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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Understanding and effectively leveraging this aspect of cognition is vital for educators in creating effective, responsive, and inclusive teaching strategies that build upon what learners already know and guide them towards deeper understanding and higher levels of academic achievement.

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Learning Technologies and Creativity in the Classroom

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If newer technologies can foster creativity in students then educators must seriously think about how they can incorporate them into their classroom teaching strategies. Dropout rates increase, test and project scores dip, and – worst of all – learning becomes synonymous with boredom. Creativity and the classroom.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year. It’s a long road of recovery.” Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

And many educators, both in high school and college, had trouble accurately assessing their students’ progress. Patterson suspects it’s more difficult to assess students’ understanding of the class material with remote tests and quizzes, where students often can consult more resources. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

Her disability doesn’t mean she can’t analyze and discuss a text; she can be taught strategies to help her decode words more easily. She said she never got the help she needed or was taught strategies to work on comprehension. With these strategies in place, McLaughlin said, Michael was able to focus and comprehend more when reading.

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One Year After Uvalde, a Reminder That ‘Trauma Has Tentacles’

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Vona is co-founder of the Center for Safe and Resilient Schools, an organization that helps schools develop prevention and intervention strategies as well as long-term recovery approaches following traumatic events, such as a mass shooting or a natural disaster. You can think about these concentric circles kind of stemming out from the site.

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NYC’s bold gamble: Spend big on impoverished students’ social and emotional needs to get academic gains

The Hechinger Report

The school has struggled to stem sliding enrollment and to address poor safety ratings by parents and test scores that were among the worst in the city. The timeline for academic turnaround and attendance improvement is very short,” said Robin Veenstra-VanderWeele, the chief strategy officer at Partnership with Children. “In

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