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

eSchool News

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. Once on the inside, I experienced the NSA as a vibrant place that prioritized further education of its workforce.

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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., Department of Education guidelines (Boyce et al.,

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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. NCES has been administering the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam since 1969.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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

The Hechinger Report

There’s a general consensus among education researchers that smaller classes are more effective. (In When I have written about unrelated educational reforms, researchers often compare them to the effectiveness of class size reductions to give me a sense of their relative impact. In math, it found no benefits at all.

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Inspired by front-line health care workers, record numbers apply to medical schools

The Hechinger Report

So far in my lifetime, at least, and for as long as I’ve been in medical education, that’s the only comparison that I could make.”. I do think that the debt probably scares off some people,” said Goodell, who is also a former chair of the Council on Graduate Medical Education. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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How Mindfulness Can Help Teachers and Students Manage Challenging Situations

MindShift

Adolescents report more daily experience of negative affect from ages 10 to 18 (Larson, Moneta, Richards & Wilson, 2002) but have more difficulty identifying and sorting out their feelings of anger, sadness, fear, disgust, and upset compared to younger children and adults (Nook, Sasse, Lambert, McLaughlin & Somerville, 2018).