Kids growing up in chaotic homes with no clear rules or routines have lower IQs and more behavior problems, concludes a study analyzed by Daniel Willingham on The Answer Sheet.
Rsearchers factored out “the parents’ education level, parent’s IQ, a measure of the literacy environment in the home (number of [...]
An education job you may want Answer Sheet
Here’s what Assistant Education Secretary
Peter Cunningham is doing today while you are in your office: He’s
continuing his “Pacific Islands Listening and Learning” tour in Hawaii.
RI raises bar for new teachers JoanneJacobs
Currently, Rhode Island ranks among [...]
Online teaching may encourage student-teacher interaction, writes Dan Willingham, with surprise, on The Answer Sheet. Online teachers told him they know their students better than when they taught in conventional classrooms.
For younger students, a caretaker (usually the mother) is on hand, and so the teacher does not need to [...]
On The Answer Sheet, cognitive scientist Dan Willingham argues that arts education is more than a luxury, citing a speech by Jerry Kagan, a developmental psychology researcher.
First, he estimated that something like 95% of children are capable of doing the work necessary to obtain a high school diploma, yet [...]
One of our favorite cognitive scientists, Daniel Willingham, is introducing a new recurring feature, "Hall of Shame," on the Washington Post's Answer Sheet blog. His point is to debunk the [...]
One of our favorite cognitive scientists, Daniel Willingham, is introducing a new recurring feature, "Hall of Shame," on the Washington Post's Answer Sheet blog. His point is to debunk the claims made by the marketers of "educational" products, curricula and technologies that are rooted in flawed "science" -- [...]
One of our favorite cognitive scientists, Daniel Willingham, is introducing a new recurring feature, "Hall of Shame," on the Washington Post's Answer Sheet blog. His point is to debunk the claims made by the marketers of "educational" products, curricula and technologies that are rooted in flawed "science" -- [...]
