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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

And it’s not just in the classroom. He states, “If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. References. University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 2007 ([link].

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A convenient untruth

Learning with 'e's

Style mismatches between teaching and learning, physical learning environments not conducive to information intake and unmet physical needs during the learning process can lead to frustration, stress, learning problems, underachievement, low self esteem, discipline problems among younger students, and dropoutism in high schools." Moseley, D.,

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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.” YEP got its start in 2004 as a re-entry program for teens involved in the juvenile-court system. But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out. But I was a chatterbox.”.

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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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Is the effort to curb strict discipline going too far, too fast?

The Hechinger Report

And that knowledge, she believes — combined with new strategies to help students regulate their emotions — has contributed to a 43 percent drop in the number of children referred for discipline from 2014 to 2016, according to school data. Some teachers say the changes happened too quickly and that classroom discipline has suffered.