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PROOF POINTS: There is a worldwide problem in math and it’s not just about the pandemic

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That’s the case with the most recent results from a key global education test, the Program for International Student Assessment or PISA. But the most recent rankings, released in December 2023, indicated that U.S. math scores recorded in the history of the PISA math test, which began in 2003. These were the lowest U.S.

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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

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Cordi, Thomas Schreiner, and Björn Rasch (2023), prior knowledge is seen as a pre-existing understanding that influences memory consolidation during sleep. They categorize prior knowledge into declarative and procedural types, assessing their influence on students’ success in university science courses. Sandmann, A., Sures, B.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. Retrieved from: [link] Further readings 21st Century Learning Framework, Battle for Kids, accessed January 3, 2023, [link] Becker, J. Goals for Global Education. Theory Into Practice , 21 (3), 228–233.

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America’s colleges struggle to envision the future of diversity on campus

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But as admissions officers judge the means and merits of applicants for the Class of 2023, what should they look for? The Harvard case (with a final hearing scheduled for mid-February) focuses narrowly on race and procedural questions about how Harvard assesses Asian-American applicants versus others during admissions reviews.

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What Is Universal Design for Learning ?

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2003), and Universal Instructional Design (UID; Silver et al., 2023) provide a broader view of UDL, defining it as “an instructional framework, a vehicle for diversifying instruction in order to deliver the general education curriculum to each pupil” (p. As Gargiulo and Metcalf (2023, p. Gargiulo, R. link] Rose, D.

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Detroit schools are effectively barred from raising funds to repair their buildings. Federal money is the city’s only hope

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While a school district assessment found Western will need $13.5 million in repairs by 2023, it is in better shape than many schools in Detroit, and in much of the United States. Johnson is proud of the renovation that, in part because he pushed for it, saw the restoration of an old flourish — a small cupola and weather vane.