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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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The Science Behind Spatial-Temporal Math

MIND Research Institute

Games have the potential to be perceived as an enjoyable and fun activity and, with that, might provide a preferred means to teach math (Bragg, 2003). Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia , 160–167. ST Math's educational content is conveyed in a game-like format.

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Want resilient and well-adjusted kids? Let them play

The Hechinger Report

When the researchers compared information about the inmates’ childhoods with a population outside the prison, they found that the comparison group could provide abundant examples of free play in childhood, while the group inside prison largely could not.

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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.) Where groups collaborate, social ties are critical in ensuring that their aims are achieved. 2003) Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. Festinger Social Comparison Theory 11. References Jenkins, H. Surowiecki, J. London: Abacus.

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A New Social Science? Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

TeachThought - Learn better.

Overall, the number of statistics bachelor’s degrees has grown from 526 in 2003 to 1,678 in 2013. Businesses throughout the country are forming analytics groups and seeing the value of data analysis. For instance, since 2003, the number of schools granting undergraduate statistics degrees has increased from 74 to more than 110 in 2013.

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

The Hechinger Report

Civil rights groups and organizations working on behalf of underserved students, however, have been less than enthusiastic. Many states either were not tracking them at all or were using widely disparate formulas that made state-by-state comparisons impossible. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.