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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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A New Social Science? Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

TeachThought - Learn better.

ALEXANDRIA, VA Statistics—the science of learning from data—is the fastest-growing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) undergraduate degree in the United States over the last four years, an analysis of federal government education data conducted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) revealed.

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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.) The basic data gathering methods and procedures for the Small World experiment can be found at this link. 2003) Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. Festinger Social Comparison Theory 11. References Jenkins, H. Surowiecki, J.

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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

The Hechinger Report

For one thing, NCLB forced states to shine a brighter light on their lowest-achieving students and publicly share data on their progress — often for the first time. That data has become a valuable tool for educators, policy makers and researchers. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.

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

Bryan Alexander

For example, McGee shares excellent data about the high school graduating population dropping recently, then flatlining for the next decade (23-24). 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

For example, McGee shares excellent data about the high school graduating population dropping recently, then flatlining for the next decade (23-24). 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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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. An hour or less a day? But we hear so many horror stories!