Teaching All Children to Read: What the Evidence Shows
September 24th, 2026 ED_ON Author: Jaime Saavedra

Teaching All Children to Read: What the Evidence Shows

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PISA 2025 wipes out 20 years of progress by Portuguese students
September 8th, 2026 Iniciativa Educação Author: Iniciativa Educação

PISA 2025 wipes out 20 years of progress by Portuguese students

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A student can learn alone, but only after explicit instruction!
July 17th, 2026 ED_ON Author: Clermon Gauthier, Steve Bissonnette

A student can learn alone, but only after explicit instruction!

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Growth mindset and mathematical literacy
May 6th, 2026 ED_ON Author: Ludmila Nunes

Growth mindset and mathematical literacy

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How Morocco is improving student learning: the success of the Pioneer Schools
April 17th, 2026 ED_ON Author: Clermon Gauthier, Steve Bissonnette

How Morocco is improving student learning: the success of the Pioneer Schools

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Teaching All Children to Read: What the Evidence Shows
September 24th, 2026 ED_ON Author: Jaime Saavedra

Teaching All Children to Read: What the Evidence Shows

A recent report cites 151 studies covering a vast array of languages across four continents to confirm what science has been revealing: in order to teach children to read — regardless of geography — we must replace old pedagogical trends with methods backed by evidence and effective management processes.

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A student can learn alone, but only after explicit instruction!
July 17th, 2026 ED_ON Author: Clermon Gauthier, Steve Bissonnette

A student can learn alone, but only after explicit instruction!

Can students truly teach themselves? Evidence suggests that for independent learning to succeed, it must be built upon a rigorous foundation of explicit teaching. By automating fundamental operations and providing targeted feedback, educators can free up the cognitive space necessary for advanced problem-solving. This article contends that self-regulated learning must be the endpoint of a pedagogical journey rather than its origin.

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Growth mindset and mathematical literacy
May 6th, 2026 ED_ON Author: Ludmila Nunes

Growth mindset and mathematical literacy

How universal are the benefits of having a growth mindset? Believing that intelligence and cognitive ability are malleable can enhance academic success, but this seems to depend more on the context than on the student.

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How Morocco is improving student learning: the success of the Pioneer Schools
April 17th, 2026 ED_ON Author: Clermon Gauthier, Steve Bissonnette

How Morocco is improving student learning: the success of the Pioneer Schools

Moroccan Pioneer Schools have replaced intuition with evidence to achieve learning gains that turned around a looming educational crisis. Using a combination of explicit instruction and Teaching at the Right Level, paired with rigorously scripted pedagogy and solid digital monitoring, the program has quadrupled proficiency rates in one single year, providing an inspiring model for global educational reform.

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Teenagers’ social jet lag is not helping them
March 13th, 2026 ED_ON Author: Joana Rato

Teenagers’ social jet lag is not helping them

Sleep is essential for good health—especially during periods of intense neurological development, such as adolescence. And the research is clear: we shouldn’t just focus on weekdays.

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Science-based teaching practices improve reading skills, says the World Bank
January 30th, 2026 ED_ON Author: Iniciativa Educação

Science-based teaching practices improve reading skills, says the World Bank

A new international report shows that when effective, science-based teaching practices are adopted, reading levels can improve significantly, even in low- and middle-income countries.

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Want to speak better English? Watch movies with subtitles!
November 14th, 2025 ED_ON Author: Luciana Graça

Want to speak better English? Watch movies with subtitles!

A recently published international study shows that watching subtitled series and films, rather than dubbed ones, clearly and consistently improves English proficiency, especially in oral comprehension and expression, highlighting the importance of learning outside school.

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Scalability and long-term planning: the two major challenges facing early childhood education
September 15th, 2025 ED_ON Author: Pedro Freitas

Scalability and long-term planning: the two major challenges facing early childhood education

In recent decades, there has been an increase in scientific research on the impacts of investment in early childhood—a stage considered particularly effective in leveraging students' educational trajectories. However, there is still debate about the lasting impact of daycare and preschool on students' educational trajectories.

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Long vacations, small lessons
August 1st, 2025 ED_ON Author: Sofia Garcia da Silva

Long vacations, small lessons

For many students, summer vacation is the most eagerly awaited time of the year. But does vacation also bring with it the risk of forgetting what they have learned?

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Artificial intelligence in the classroom: a threat to learning
July 18th, 2025 ED_ON Author: Ludmila Nunes

Artificial intelligence in the classroom: a threat to learning

Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool, but its indiscriminate use, especially in educational contexts, seems to bring more risks than benefits. A recent study shows how the use of a tool similar to ChatGPT negatively affected mathematics learning in high school students.

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