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Q&A: Research on Educational Apps
A new report published in the April issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest provides a set of four evidence-based principles that parents, educators, and app designers can use to evaluate the quality of
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U.S. study finds teacher bias in discipline toward black students
Reuters: Teachers in the United States were more likely to feel troubled when a black student misbehaved for a second time than when a white student did, highlighting a bias that shows why African-American children
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Students’ Race Affects How Teachers Judge Misbehavior, Study Says
Education Week: Racial disparities in school discipline are well-documented: According to recent studies, students of color are disciplined and taken out of class at higher rates than their white peers, and black students are more likely
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Teachers More Likely to Label Black Students as Troublemakers
Black children are disproportionately disciplined in school. Results of a psychological study suggest some potential reasons.
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A Professor Forced Her Students to Take Notes by Hand
New York Magazine: A communications professor at the University of Kansas, tired of teaching to a classroom of students whose faces were all bathed in the blue light of their laptop screens, banned technology-enabled note-taking
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The Benefits of No-Tech Note Taking
The Chronicle of Higher Education: The moment of truth for me came in the spring 2013 semester. I looked out at my visual-communication class and saw a group of six students transfixed by the blue
