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Common sense a prerequisite for brilliance

News Herald - Juliann Talkington Do high standardized test scores [...]

October 25th, 2017|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Performance, Accountability, ACT, Active Learning, Adolescence, Athletics, Behavior, Child Development, Children, Critical Thinking, Education, Extracurricular Activities, High School, Independence, Job skills, Juliann Talkington, Leadership, Logical Thinking, Overparenting, Parent talk, Parental Involvement, Parenting, Parents, Perseverance, SAT, Self-discipline, Skills, Social Skills, Soft skills, Student Engagement, Students, success, Talkington, Teens, Test Scores, Testing, Time Management, Work Ethic|Tags: Education, School|

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Get rid of the education bureaucracy and kids’ hearts will sing

News Herald - Juliann Talkington It's technology married with liberal [...]

July 11th, 2016|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Performance, Accountability, Children, College and Career Readiness, Education, Education system, Innovation, Juliann Talkington, K-12, Learning, Performance, Private School, School, School Choice, School Policy, School readiness, School Voucher, Skills, Standards, STEM, Students, Talkington, Testing, United States, United States (U.S.), Vouchers|Tags: Education, School|

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Five reasons to embrace the class quiz, according to cognitive science

TES - Megan Smith "Quizzes and tests help students to [...]

May 27th, 2016|Categories: Academic Performance, Attendance, Learning, Quiz, Students, Study, Teacher, Teaching, Testing|Tags: Education, School|

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Pisa tests to include ‘global skills’ and cultural awareness

BBC - Andreas Schleicher "Pisa tests, an international standard for [...]

May 25th, 2016|Categories: Cultural Intelligence, Diversity, Global, Global Competence, Globalized World, Interconnected world, Intercultural Skills, International, PISA, Testing|Tags: Education, School|

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5 Misconceptions About the Redesigned SAT

The Huffington Post - Chuck Cohn "The College Board, who [...]

March 11th, 2016|Categories: SAT, Students, Study, Testing|Tags: Education, School|

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Why It’s Best To Take Tests Early In The Day

Forbes - Carmen Nobel "On average, students perform best on [...]

February 25th, 2016|Categories: Academic Performance, Recess, School, School day, Students, Testing|Tags: Education, School|

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Is more physical education at school linked to higher student math scores?

The Washington Post - Perry Stein "The amount of time [...]

February 10th, 2016|Categories: Academic Performance, Health, Math, Mathematics, Physical Activity, Physical Education, Testing, Washington, D.C.|Tags: Education, School|

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State Test Results Are Getting Closer To Student Achievement On NAEP

Achieve - Staff Writer "In 2015, we first released this [...]

February 5th, 2016|Categories: Academic Achievement, Education, NAEP, Parents, Standards, States, Students, Teacher, Test Scores, Testing|Tags: Education, School|

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Texting In The Dark Hits Student Grades

Forbes - Nick Morrison "Students who text in the dark [...]

January 27th, 2016|Categories: Academic Performance, Brain, Health, Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Smartphones, Students, Teens, Testing, Texting|Tags: Education, School|

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Third party, curriculum-based testing, the wave of the future?

News Herald - Juliann Talkington Studies suggest that the process [...]

December 28th, 2015|Categories: Curriculum, Education, Exam, Juliann Talkington, K-12, Performance, School, Talkington, Teacher, Teacher Accountability, Teacher Evaluations, Testing|Tags: Education, School|

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