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How the NSA’s post-9/11 hiring might address the teacher shortage

eSchool News

I am not a native speaker and I had not been in a classroom for a few years. When I raised my right hand on June 16, 2002 and swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, I learned that I was a part of the first class of new post-9/11 hires. A month later I was flown there to have my language skills tested.

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The Science Behind Spatial-Temporal Math

MIND Research Institute

Research investigating how such fear develops suggests that a lack of motivational or cognitive support paired with a high demand for correctness from the teacher can lead to students avoiding math probably because they want to avoid showing incompetence in class (Ashcraft, 2002; Turner et al., Summary of Efficacy. References: Ashcraft, M.

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Despite popularity with parents and teachers, review of research finds small benefits to small classes

The Hechinger Report

A small classroom in Richton, Mississippi. In 2002, the debate about the merits of small class sizes erupted into a public spat between Eric Hanushek of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and Alan Kreuger of Princeton University. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Small classes are very popular with parents.

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How Can a Student Be ‘Proficient’ in One State But Not Another? Here Are the Graphs

Edsurge

When No Child Left Behind passed back in 2002, Congress enthusiastically proclaimed that 100 percent of American students would be proficient in reading and math by 2014. They then estimated NAEP equivalent scores for the exams and mapped the outcomes onto a graph depicting how their proficiency levels measured in comparison.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

When I worked at Microsoft back in 2002, our team basically invented the idea of Google Classroom (it was called Microsoft Class Server), but we were twelve years too early and the product disappeared by 2006. Last year, only 25,000 Americans graduated from bootcamps, in comparison to two million bachelors degrees awarded.

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How Mindfulness Can Help Teachers and Students Manage Challenging Situations

MindShift

Excerpted from “ Mindfulness in the Secondary Classroom: A Guide for Teaching Adolescents ,” (c) 2019 by Patricia C. Some of the very real challenges of life and the classroom are ill-?defined Social media offers a ready platform for comparing oneself to others, a process called social comparison. cut answers.

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Schools in the poorest state become even poorer

The Hechinger Report

By comparison, the national average is about 20.4 The challenge with persistently low funding is to make cuts while minimizing the effect on the classroom, said Cormack, of the Barksdale Reading Institute. We cannot teach 21st-century learners in the 20th-century classroom,” he said. The currency change happened in 2002.