Can Historians Help School Reformers? (Larry Cuban)
Imho? Yes.
Imho? Yes.
The majority of readers of this blog will have an inner voice, an ongoing conversation with themselves. But between 5 and 10 percent of the population does not have such an inner voice. A new study shows that this group now has poorer verbal memory. From the press release: Previously, it was commonly assumed that… Read More Do you suffer from anendophasia? Are you missing an inner voice? If so, I’ve got some bad news for you
A bit of perfectionism can be a good thing—I hope—but it can definitely have negative consequences. This new study among ninth-graders attending lower secondary school in Swedish-speaking areas of Finland identified four perfectionistic profiles with varying associations with students’ psychological well-being. “Perfectionists displayed a maladaptive pattern of general and academic well-being.” From the press release:… Read More How Perfectionism Can Affect your Well-being as a Teen
One of the bigger challenges in education is upscaling. Something worked like a charm in a project, but when the project inspires other schools or even inspires new legislation, things often get much less spectacular. Maybe it was an example of the Hawthorne effect. Quite often, it was because the original participants in the project… Read More The most difficult question in education if something works: what is actually working?
My friend Danny shared this with me:
So true…
There is a new Best Evidence in Brief, and this time, I picked this study from this biweekly newsletter written by Nathan Storey, Johns Hopkins University. Existing research has suggested that secondary students benefit from later school start times to accommodate adolescent sleep patterns and address chronic sleep loss, as well as other mental and physical… Read More How does school start time impact young students’ outcomes? (Best Evidence in Brief)
Yesterday, I tweeted—sorry, in Dutch—a lot of reactions to a debate program on TV. Yes, I feel old. In the discussion, the claim was repeated that the current mental health crisis among young people is caused by social media and smartphones. This claim has now become very popular because of the new book by Jon… Read More What if we are overlooking an important cause for the possible mental health crisis?
If you think this will be a depressing post, just read on. This new study, co-authored by Sophie Janicke-Bowles, an associate professor in Chapman University’s School of Communication, sheds light on the role that new and traditional media play in promoting and affecting character development, emotions, prosocial behaviour, and well-being (aka happiness) in youth and… Read More How new and traditional media affect well-being among young people depends in part on the parents!
From xkcd of course!