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Your classroom does not have to be Pinterest-worthy: Stay reflective on the WHY & avoid comparison

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I did it already, but mine looks amateurish in comparison. Oh hey, I have a set-up similar to that…but my handwriting is atrocious, and it’s not colorful, and basically my version looks like total crap in comparison. So we hand wrote and handmade everything and it all looked pretty awful in comparison to today’s standards.

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PROOF POINTS: Long-term college benefits from high-quality universal pre-K for all

The Hechinger Report

So far, a 2021 study of Boston’s universal pre-K program found that students who attended the city’s preschools between 1997 and 2003 were more likely to go to college immediately after high school. It’s not clear whether these newer and much larger programs will also produce long-term benefits. college and university.

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Want resilient and well-adjusted kids? Let them play

The Hechinger Report

The student had access to firearms at home; he had witnessed abuse while growing up; and he had a difficult relationship with his father. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. In the years after the shooting, he and a team of researchers interviewed men who were incarcerated in the Texas Huntsville Prison for homicide.

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Our mutual friends

Learning with 'e's

Milgram''s question was, how many someones are in the chain?'' (Watts, 2003, p38.) Learning within a highly connected community of practice provides learners with new vistas, greater scope for exploration, and access to dialogue at the highest level in their field of study. 2003) Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age.

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.”

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.”

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Is Head Start a failure?

The Hechinger Report

They also have family case workers who help adults access services for which they’re eligible and set goals to help them move into steadier, better paying work. For comparison, that’s still less that the $32 billion available in tuition support for disadvantaged students though the federal Pell Grant program this year. But the U.S.

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