Why School Is Hard: 7 Invisible Traps That Make School Feel Impossible - SchoolHabits
Why is school hard? For most students, it's not for the obvious reasons. Instead, it's these 7 invisible traps that make school feel harder.| SchoolHabits
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. I must begin this article with something important: Studying is supposed to be hard. Learning something new and building the neural networks in our brain to store that information is a challenging process that is supposed to make us feel uncomfortable. ... Read More The post How to Make Studying Easier: 5 Study Rules Every Student Should Know appeared first on SchoolHabits.| SchoolHabits
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. There’s more to completing a single homework assignment than just sitting down and doing it. To complete a homework assignment from start to finish, and turn it in on time, four separate things need to happen. If there is a bottleneck ... Read More The post The Assignment Funnel: How Successful Students Finish Work on Time appeared first on SchoolHabits.| SchoolHabits
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Getting good grades in school is about way more than being smart. In fact, being smart doesn’t have much to do with it. Students with the highest grades tend to have the most efficient systems for doing school. When your systems ... Read More The post Better Notes, Better Grades: How Good Note-Taking Changes Everything appeared first on SchoolHabits.| SchoolHabits
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Some semesters are just harder than others. Maybe you’re taking more advanced courses, your professors are a little stricter, or you’re adding an internship or job to the mix (which is maxing out your time, making your semester feel harder as ... Read More The post How to Know If You’re Ready for a Hard Semester appeared first on SchoolHabits.| SchoolHabits
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. School can feel overwhelming for a million reasons, most of which have to do with the fact that school is hard. I’m dead serious. AP physics can feel challenging because AP physics is challenging. Advanced economics can feel difficult because advanced ... Read More The post 3 Unexpected Reasons School Feels So Overwhelming appeared first on SchoolHabits.| SchoolHabits
Why is school hard? For most students, it's not for the obvious reasons. Instead, it's these 7 invisible traps that make school feel harder.| SchoolHabits
Teachers are noticing that older readers need ongoing support to read materials used in their classrooms. In a study commissioned by the Advanced Education Research and Development Fund (AERDF), a national nonprofit, 44 percent of grade 3–8 teachers reported that their students always or nearly always have difficulty reading instructional materials.| eSchool News
Should you list weak grades on your CV? A large-scale study suggests leaving them out may actually improve your odds of landing an interview.| Study Finds
The UGA 2026 First Year application will be opening up on August 1 on the Common App, so here are a few things to know prior to it going live: Should a student apply Early Action (EA) or Regular Decision (RD)?: Ultimately, this question needs to be answered by you, the student/applicant. We treat […]| UGA Undergraduate Admissions
Grades (and institutional rankings) are currency for a capitalist system that reduces teaching and learning to a mere transaction. Grading is a massive co-ordinated effort to take humans out of the educational process.| Jesse Stommel
Even a system that invites subversiveness, like Domain of One's Own, can't single-handedly dismantle the institutionalized hierarchies of education.| Jesse Stommel
Without much critical examination, teachers accept they have to grade, students accept being graded, and none of us spend enough time thinking about the why, when, and whether of grades.| Jesse Stommel
Ungrading is not as simple as just removing grades. The word "ungrading" (an active present participle) suggests that we need to do intentional, critical work to dismantle traditional and standardized approaches to assessment.| Jesse Stommel
