How Teachers and Schools Can Help When Bad Stuff Happens and more in this...
How Teachers and Schools Can Help When Bad Stuff Happens (NPR Ed) Whether it’s a hurricane, a mass shooting, racial and political violence or family trauma closer to home, teachers can be helpers....
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Toward an Imagination Science (Scientific American) Is imagination a fixed ability, or can it be enhanced through targeted intervention? Multiple-choice Testing: Are the Best Practices for Assessment...
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When The Focus Is On The Student, Not The Class (NPR Ed) It’s all part of an approach that Pittsfield, and a growing number of schools across the country, have adopted called student-centered...
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10 Trends to Watch in Psychology (Monitor on Psychology) Explore how several far-reaching developments in psychology are transforming the field and society at large. Why Isn’t researchED More Popular...
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How to stand out in your interview and job talk (APA Monitor on Psychology) Vital advice from psychology chairs and others who make hiring decisions. Teaching Newsletter: How to Infuse Creativity in...
View ArticleThe Emotional Challenges of Student Veterans and More In This Week’s News...
The Emotional Challenges of Student Veterans on Campus (The Conversation) In the military, service members felt a sense of brotherhood, became leaders and found a life of meaning and purpose. In...
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The House Just Voted to Bankrupt Graduate Students and more in this week’s...
The House Just Voted to Bankrupt Graduate Students (New York Times) Republicans in the House of Representatives have just passed a tax bill that would devastate graduate research in the United States....
View ArticleCombat Classroom Stress, Distributed Practice, and more in this week’s news...
Quick Classroom Exercises to Combat Stress (Edutopia) These brain breaks and focused-attention practices can help students cope with stress and trauma and focus on their learning. How can schools use...
View ArticleThe Pyramid of Myth, Proposed Tax Plan and more in this week’s news roundup!
The Pyramid of Myth (Effortful Educator) There are many myths in education. I believe they all result from well-intentioned educators and/or researchers. However, with these myths, evidence simply...
View ArticleBuzzword Wasteland, Cognitive Load and more in the News Roundup
Teaching and Learning: Lost in a Buzzword Wasteland (Inside Higher Ed) Educational buzzwords often encompass ill-defined categories of practices and mean different things to different people. Take...
View ArticleApparent Relief for Grad Students and more in this week’s news roundup
Apparent Relief for Grad Students (Inside Higher Ed) Reports indicate congressional negotiators have dropped repeal of tax-exempt tuition waivers for graduate students and other provisions affecting...
View ArticleWhy “Science-Based” Matters and more in this week’s news roundup!
Why “Science-Based” Matters (Psychology Today) Why the White House’s request of the CDC is so troubling Teachers Share Their Favorite Gifts From Students (Education Week – Subscription Required)...
View ArticleThe Biggest Education Stories Of 2017…and more in this week’s news roundup!
The Biggest Education Stories Of 2017 And 2018 (NPR Education) It’s not every year that a new Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, becomes a household name, satirized on Saturday Night Live, never mind...
View ArticleWhat Do Psychology Faculty Earn, Thinking like a Psychological Scientist and...
What Do Psychology Faculty Earn (Monitor on Psychology) The latest data analysis from APA’s Center for Workforce Studies. For example, in 2017 the median salary for tenured/tenure-track professors was...
View ArticlePublic Service Loan Forgiveness program benefits us all and more in this...
Public Service Loan Forgiveness program benefits us all (Kansas City Star) PSLF is a necessary program that recognizes that public service is a pursuit of the heart, and is often not lucrative. It...
View ArticleStudents and Robots, in Harmony and more in this week’s news roundup!
Students and Robots, in Harmony (Inside Higher Ed) At Michigan State, some online students embody robots to populate face-to-face classrooms, helping bridge the distance gap with their on-campus...
View Articlepsychology faculty salaries at four-year colleges and universities and more...
New APA report analyzes psychology faculty salaries at four-year colleges and universities (Psychological Science Agenda) The report breaks down salaries by type of institution, rank, gender and other...
View ArticleYale’s Most Popular Class Ever: Happiness…and more in this week’s news roundup!
Yale’s Most Popular Class Ever: Happiness (New York Times) On Jan. 12, a few days after registration opened at Yale for Psyc 157, Psychology and the Good Life, roughly 300 people had signed up. Within...
View ArticleDo Students Utilize Effective Learning Strategies and more in this week’s...
Do Students Utilize Effective Learning Strategies? (The Learning Scientists) My anecdotes with my students are not unique. Many students are unaware of the best ways to study, and instead rely on...
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Talking to Children About Violence: Tips for Parents and Teachers (National Association of School Psychologists) High profile acts of violence, particularly in schools, can confuse and frighten...
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