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Math Problems that Unlock Student Thinking

The CoolCatTeacher

Artwork submissions for this free youth art contest are accepted this year from November 1, 2019, through January 31, 2020. Toyota Dream Car Art Contest invites youth, ages 4-15, to submit their original hand-drawn artworks that answer the question, “If you could design a car to make the world a better place, what would it look like?”

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The Science Behind Spatial-Temporal Math

MIND Research Institute

Games have the potential to be perceived as an enjoyable and fun activity and, with that, might provide a preferred means to teach math (Bragg, 2003). 2014, 2019). 2014, 2019). Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia , 160–167. and 0.35, respectively.

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This Neuroscientist Wants to Know Your Brain On Art—and How It Improves Learning

Edsurge

So I connected with people who run the Learning and the Brain conference and began to attend. My first book was in 2003 (1*), and that book was all about connecting research with effective teaching. We published two randomized controlled trials, one in 2014 and then the second one in 2019. There's so much more acceptance.

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Teacher licensing rules are one reason small schools don’t have enough teachers

The Hechinger Report

In early 2019, Wilson was ready to hire Anderson, who plans to stay in Montana for the foreseeable future, to teach sixth grade full-time. In fall 2019, with her studies still ongoing, she took over Greenfield’s sixth-grade classroom. He even had one available: The sixth-grade teacher was set to retire at the end of the school year.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

Without measurement, there is no pressure for improvement,” he said in a 2009 speech to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Georgia State’s student newspaper, The Signal, devoted a special April 2019 issue to how administrators were monitoring student data. January 16, 2019. Photo: Jill Barshay/Hechinger Report.

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

in theoretical physics, he retired in 2019 as Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England, after 13 years there including a year in 2012 as Visiting Professor at MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. airing on Discovery in 2020.) Roger Schank Chairman and CEO, Socratic Arts Roger Schank.