A 2021 study reveals the ways in which new and experienced teachers think about discipline—plus 6 takeaways for managing your classroom effectively this year.
Three new reports on student achievement during the pandemic all point to larger declines in math than in reading and widening gaps between the haves and have-nots. But describing exactly how students are doing academically is proving to be a challenge when school closures and pandemic experiences varied so wildly from state to state and…
A new artificial intelligence Quick Comments feature is designed to enable math teachers give feedback to students more quickly by offering three initial suggestions for comments on students' math homework based on natural language interpretation of written answers. The feature was developed by a team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Overall, we find that measured verbal, non-verbal, and overall cognitive scores are significantly lower since the beginning of the pandemic. Looking further, we find that children born before the pandemic and followed through the initial stages do not show a reduction in skills or performance, but rather that young infants born since the beginning of…
Children born during the coronavirus pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor and overall cognitive performance compared with children born before, a US study suggests.
Non-fungible tokens are creating buzz in the tech world and could play a role in education, says a teacher and students who are using NFTs. In this podcast, a high-school teacher and student explain how they used NFTs - which allow for creation of a one-of-a-kind digital file that is authenticated -- as a form…