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Is Proficiency Testing Assessing the Real Thing?

Assessment & Intelligence, Gerald GabrielBy Gerald GabrielApril 1, 2022

Christy Bosch, curriculum coordinator at Ohio’s Logan-Hocking School District, is in charge of creating a course of study that will not only best educate the students of that district, but will also enable them to succeed on Ohio’s Graduation Proficiency Test. The test—a recent upgrade from the Ninth Grade Proficiency Test used for the last…

Playing the Piano Might Make You Smarter

Gerald Gabriel, Other Educational Issues, Thinking & Problem SolvingBy Gerald GabrielMarch 1, 2022

We’ve seen no small amount of hoopla over the suggestion, first made in the journal Nature in 1993, that listening to Mozart might improve spatial-temporal reasoning abilities. This news set off a series of events that might best be described as a sort of hysteria. What came to be known as the Mozart Effect was…

Sleeping In: Teens’ Circadian Clocks Keep Their Own Time. Should Schools Adapt?

Gerald Gabriel, Other Educational Issues, SleepBy Gerald GabrielNovember 1, 2021

“There are always some students who can’t get the motor running,” says Gregory Downs, an instructor at DePaul University and former high school teacher. “Some of them have been up until one in the morning, and they struggle to be alert. Others go to sleep at a normal hour but need 10 or 12 hours…

Take Two: Lessons Learned from Twins Research

Child Development, Gerald Gabriel, Reading & LanguageBy Gerald GabrielOctober 1, 2021

Few scenarios have seemed more promising for the unraveling of human mystery than the research pot of gold that many believe identical twins to be. Unlike the rest of the actual, messy human world, monozygotic twins represent an almost perfect study-in-the-making: two identical copies of the same genetic makeup placed into the world at nearly…

Afraid to Leave Mom: Separation Anxiety in Children

Child Development, Gerald Gabriel, Mood DisordersBy Gerald GabrielJuly 1, 2021

Many children eagerly enter their first classroom excited and a little nervous. It is perfectly natural, after all, to feel jittery when confronting something so new as school. But some children come bearing more than a normal amount of trepidation; some, in fact, are deathly afraid of saying good bye to their mothers. “I had…

No Learning without Peace

Gerald Gabriel, Other Educational IssuesBy Gerald GabrielMay 1, 2021

In the relatively short time since the massacre at Columbine High School in April 1999, the incident has grown to embody the need for educational and gun-control reform in the United States. But it has also focused attention on how dangerous and stressful places schools can be—and not just the ones in which children are…

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