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Feelings During FLOW-Related Learning

User Generated Education

Watch children, youth, and even adults when they are immersed in learning something of interest of them, and you will see often complete engagement and personal joy. Further, engagement has also been associated with positive student outcomes, including higher grades and decreased dropouts (Connell, Spencer, & Aber, 1994).

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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

Our innate capacity to learn, to think, to create, and adapt endowed us with the evolutionary advantages necessary to become one of the most successful organisms on the planet. And it’s not just in the classroom. This article was originally written and published by Rich Carr of Carr Knowledge. To label is to limit.

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A convenient untruth

Learning with 'e's

One of the biggest myths known to teacherdom is learning styles. Time and time again, the belief that students can be placed into specific categories such as activist or theorist, or that they are predominantly inclined toward one modal category of learning (e.g. learning-styles theory has succeeded in becoming “common knowledge.”

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Getting a GED while still enrolled in high school

The Hechinger Report

In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. YEP got its start in 2004 as a re-entry program for teens involved in the juvenile-court system. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. Black and Latino children fill 65 percent of New York City classrooms but just 22 percent of gifted seats.

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After all the fuss about getting in, how do poor students survive on elite campuses?

The Hechinger Report

I’ve learned there is no ceiling on what wealthy and ambitious parents will do and pay for when it comes to coveted private school admission. In 2004, I met Rachel Culley (now a lawyer) and admired the stunning pink coat she was wearing in Harvard Square. The scandal, of course, has shock value, ( Just look at those crazy parents!)

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We won’t have any black Mark Zuckerbergs or Bill Gates till we do this

The Hechinger Report

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Indeed, being a black college dropout negatively affects earnings by at least $10 per hour, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute. Among all students, black collegians need the option of going to college while starting a business. Sign up for our newsletter.

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