarceration—and more incarcerated people than we realize are likely engaging in math-as- escapism.”
A Song To Remind Us To “Keep Going On”
YouTube - 10/19/20

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