Pathways to Postsecondary Success
Pathways to Postsecondary Success, a project of UC/ACCORD, is a five-year set of mixed-methods studies focused on maximizing opportunities for low-income youth to earn higher education credentials. With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the project aims to advance research on poverty; produce useful tools that improve educational opportunities and inform the U.S. policy agenda on the relationship between poverty and education.… Read More ›
Universal Design for Learning
National Center on Universal Design for Learning Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. UDL provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone–not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for… Read More ›
Measuring Student Engagement in Upper Elementary Through High School
This 2011 report from The Regional Education Laboratory SouthEast (REL Southeast) identifies tools for measuring student engagement in upper elementary through high school. These instruments were pulled from a variety of disciplines and assess the behavioral, emotional, and/or cognitive nature of engagement. They are divided into three types: Student self-report questionnaires at either the school or class level… Read More ›
How Youth Learn: Ned’s GR8 8 Video
If you’re a teenage speaker brought in to address a crowd of teachers on the subject of how you and your peers learn best . . . what are you going to say? In this funny and fast-paced “NED talk” produced by What Kids Can Do (WKCD), Ned knocks out eight powerful conditions of learning that… Read More ›
Mind, Brain and Education
What does brain research tell us about how we learn and how learning, in turn, shapes the architecture of the brain? What is the connection between the stress of poverty and the impact of emotions on learning? To answer such questions, this paper draws on recent brain research and research in cognitive science, highlighting the… Read More ›
“A Girl Like Me” – Kiri Davis, Student, Urban Academy (2005)
This film was submitted to meet the Urban Academy’s Creative Arts Proficiency – one of the six performance assessments required for graduation. It has won numerous awards and was selected for the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. An excellent example of student work and voice. Watch the video