Recently, parents have been warned that too much screen time (30 minutes daily) is very unhealthy for very young children; it impedes their learning and can affect their ability to focus and sustain attention. So, most parents do not allow their very young children to sit in front of a screen for more than 30 [...]
Children all across the country have either just completed the school year or have just a few more weeks before it ends. Of course, they are looking forward to long, lazy days that will require none of their typical school-day routine, and that includes none of the academic demands or mental rigor that their educators [...]
Memories of cramming for exams might surface when one reads about the results of a new study from the University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame Psychologist, Jessica Payne, and colleagues studied the two kinds of declarative memory (the ability to consciously remember facts and event). Declarative memory can be broken down into episodic memory (memory [...]
It’s no secret that mathematics is one of the greatest educational challenges for many students in the United States. The most recent PISA figures, or, Program for International Student Assessment, showed that while American 15-year-olds scored “at the international average of industrialized nations in science and reading,” they were “below the international average in math.” [...]
Professor William Schmidt is the leader of a group of scientists and educators who have culminated six years of work and are proposing that there needs to be a significant change in how science is taught in America’s public schools. Their proposal, the 8 + 1 Science concept, is described in the article, “US Students [...]
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