Hint: Properly Designed Small-Group Instruction Can Address Students’ Need for Interpersonal Contact and Enhance their Engagement in On-line Learning — In addition to all the other challenges created by COVID-19, children and adolescents are suffering from increasingly prolonged restrictions on social contact, including widespread school closures, which has relegated students to learning at home in physical isolation from one another. A recent review of 63 studies involving 51,576 students found…

Hint: It’s the pedagogy as much as the curriculum! Despite landmark judicial victories such as Brown vs. Board of Education, our educational system remains racially segregated, even more than would be expected based upon neighborhood segregation (Orfield et al., 2016; Reardon & Owens, 2014; Sohoni & Saporito, 2009). Similarly, school-based…