thinking about education
Last week, I blogged about the report out of Chicago that shows that intensive test prep may have actually led to lower scores for students on the ACT test. This morning, I opened US News & World Report and found their description of a a new study from Stanford University that what appears to work [...]
I think I may be one of the book-loving technophiles that John Hendron wrote about in this post. In fact, I spent most of yesterday morning culling and organizing my books. There are two boxes of hard backs to go to the library and two boxes of paperbacks to go to my exchange [...]
So, here’s the article from the the Boston Globe reporting findings of a recent study of infants and educational videos. The article seems to suggest a cause/effect relationship between watching videos and a reduction in vocabulary. They interview one of the researchers. “I would rather babies watch ‘American Idol’ than these videos,” [...]