Education is a process of imparting knowledge. It is typically associated with the formal, systematic process that includes schools and trained teachers, but also includes the informal "word-of-mouth" method where knowledge is imparted through the telling of stories and folk-tales.
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Do graduates from private secondary schools perform better in college than graduates from public schools?
I attended private schools from kindergarten through secondary school and was often told by the faculty that students who attended private schools got a better education, one that made them more prepared for college, than a public school education…
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Did Massachusetts have a higher literacy rate before compulsory schooling?
As per the title. This claim was made in the book "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling" by John Taylor Gatto. He makes numerous dubious claims, however this one interested me most (p. 67):
A Massachusetts Senator said a…
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Are classrooms with students of the same age a counter-productive way to learn?
Sir Kenneth Robinson in one of his speeches raised doubts about educating children according to their age group.
A summation of the claim, that starts at 06:34 of the video, is that our current system of education is modelled on the interests and…
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Is Roberto Nevilis the inventor of homework?
There is a claim that Roberto Nevilis invented homework in 1905 (sic). And it doesn't seem to be a recent meme - there are tons of pics for this meme claiming:
The person who invented homework was an Italian teacher named Roberto Nevilis. He…
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Are colleges/universities conspiring with book publishers to inflate prices of textbooks?
This video (2:16 to 2:55) makes several rather serious claims in the intro, although it is somewhat believable.
The primary claims are that colleges and universities:
Conspire with book publishers to produce custom textbooks which change…
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Are commercial language proficiency tests reliable indicators of language skills?
In my university, you must take TOEFL in order to graduate. It is not cheap. My English composition teacher told me that the test doesn't represent real English skills. But I got even more shocked when I discovered that those tests are created by a…
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Do older school textbooks detract from the quality of education?
During the First Presidential Debate (October 3, 2012) I heard Barack Obama mention "10 year old textbooks" in a negative way.
It means that the teacher that I met in Las Vegas, wonderful young lady, who describes to me -- she's got 42 kids in her…
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Did textbooks rejected by the Florida DoE contain social-emotional learning or critical race theory?
The Florida department of Education recently claimed to have rejected a number of mathematics textbooks because, the department claimed, they contained elements of Common Core, critical race theory, and social-emotional learning:
The approved list…
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Do masters degrees in education improve teaching performance?
Bill Gates makes the claim that Masters degrees don't increase the ability of teachers in his TED talk.
What are the characteristics of this top quartile? What do they look like? You might think these must be very senior teachers. And the answer is…
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Do individuals rise to the level expected of them?
In "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", Stephen Covey gives an anecdote about a computer error in England in which a group of 'bright' students are accidentally labelled as 'dumb' and a group of 'dumb' students are labelled as 'bright'.
The…
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Do performance based scholarships increase grade inflation?
For instance, in this wikipedia there is the (un-cited) criticism that a specific scholarship has led to grade inflation.
HOPE has been blamed for increased levels of grade inflation in Georgia schools, with teachers feeling pressured to give their…
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Does practicing writing essays make you better at writing essays?
We've all written innumerable essays from middle school onwards. All teachers appear convinced that this will improve students' essay writing skills. However, when trying to find out what this belief is based on, I found only a single study where…
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Importance of teacher diversity in closing the achievement gap?
The Need for a Diverse Teaching Staff
"It is also important to expose children to a diverse teaching staff within each of our schools. Every child has a basic right to a great public school with a qualified and caring staff, including educators who…
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Is school homework beneficial?
I think it’s safe to say that conventional wisdom holds that homework is a helpful part of children’s school education.
This conventional wisdom is challenged by the likes of Alfie Kohn who contend that there’s no evidence of the benefit of…
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Is generic creativity and critical thinking impossible to teach or assess?
In the article 'Growth mindset' just another platitude published by the Center for independent studies, the author makes the claim that
Generic creativity or critical-thinking skills are practically
impossible to teach or assess.
Is this true?…
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