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What Your School Needs to Know About Trauma-Informed Practices

Waterford

Children & Schools, April 2013, 35(2), pp. Children’s exposure to violence: A comprehensive national survey. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2003, 12(2), pp. Results from the 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Mental Health Findings. Walkley, M., and Cox, T.L. Phifer, L.W.,

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To Build Voice Recognition for Early Literacy, Soapbox Labs Gives Kids a Voice

Edsurge

In 2003, a team of Harvard University researchers concluded a survey and mapped out the idiosyncrasies in the pronunciation of common English words across the globe. Standing on a Soapbox Those shortcomings spurred her to start SoapBox Labs in 2013 and develop voice recognition technology built specifically for children aged 3 to 12.

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Shocking data reveals Millennials lacking skills across board

eSchool News

In 2013, the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies ( PIAAC ) released the first-ever global data on how the U.S. adults when compared with results from previous adult surveys.”. are attaining higher levels of education since 2003, the numeracy scores of U.S. Since 2003, the percentages of U.S.

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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

The Hechinger Report

It gave states a deadline of the 2013-14 academic year to have 100 percent of their students demonstrating proficiency in reading, writing and math — a noble, if statistically improbable, goal. But scores dipped in almost all grades and subject areas on the 2015 test compared with 2013. Indeed, a 2013 report from the U.S

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

techlearning

Connections in Championing, Coaching, and Mentoring In an effort to understand why teachers continue to teach in a challenging career I once conducted a survey of 75 Middle School teachers asking them to identify why they stayed in their profession.13I New York: Free, 2003. 2013, [link]. How do rubrics change satisfaction?

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College students begin to cry foul about paying more for sports

The Hechinger Report

Told how much of what they paid in fees was going toward athletics, more than 90 percent of students at schools in the Mid-American Conference said in a 2014 survey that they were against the fee or wanted it reduced. Student fees —where athletic subsidizes are often hidden — have been rising even faster than tuition.

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What Kids Need for Optimal Health and School Engagement

MindShift

Activities such as sports, visual and performing arts, community service, journalism, and academic clubs can be sources for positive playtime for teenagers (Mahoney, Cairns, & Farmer, 2003;Mahoney, Larson, & Eccles, 2005). 2013; National Sleep Foundation, 2006). How much is too much?