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How to Hold Effective Classroom Discussions

Waterford

It uses a classroom contract to keep the discussion respectful and encourages close-text analysis. Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth, 2003, 47, pp. December, 2013. Socratic circles can be a useful way to dig into a topic and discuss it at a deeper level than the usual class discussion.

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A Paradigm Shift

A Principal's Reflections

It all began around 2003 when the smartphone wars started with Blackberry, but was quickly taken over by the Apple iPhone in 2007. A holistic, multi-level analysis identifying the impact of classroom design on pupils' learning. The world continues to change as a result of technological advances. Barrett, P., Moffat,J., &

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A New Social Science? Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

TeachThought - Learn better.

Statistics Outgrows All Other STEM Fields From 2010-2013. Degree categories with a minimum of 200 completions in 2013 were included in the analysis. The ASA analysis showed undergraduate statistics degrees nearly doubled (95% growth rate) during the period spanning 2010 to 2013. Increase # of 2013.

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

Doug Levin

Consider this post (light on analysis, heavy on the archiving of primary source material) one for the wonks, students, and historians. FY 2003 $700,500,000. FY 2013 $0. The Effectiveness of Educational Technology: Issues and Recommendations for the National Study (Mathematica Policy Research, 2003). ” FY 2012 $0.

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Like their students, colleges are vastly increasing the amount they borrow

The Hechinger Report

The annual cost of servicing this accumulated debt more than doubled, from $21 billion in 2003 to $48 billion in 2012, the most recent period for which it has been calculated by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. We can only assume that institutions are doing an all-in cost analysis when making these decisions,” she said.

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New Orleans’ uphill battle for more black and homegrown teachers

The Hechinger Report

A Hechinger Report analysis of federal data shows that the number of education degrees handed out by New Orleans’ universities plummeted in the years after Hurricane Katrina. In 2003, New Orleans’ seven universities handed out 265 bachelor’s degrees in education, according to federal data. By 2014, they made up only 49 percent.

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Homework: Good or Bad? Here Is What Research Says

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

One of the most comprehensive research studies on homework is a meta-analysis done by professor Harris Cooper and his colleagues (2006) and published in the journal Review of Educational Research. In this study, Cooper et al analyzed a large pool of research studies on homework conducted in the United States between between 1987 and 2003.

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