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A Timeline of Social Studies Education in America

Edsurge

Source Information: 1820s ; 1898 ; 1960 ; 1916 ; 1921 ; 1929 / 1929 ; Late 40s - early 50s ; Late 50s - early 70s / Late 50s - early 70s ; 1965 ; 1980s ; 1983 ; 1994 ; 1999 ; 2001 ; 2005 ; 2010 ; 2013 ; 2012 - 2018 / 2012 - 2018 ; 2020.

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252: Does your school link STEM and Sports?

The Thinking Stick

Learn more about Jeff Golner: Prior to venturing on his own, Golner enjoyed a long marketing, game operations and entertainment career with the Arizona Diamondbacks from 1997 to 2005, leaving as Senior Director of Game Operations. Golner also served a three-year ticketing stint with the Colorado Rockies from 1994 to 1996.

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Gaming Builds Valuable Life Skills

EdNews Daily

Players are given the opportunity to choose based on their awareness, their knowledge of situational affordances (Buder & Bodemer, 2005). Bloom’s Taxonomy (Revised) shows that these higher-level thinking skills include understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001).

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Study: One-to-One Laptop Programs Improve Student Learning

Doug Levin

A total of ten (10) studies met the criteria for inclusion in the meta-analysis, meaning all ten studies: Were published in the English language after having gone through a formal peer review process; Were conducted between 2001 and 2015 (more specifically, the included studies were published between 2005 and 2012); Were conducted in K-12 school settings (..)

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PROOF POINTS: Criminal behavior rises among those left behind by school lotteries

The Hechinger Report

Three university economists studied the criminal justice records of 10,000 boys who were in fifth grade between 2005 and 2008. Charlotte introduced public school choice a few years after busing ended in 2001. Seats were allocated through a lottery. Fewer Black and Hispanic students were being admitted.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025), you are likely to have these traits: thoughtfulness and a profound sense of decision making, you mean what you say, a smart communicator, "you always have the facts to defend your what you think—and rarely back down." If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,

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How to Prevent the Summer Slide and Help Reduce Educational Inequality

Waterford

Scholastic Instructor, May 2005, 114(8), pp. Principal Journal, January 2001, 80(3), pp. Lundstrom, M. Stop the Summer Reading Slide. Krueger, A.B. Economic Scene; Vouchers for summer school could help halt the learning slide. Retrieved from nytimes.com: [link]. Summers Are for Learning. Green, A.M., Feldman, P., Baggett, P.,

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