Long-term Study Shows Students Must Know About Numbers At Beginning of First Grade

Psychologists at the University of Missouri have identified the beginning of first grade math skills that teachers and parents should target to effectively improve children’s later math learning.

New Studies Highlight Benefits of Teacher Coaching

A set of studies released in this month’s special issue of the Elementary School Journal reveals the powerful effect that the coaching of teachers can have on both teachers and students. Science Brief thanks to EurekAlert. Read more here: New studies...

Sidekick Meets the Service Economy?

The title of John Webster’s post to his Data-driven blog, maintained by the CNET Blog Network, promised a valuable follow-up to the unfolding story of the Sidekick data-loss incident: “What the T-Mobile outage means for consumers.”...

Missing the Headline Writer

If yesterday I went on a rant about editors being “pushed out of the loop” in our brave new world of Internet speed, I realized this morning that headline writers are still in that loop and can be just as confounding to readers as ever....