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The Bare Walls Theory: Do Too Many Classroom Decorations Harm Learning?
NBC: To decorate her kindergarten classroom for the new school year, Lori Baker chose cheerful alphabet and number charts featuring smiling children of different races. In the reading corner, she hung three puffy paper flowers
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Kids Get Better Grades When They Share Similarities With Teachers
The Atlantic: The teacher-student relationship impacts every aspect of the educational experience. When students don’t feel safe, respected, or truly known by their teacher, they are less likely to invest and engage in their education.
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Teens’ Science Interest Linked With Knowledge, but Only in Wealthier Nations
It seems logical that a student who is interested in science as an academic subject would also know a lot about science, but new findings show that this link depends on the overall wealth of
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Bringing The Body To Digital Learning
PBS: Today’s educational technology often presents itself as a radical departure from the tired practices of traditional instruction. But in one way, at least, it faithfully follows the conventions of the chalk-and-blackboard era: it addresses
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Storytelling From a Three-Legged Stool
Once upon a time, I watched Dacher Keltner on the BBC series The Human Face and Lera Boroditsky on the National Geographic series Brain Games. Both segments captured the very heart of psychological science in
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Teaching Contentious Classics
Some of the most historic experiments in psychology used methods that today are consider unethical, if not cruel. So do they still belong in textbooks?
