The education landscape has changed dramatically in the wake of Covid-19. Many traditional indicators of student success have been thwarted, and for high school seniors in particular, this has caused panic over how they will be evaluated in the college admissions process. School districts across the US are assigning students pass/fail grades (or in some […] … learn more→

Faced with the pandemic in which we find ourselves on a global scale, from the sociology of education we have coordinated an exploratory study that has just been published and which pays special attention to the voice of educational and social agents. It is about knowing how they are perceiving and experiencing, mainly students and families, an […] … learn more→

The sudden, nationwide transition to remote learning that swept the US in mid-March quickly revealed the inequities among students, faculty and institutions. A month later, these inequities persist. Universities and colleges are tightening their belts as refunds flow to students sent home in the middle of the spring semester and institutions brace themselves for lower enrolments amid what is expected to […] … learn more→

The unprecedented health crisis we are facing will have a singular impact on the class, with the widespread introduction of masks. Hiding the face of teachers and their students is likely to be a major factor of instability in the didactic relationship. It is necessary to be aware of this to anticipate the difficulties that all will […] … learn more→

When I first envisioned a phone app to replace the physical college campus tour, it was a way to enable rural students and those who aren’t wealthy to visit campuses without having to travel to get there. As state director of a federally funded initiative that helps young people prepare for college, I realized virtual reality was […] … learn more→

We in the education sector are, for once, in the same boat as everyone else during the coronavirus pandemic. We are trying to understand the immediate impacts of the virus on how we do business, while also trying to predict and pre-empt what universities will look when the lockdowns end. How will our campuses feel? […] … learn more→

With the spread of digital technologies and the massive use of computers, there is a great temptation to abandon handwriting in favor of the keyboard. However, research conducted in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience shows that handwriting is a cognitive resource and tool , which facilitates learning, unlike the keyboard. Thus, in kindergarten students, the writing gesture (or graphomotor gesture) […] … learn more→

Education policy for schools in the UK has become more and more focused around performance. The expectation is that students reach milestones of understanding and learning in each subject. This means that almost a third of young people – those that do not meet these milestones – are effectively written off as also-rans at 16. Further education colleges […] … learn more→

Conferences are a major part of an academic life, of researcher lives, for networking and many other reasons. Often, conferences are where we connect with others in our discipline or methodological community, where we meet people, make contacts, expand our thinking, or where we share our research and our developing ideas. But with the advent […] … learn more→

Younger Australians will bear the economic, social and environmental costs that come from the COVID-19 pandemic. They’re making sacrifices in the name of public health and to protect the old and vulnerable. The heavy lifting of rebuilding will also fall disproportionately to them. Prime Minister Scott Morrison referred to these sacrifices as “a social contract”. […] … learn more→