Tag: research
An audience-eye view of NBC’s Teacher Town Hall
By Guest Blogger on September 29th, 2010
If you’re a teacher, there’s a good chance you might have tuned in online or on MSNBC to Sunday’s Education Nation Teacher Town Hall — a conversation with teachers from across the country hosted by NBC Nightly News Anchor Brian Williams. Onemore… full post
2010 Kids & Family Reading Report results announced
By Scholastic on September 29th, 2010
Today, Scholastic announced the findings of the 2010 Kids & Family Reading Report, a national study of children age 6-17 and their parents. The study, conducted every two years, explores a wide range of topics around reading in the 21stmore… full post
Study: Access to books helps kids become better readers
By Tyler on September 21st, 2010
Access to print materials like books helps children read better, read more, and read with more enthusiasm. That’s the conclusion of an encouraging new report that was commissioned by Reading is Fundamental and released today. There’s nomore… full post
Search engine literacy
By Tyler on August 18th, 2008
Please excuse my geekiness here for a sec, but there’s something truly amazing and unbelievable about search engines. They’re so simple on the surface, yet incomprehensibly complex behind the screen. Enter two or three carefully chosen words and themore… full post
Summer fun can mean books AND movies
By Scholastic on June 23rd, 2008
Lately, we’ve been taking a look at the Scholastic 2008 Kids and Family Reading Report, focusing a lot on how technology and the Internet can enhance kids’ reading, rather than fight against it.I’ve been thinking about a couple of other non-digitalmore… full post
Study: Social networks give kids 21st Century skills
By Tyler on June 20th, 2008
News of a fascinating new study landed in my feed reader this morning, and I’ve been yapping about it ever since. Here’s what it says:MySpace, Facebook and similar social networking sites might actually be making today’s kids better learners, andmore… full post
Kids & Family Reading Report blog roundup
By Tyler on June 13th, 2008
The 2008 Kids & Family Reading Report has been on our minds here at Scholastic for most of this week. And, apparently, it’s been on the minds of edubloggers around the world as well. Dozens have posted on the report’s findings, and the coveragemore… full post
In Our Feeds
By Scholastic on May 6th, 2008
It’s been a while since we’ve shared some of the goodies we’re finding around the web…but in honor of Tuesday afternoon…reflections of our minds (and feeds): Via tilzy.tv, the awesome weekly science videos from Robert Krampf, “themore… full post
The Internet is Making Research Better
By Scholastic on March 26th, 2008
We think a lot about research here at Scholastic–particularly in conjunction with teaching kids the 21st Century Skills they’ll need in order to process information and critically think in our constantly changing world. We’re committed to helpingmore… full post
Math is awesome. Why didn’t anyone tell me?
By Scholastic on March 14th, 2008
Ok, so I should probably begin this post with a confession. I’m terrible at math. This is the sad truth. Don’t tell anyone, Internet. That said, my shortcoming is a major bonus for the math people in my life, however, because I honor and reveremore… full post
