A weekly collection of education-related news from around the web.

What Do 2,000+ People Most Remember About High School?

“Americans share many common high school experiences, especially four that each are shared by more than three-quarters. These are having a crush on someone, having a group of friends, taking a class they loved, and taking one they hated.”

How Americans Perceive The Size Of Minority Groups In America

“Americans tend to vastly overestimate the size of minority groups. This holds for sexual minorities.. It also applies to religious minorities.. And we find the same sorts of overestimates for racial and ethnic minorities… A parallel pattern emerges when we look at estimates of majority groups: People tend to underestimate rather than overestimate their size […]

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Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.

Readers include teachers, school leaders, university overseers, conference organizers, think tank workers, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and people who are simply interested in what’s happening in education. They say it helps them keep tabs on what matters most in the conversation surrounding schools, teaching, learning, and more.

Peter Nilsson

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