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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). ST Math's educational content is conveyed in a game-like format. Summary of Efficacy. Besides MIND’s internal testing, ST Math has also been independently evaluated (Wendt et al., 2014, 2019).

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

The Hechinger Report

Many states either were not tracking them at all or were using widely disparate formulas that made state-by-state comparisons impossible. In 2005, the nation’s governors signed a bipartisan compact agreeing to use the same formula to calculate how many of their students earned diplomas. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J.

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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

The Hechinger Report

Piña Mota said she would have felt more comfortable asking for help in navigating how to pay for college, for example. By way of comparison, white non-Hispanics make up just 31.8 They both believe that having Hispanic teachers might have made a difference in their education. population as a whole by 2060. The share of U.S.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

” Related: How to help struggling young readers. Kids must be explicitly taught how to connect sounds with letters — phonics. Even though Silva had known little about how children learn to read or how reading should be taught, he’d long been aware that some older students were struggling too.

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Is Head Start a failure?

The Hechinger Report

If all continues apace, the largest public program in the country could be just one step ahead, creating a road map for how to operate an early education program big enough to serve more than a million children without sacrificing quality. One of the key elements to Head Start has always been its emphasis on local control. But the U.S.

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

The Hechinger Report

By comparison, whiter metros such as Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Minneapolis have some of the lowest concentrations of security guards. 5, the philanthropic groupommunities for Just Schools Fund (CJSF) is set to release a new report that will show educators how to foster connectedness in schools.

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Scrutiny of colleges that get billions in GI Bill money remains mired in bureaucracy

The Hechinger Report

The most trumpeted new approach focuses around a complaint system and a separate GI Bill comparison tool that flags schools the department determines are in trouble. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the number of veterans using the benefit has doubled, to nearly 900,000 last year. Photo: Peggy Peattie for The Hechinger Report.

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