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What Kinds of Homework Seem to be Most Effective?

MindShift

students are justifiably exhausted and nervous from too much homework — even though some international comparisons suggest they’re sitting comfortably at the average. So any comparison is, to a degree, apples-to-oranges (or, at least, apples-to-pears). Well, here goes. And the latter students are getting a lot of homework.

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ProfHacker 2015 Holiday Gift Guide

ProfHacker

So after hunting around and doing comparison reviews I purchased the 2015 Roku 2 , which is standalone, plugs into Ethernet connections and is service agnostic, which I really appreciate. Players change the game permanently over the course of twelve months of play, and even add stickers to the board and rip up cards.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

They decided the first step would be a series of training sessions over the course of a school year for all the principals at the district’s 16 elementary schools. So in 2015, Butler and her colleagues decided to repeat the study they’d done in 2003. They examined the early literacy courses at 15 teacher prep programs.

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Is Head Start a failure?

The Hechinger Report

Many times during the course of its history it’s been underfunded and run into issues of quality,” Lombardi said. 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. Former President George W. Photo: Paul J.

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

The Hechinger Report

Of course, we can also do our part by making guns harder to access, but that’s a whole other column.). By comparison, whiter metros such as Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Minneapolis have some of the lowest concentrations of security guards. But why is connectedness so important?

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

The reporting often isolates education technology from other developments in the computer technology sector and tends to isolate education technology from education politics and policies more broadly (unless, of course, those policies dovetail with the political interests of ed-tech and ed-reform, which they often do).