kitchen table math, the sequel

Update here .

I was thinking the incredible results people find with retrieval practice sounded too good to be true, and now I'm worried they are: ...

I'm reading Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel's Make It Stick  in a mixed state of trepidation and fascination. Trepidation because th...

More on the Matrix-type memory downloads Video here As I understand it, in Shibata & c.'s experiment subjects learned 'X...

William L. Heward 's list: Structured curricula impede true learning. Teaching discrete skills trivializes education and ignores the...

Explicit (Declarative) Implicit (Procedural) facts and experiences skills and habits, priming, classical conditioning knowled...

A couple of months ago, I exchanged emails with Vicky on the subject of Khan Academy and the flipped classroom : We are not wired to sit ...

excerpt from: The Learning-Centered Principal by Richard DuFour Educational Leadership - May 2002 When I entered the principalship a qua...

re: C's and my apparent learning "spike ," here are Frank E. Ritter and Lael J. Schooler on the learning curve: Most tasks ge...

As I mentioned the other day , C. and I have suddenly jumped a good 50 points in our math scores on Blue Book tests . On April 6, C. misse...