Lasting Impact: A Business Leader’s Playbook for Supporting America’s Schools
This booklet from the Harvard Business School examines how America’s business leaders do, and should, support the nation’s educators, our educational system, and ultimately our students. Researchers start with the “do” question: in the past and today, how do business leaders engage with education? Included are examples drawn from across the country and from diverse… 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 ›
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 ›