Cognitive Processes

How to allocate study time
Why transfer is hard
Why students remember or forget
Why students think they understand when they don't
Why practice is important
Why people love and remember stories
Why knowledge is important
Critical thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach?
Why reading comprehension strategies are less useful than most people think
What will improve a student's memory?
What goes into mathematical thinking?
Motivation--role of praise
Motivation--role of rewards
Has technology changed how students think?
Can teachers increase students self-control?
Why does family wealth affect student outcomes?
The role of sleep in schooling and learning
Excerpt of Raising Kids Who Read
Can Reading Comprehension Be Taught?
How Do Manipulatives Help Students Learn?
Do students remember what they learn in school? 
"How to Teach Critical Thinking" written for the Dept. of Education, New South Wales, Australia

Evaluation of Theories

Teacher education and the need for a mental model of the learner
​Visual, auditory, kinesthetic learners
Another take on learning styles--2018
Brain-based learning
Using neuroscientific data in education theories
Multiple Intelligences
Developmentally appropriate practice
Mel Levine's A Mind at a Time
How should we think about student differences?
21st century skills
​Grit
​Must-haves and Could Dos in Educational Practice

Changes to Teacher Education of Ed Psychology (variants of the same set of ideas)
Article in Education Next
More technical (and more complete) article in Mind, Brain, Education
​In American Educator: Should Teachers Know the Basic Science of How Children Learn?
Podcast Interview
Audio from talk at ResearchEd