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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. The post PROOF POINTS: Long-term college benefits from high-quality universal pre-K for all appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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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. Credit: Adria Malcolm for The Hechinger Report.

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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). Exploring ST Math’s Implementation and Impact: A Report from the Proving Ground. ST Math's educational content is conveyed in a game-like format. Summary of Efficacy. 2014, 2019).

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

The Hechinger Report

Fifteen years ago, Brenda Cassellius was an assistant principal at a Minneapolis high school when a local reporter asked her about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the brand-new congressional overhaul of federal education policy. This is just the medicine we need,” Cassellius recalls telling the reporter. Monday, Sept.

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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. For instance, since 2003, the number of schools granting undergraduate statistics degrees has increased from 74 to more than 110 in 2013. Enrollment in its undergraduate statistics program grew from just 34 majors in 2004 to 224 currently.

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What Kinds of Homework Seem to be Most Effective?

MindShift

If you made it past the headline, you’re likely a student, concerned parent, teacher or, like me, a nerd nostalgist who enjoys basking in the distant glow of Homework Triumphs Past (second-grade report on Custer’s Last Stand, nailed it!). So any comparison is, to a degree, apples-to-oranges (or, at least, apples-to-pears).

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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

The Hechinger Report

Students who share racial and/or gender characteristics with their teachers tend to report higher levels of personal effort, happiness in class, feeling cared for, student-teacher communication, post-secondary motivation, and academic engagement.”. By way of comparison, white non-Hispanics make up just 31.8 The share of U.S.