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Sep 17, 2024 | 
newamerica.org | Lisa Guernsey
Today New America is pleased to announce the fourth cohort of the Learning Sciences Exchange (LSX), a problem-solving platform that brings mid-career professionals together to generate new ideas for tackling tough issues in education. The LSX approach aims to break down silos among the fields of education leadership, entertainment, journalism, social-impact entrepreneurship, and research in the science of learning.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
youthtoday.org | Lisa Guernsey |Kathy Hirsh-Pasek |Roberta M. Golinkoff
We should make decisions about youth using technology after exploring three different perspectives.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
newamerica.org | Lisa Guernsey
People feel forced into binary camps of “ban tech” and “don’t ban tech.”But there is a way to reset the conversation that could help parents, educators and kids themselves make better choices about technology. As writers and researchers who focus on the science of learning, we see a gaping hole in the debate thus far. The problem is that decision-makers keep relying on only two sets of questions and data: One set focuses on questions about how youth are feeling (not so great).
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May 28, 2024 | 
hechingerreport.org | Lisa Guernsey |Kathy Hirsh-Pasek |Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
Clouds of doom continue to hover over the debate about teens’ mental health and the role of technology. This spring, the warnings come from the bestselling book “The Anxious Generation” by sociologist Jonathan Haidt. Some parents and educators are calling for a ban on smartphones and laptops in schools. Others are trying to press pause on the panic by pointing to research that needs a longer look.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
newamerica.org | Lisa Guernsey
Stories of American history have always shaped the way students learn and teachers teach, but the advent of digital media has brought far more possibilities—not to mention questions about how to teach forgotten history, reveal hidden stories, and elevate new voices. Next week at SXSW EDU in Austin, TX, New America’s Education Policy program will be discussing an unusual local-to-national project that explores these questions.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
newamerica.org | Lisa Guernsey
Editor’s note: This is part of a video interview series that illuminates the little-known story of the Alexandria Library sit-in of 1939. These in-depth interviews with researchers and community members not only add to the historical record—they can also deepen today's discussions of exclusion and inclusion in public libraries and schools. For years, very few people outside of the African American community in Alexandria, VA, had heard of the library sit-in of 1939.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
newamerica.org | Lisa Guernsey
Editor’s note: This is part of a video interview series that illuminates the little-known story of the Alexandria Library sit-in of 1939. These in-depth interviews with researchers and community members not only add to the historical record—they can also deepen today's discussions of exclusion and inclusion in public libraries and schools. Michael Johnson was born on November 13, 1956, into a city segregated by race.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
newamerica.org | Lisa Guernsey
Editor’s note: This is part of a video interview series that illuminates the little-known story of the Alexandria Library sit-in of 1939. These in-depth interviews with researchers and community members not only add to the historical record—they can also deepen today's discussions of exclusion and inclusion in public libraries and schools. Rose Dawson has been the executive director of the Alexandria Library since 2008—the first African American to hold that position.
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Mar 20, 2023 | 
newamerica.org | Lisa Guernsey
Most education experts agree that teaching a subject requires more than just introducing students to a collection of books and videos and testing them on what they picked up. Instructional materials and instruction itself should be sequenced as building blocks.[2] Ideally, resources should be organized into a comprehensive curriculum, with units of study that match grade levels and are aligned with academic standards set by states and the national organizations for those subjects.
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Mar 20, 2023 | 
newamerica.org | Lisa Guernsey
Note: This is the second of a two-part series. Part 1 can be found here. Teaching any subject has its challenges, but getting students to care about history is a special case. In an age of live-streamed news and celebrity tweets, the events and uprisings of the past are, by definition, old news.
