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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

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There were 236 papers presented with the word “online” in their titles at this year’s meeting of the American Educational Research Association, compared to 158 the year before the pandemic — a nearly 50 percent increase. a university administrator enthused in a survey, referring to a type of scholarship that examines an activity in progress.

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This Texas college’s focus on mental health helps students work through trauma, stay on track

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From 2003 and 2017, researchers found that suicide rates rose among Black youth of all ages — with the biggest increase seen among the 15- to 17-year-olds, according to an article published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Paul Quinn’s clinic boasts a staff mainly composed of three women of color.

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Are science fairs unfair?

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Jane Goodall would not have had her science fair project accepted,” said William McComas, a professor of science education at the University of Arkansas, at the February meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Related: Take our audience survey. And too often the fair is a burden on families and teachers.

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Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education — with one big exception

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A new study finds that most immigrant groups meet or surpass average U.S. Two economists from the University of Colorado and the University of Texas at Austin studied data from a monthly survey conducted by the Census Department and the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2003 through 2016 and found that U.S.

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

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Connections in Championing, Coaching, and Mentoring In an effort to understand why teachers continue to teach in a challenging career I once conducted a survey of 75 Middle School teachers asking them to identify why they stayed in their profession.13I New York: Free, 2003. How do rubrics change satisfaction? & Birkeland, S.E.

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

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In a recent report, Education Week dug deep into student proficiency rates on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) from 2003 through 2015. Based on those reports, Education Week found a “modest degree of improvement” in academic achievement by fourth- and eighth-graders in reading and math from 2003 to 2015.

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Why It’s Time to Rethink School Science Fairs

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Jane Goodall would not have had her science fair project accepted,” said William McComas, a professor of science education at the University of Arkansas, at the February meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. There’s a sort of archaic notion about how science works that’s embedded into a lot of the judging.”.

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