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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). The "ST" in ST Math stands for "spatial-temporal" and refers to our platform's signature design approach. References: Ashcraft, M. Summary of Efficacy. 2014, 2019). & Wang, S.

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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.) References Jenkins, H. 2003) Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. Festinger Social Comparison Theory 11. But that is the subject matter for another blog post. 2006) Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.

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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

The Hechinger Report

She’s referring to decades of research on teacher diversity showing that students perform better when they are exposed to teachers who look like them and who have similar backgrounds. By way of comparison, white non-Hispanics make up just 31.8 Hispanics are on track to make up more than a quarter of the U.S. The share of U.S.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

“It was always, ‘Well, that’s not a reflection of Bethlehem,'” he said, referring to the reading scores. By the 1980s, the debate was so intense that people began referring to it as “the reading war.” So in 2015, Butler and her colleagues decided to repeat the study they’d done in 2003.

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Is Head Start a failure?

The Hechinger Report

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. Bush performs the timeless and bipartisan presidential ritual of reading to young children at Highland Park Elementary School in Landover, Maryland in the summer of 2003.

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

MindShift

Wunn became executive director of the National Speech and Debate Association in 2003, and began working to transform the association, adding 60,000 students nationwide to the association’s membership as well as adding a popular new category of debate that focuses on issues surrounding current events.

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The looming decline of the public research university

The Hechinger Report

In fact, the researchers who run this year-old, $750,000 lab at OSU’s Spine Research Institute resort often to Hollywood comparisons. She is referring not just to her own staff, but also to the bright young researchers working in centers like hers on this campus and others across the Midwest. They will leave,” she says.