The Chronicle of Higher Education

Let’s Improve Learning. OK, but How?

Does American higher education have a systematic way of thinking about how to improve student learning? It would certainly be useful, especially at a time when budgets are tight and the pressure is on ...
The Connecticut Mirror

Let’s try a different approach to learning during the stress of the pandemic

Many of us want to write about our experience during the pandemic, but we are too busy and too exhausted to add one more thing to our overwhelmingly packed daily agenda. It is 5 a.m., the time I have ...
syracuse.com

Let's keep kids learning during the summer (Your letters)

What happens when learning takes a vacation during summer break? Research shows that summers without quality learning opportunities hold back our nation's youth - year after year - in core subjects ...
EdSource

Let’s recognize learning can happen anywhere — especially now

Right now, California has a unique opportunity to level the playing field when it comes to our public colleges and universities. For too long, our system of higher education has served a specific ...
Yahoo

65+ Learning Quotes for Kids to Get Them Excited & Motivated

Instilling a love of learning in a child gives them some of life's greatest gifts: curiosity and a hunger for knowledge so they can become students of the world. Inspire them, teach them to be ...
EdSurge

Let’s Not Think in Terms of Learning Loss — Let’s Focus on Where Students Have Gained

As we gear up for yet another school year, we in education have a choice to make on what we will value going forward. The past year has been one of loss, of course, but it has also been a year of gain ...
The Oakland Press

Don’t let learning slide in summer months, educators say

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Teachers spend ...
EdSource

Expanded learning is the right investment for right now – let’s make sure we do it wisely

We and many fellow advocates were excited to see that California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent budget announcement included $4.6 billion for expanded learning time, including afterschool and summer ...
Education Week

Let the Learning Lead, Not the Label

Learning stops once we label it, which is one of the inherent problems with traditional grading. If we want students to see themselves as life-long learners, who value progress in their own learning ...
Psychology Today

Let’s Advance Education as a Learning System

Post by Vivian Tseng, Vice President, Programs at the William T. Grant Foundation. Follow her on Twitter @VivianT88. In 2006, Professor Paul Cobb of Vanderbilt University approached Michael Sorum—then ...
Education Week

Project-Based Learning Is Here to Stay: Let’s Make Sure It’s High Quality (Part Two)

This post is by John Larmer, editor in chief of the Buck Institute for Education, and Bob Lenz, executive director of the Buck Institute for Education. Follow them @JohnLBIE and @PBLBob. In part one ...