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

The Hechinger Report

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. By third grade, the gap between those with and without preschool often disappears.

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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. Now 89, Brown is the founder and past president of the National Institute for Play, and has spent much of his life studying play’s importance. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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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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How Classroom Political Discussions — Controversies, Too — Prepare Students for Needed Civic Participation

MindShift

In addition, they wanted to study the teachers providing the “high quality” discussions to find out what they were doing right. All of the teachers they studied had quite a bit of teaching experience, and the majority had degrees in history or political science. A Twenty-first Century Guide to Politics in the Classroom .

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

“ Facebook Is Not a Technology Company ,” media studies professor Ian Bogost also wrote in August. ” Accessibility and Technology (and the Role of Governments and Corporations). It’s another one of those open questions: what will happen to “access” to the Internet under President Trump?

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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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For safer schools, we need more hugs, not more guns

The Hechinger Report

“In less than 18 years, we have already seen more deaths related to school shootings than in the whole 20th century,” said Antonis Katsiyannis, Clemson University researcher and the lead author of a 2018 study on school shootings. Of course, we can also do our part by making guns harder to access, but that’s a whole other column.).