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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

Referred to often as operant conditioning, instrumental learning, stimulus-response, or classical conditioning it harkens back to Pavlov’s salivating dog, Thorndike’s hungry cat escaping a puzzle box, and Skinner’s pigeons that could ‘read’ or ‘drop’ bombs. References. If you’re unlucky, they zap your audience’s desire to learn.

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Four Reasons Why Students Don’t Receive the Degrees They’ve Earned

Edsurge

In keeping with that mindset, some education leaders refer to lost students as “stopouts” rather than “dropouts.” Wayne State University, a four-year college that has lost more than 12,000 “stopped out” students since 2004, is experimenting with one such effort, which they call Warrior Way Back. “What are the lessons here?

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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.

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

The Hechinger Report

There are gifted dropouts. Yet the internet and reference books teem with professionally endorsed lists of so-called gifted traits. Additional Black kids were “talented,” which in Louisiana refers specifically to the arts.)

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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. Highline isn’t the only district facing backlash over new discipline policies.