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Whole-Class Novel: To Read or Not to Read...Together

Ariel Sacks, a New York City-based English Language Arts teacher who works with middle school students in grades seven through nine, has a busy...

Twitter 101: Joining Twitter Chats

This is the fourth installment in Lexia's five-post Twitter 101 series. Read the first, second, and third installments.
 In the education...

Helpful Tips for Welcoming Immigrant Families to School

According to data compiled by the Pew Research Center, the number of immigrant families in the United States has been rising steadily since a quota...

Help! How Do I Meet the Needs of All Students?

A 2018 survey by EdMarketer—the marketing and research division of the online education news outlet Education Week—found that meeting the needs of...

Could a DNA Test Help Students with Dyslexia? Researchers Want to Know

A 2018 post on the online education news site Education Week recently posed an intriguing question: “What if a DNA test could show how to teach a...

Want to Improve Adolescent Literacy Rates? Consider Implementing a Multimodal Approach to Learning

Many modern-day teachers and education researchers are focused on an important topic: how to improve adolescent literacy rates. One framework that...

4 Emerging Trends in Educational Technology for 2018

Each year, it is exciting to take a look at the emerging trends in education and speculate on how edtech will continue to impact student learning in...

Making the Case for EdTech: What Administrators, Parents, and Students Should Know

A growing number of educators across America are embracing educational technology in the classroom—and loving the difference it makes for their...

Social Emotional Learning is Here—Now What?

When the federal No Child Left Behind law was enacted in 2002, a new era of test-based accountability took root in the nation’s public schools. This...

Efficacy in Educational Technology: Guidelines for Evaluating What Really Works

Many educators know the struggle of helping students identify reliable sources of information. At a time when virtually any information can be found...

Small Data and Big Data: Educators Need Both to See the Full Picture

In the spring of 2016, Finnish education expert Pasi Sahlberg and Boston-based writer Jonathan Hasak wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post....

Rethinking Accountability in the Post-No Child Left Behind Era

For more than a dozen years, “accountability” has meant one thing in public education: test scores. In 2001, the federal No Child Left Behind...