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Learn Better
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Learn Better

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-03-07
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  • Publisher: Rodale

For centuries, experts have argued that learning was about memorizing information: You're supposed to study facts, dates, and details, burn them into your memory, and then apply that knowledge at opportune times. But this approach to learning isn’t nearly enough for the world that we live in today, and in Learn Better journalist and education researcher Ulrich Boser demonstrates that how we learn can matter just as much as what we learn. In this brilliantly researched book, Boser maps out the new science of learning, showing how simple techniques like comprehension check-ins and making material personally relatable can help people gain expertise in dramatically better ways. He covers six k...

The Leap
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 181

The Leap

Best-selling author Ulrich Boser explores how we and the institutions we rely on have much to gain from emphasizing and rebuilding trust.

Summary of Ulrich Boser's Learn Better
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

Summary of Ulrich Boser's Learn Better

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 We all have a tendency to connect activities with meaning. This is crucial for learning, as it is hard to learn something if we don’t see any value in it. Meaning is the first step in understanding. #2 The value of meaning is rooted in the brain, and it is something we create. We find our own value in the world, and it serves as a means of perspective, a frame of mind, and an attitude that makes something either wonderfully important or devoid of all significance. #3 To help students find value in statistics, Hulleman had them write essays explaining why statistics was relevant to their lives. The outcomes were clear: by drawing a connection between their lives and statistics, the students became much more motivated in their studies. #4 The more we know about something, the more we want to know about it. We want to understand our world, and we want to see value. Meaning becomes self-perpetuating.

Learn Better
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Learn Better

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-03
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  • Publisher: Rodale Books

For centuries, experts have argued that learning was about memorizing information: You're supposed to study facts, dates, and details; burn them into your memory; and then apply that knowledge at opportune times. But this approach to learning isn’t nearly enough for the world that we live in today, and in Learn Better journalist and education researcher Ulrich Boser demonstrates that how we learn can matter just as much as what we learn. In this brilliantly researched book, Boser maps out the new science of learning, showing how simple techniques like comprehension check-ins and making material personally relatable can help people gain expertise in dramatically better ways. He covers six k...

Chasing Aphrodite
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 397

Chasing Aphrodite

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-05-24
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  • Publisher: HMH

A “thrilling, well-researched” account of years of scandal at the prestigious Getty Museum (Ulrich Boser, author of The Gardner Heist). In recent years, several of America’s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. Why would they be moved to such unheard-of generosity? The answer lies at the Getty, one of the world’s richest and most troubled museums, and scandalous revelations that it had been buying looted antiquities for decades. Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and candid interviews, these two journalists give us a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museu...

Trust-Based Observations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 215

Trust-Based Observations

The results are in: observations are not improving teaching and learning. Pertinently, the Gates Foundation’s recently completed effort to improve student outcomes through enhancing the teacher evaluation process failed to achieve substantive improvement. The way observations are currently designed serve as an obstacle to teacher risk-taking. Teachers fear negative evaluations when their pedagogy is rated, and they lack faith in being supported by supervisors because a trusting relationship between them and their observer has not been built. Trust-Based Observations: Maximizing Teaching and Learning Growth is a schema changing evaluation model that understands people perform at their best ...

A Federal Right to Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 390

A Federal Right to Education

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-06-13
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

How the United States can provide equal educational opportunity to every child The United States Supreme Court closed the courthouse door to federal litigation to narrow educational funding and opportunity gaps in schools when it ruled in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez in 1973 that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to education. Rodriguez pushed reformers back to the state courts where they have had some success in securing reforms to school funding systems through education and equal protection clauses in state constitutions, but far less success in changing the basic structure of school funding in ways that would ensure access to equitable and adequate fundi...

How Learning Happens
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

How Learning Happens

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Routledge

"How Learning Happens introduces 28 giants of educational research and their findings on how we learn and what we need to learn effectively, efficiently and enjoyably. Many of these works have inspired researchers and teachers all around the world and have left a mark on how we teach today"--

This Book Will Not Be on the Test
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 157

This Book Will Not Be on the Test

The problem with higher education today is that colleges are not transparent about their students’ academic lives, so families don’t know what their students should experience or accomplish in college. This book is part on-the-ground college insider tell-all memoir and part study skills Bible. It’s brutally honest, relatable, and entirely free of jargon, and alerts parents to a huge problem in American education today – that high school doesn’t prepare students to thrive in college. Offering explicit study skills solutions for the academic, financial, and mental health problems caused by this unfortunate reality, this book helps students, parents, teachers, and administrators have ...

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 104

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge

A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughs A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus on the most identifiable and urgent problems, right? Actually, it doesn't. In his classic essay "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge," Abraham Flexner, the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the man who helped bring Albert Einstein to the United States, describes a great paradox of scientific rese...