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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Finally, somewhat for the sake of brevity, I have excluded consideration of the role of the E-rate (which is overseen by the Federal Communications Commission and not the U.S. FY 2001: $450,000,000. Legislative Authorization: Title II, Part D (Sections 2401-2422) of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

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The science of catching up

The Hechinger Report

A seminal 2016 study sorted through almost 200 well-designed experiments on improving education, from expanding preschool to reducing class size, and found that frequent one-to-one tutoring was especially effective in increasing learning rates for low-performing students. Not all tutoring has been successful. LOOKING AHEAD.

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10 Big Hurdles to Identifying and Educating the Nation’s Smartest Kids

MindShift

students are classified as “high achievers” in mathematics, according to the most recent international assessments. No Child Left Behind, the 2001 federal law, incentivizes “just getting kids over a bar,” Finn says. has three very bright granddaughters. educating its top performers? percent of U.S. ” 7.

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8 Ways to Help New Teachers Thrive (and Veteran Teachers Too!)

The CoolCatTeacher

K., & Bruegmann, E. The Learning Policy Institute says in their 2016 study, Well-designed mentoring programs improve retention rates for new teachers, as well as their attitudes, feelings of efficacy, and instructional skills.(32) 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24) 24) Jackson, C. 25) Kraft, M. A., & Papay, J.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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Does alternative grading make cheating more likely?

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

These kinds of questions that address the relationship of course design and structure and the likelihood of academic dishonesty, are the subject of this brief and useful paper, which we'll unpack today: Anderman, E. M., & Koenka, A. The Relation Between Academic Motivation and Cheating. Theory Into Practice, 56(2), 95–102.

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How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision

The Hechinger Report

North Smithfield Manor has long been zoned for Gardendale schools as part of the district’s integration efforts, and Williams had planned her life around sending her children to Gardendale High, where more than seven out of 10 graduates enroll in college—one of the highest rates in the district. You are trying to take that from them.

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