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Q&A: School Tech Integration Advocate Focuses On Mastery-Based Learning

EdTech Magazine

In 2005, with help from a sizable federal government grant, he founded the Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education, the first graduate program in the country designed to prepare tech-savvy school administrators.

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Study: One-to-One Laptop Programs Improve Student Learning

Doug Levin

The primary author of the study ( Binbin Zheng, Ph.D. Given the top line finding, I suspect the study will garner much attention and – at the same time – be subject to much spin. How was the study conducted? Learning in one-to-one laptop environments: A meta-analysis and research synthesis.

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Tulsa study offers more evidence of pre-K’s benefits into adulthood

The Hechinger Report

Researchers at Georgetown University have been studying the impact of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s program for two decades. The Tulsa research is part of a larger body of work studying the trajectory of children’s lives after they attend different types of publicly-funded preschool programs. Test scores aren’t the thing they’re thinking about.

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How to Talk About Sustainability In Your Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

For her graduate degree, she studied melting ice caps on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Some of the ice caps she studied in 2005 are now completely gone. Rebecca holds a B.A. in Geosciences from Williams College and an M.S. in Geological Sciences from the University of Colorado.

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PROOF POINTS: New study shows controversial post-Katrina school reforms paid off for New Orleans

The Hechinger Report

A new study finds that students subsequently bounced back and prospered after the public school system was replaced with charter schools, which are privately run but publicly financed. In 2014, the final year of this study, the number of students had risen to 44,000. Credit: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel. On average, students gained 5.7

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A Timeline of Social Studies Education in America

Edsurge

Source Information: 1820s ; 1898 ; 1960 ; 1916 ; 1921 ; 1929 / 1929 ; Late 40s - early 50s ; Late 50s - early 70s / Late 50s - early 70s ; 1965 ; 1980s ; 1983 ; 1994 ; 1999 ; 2001 ; 2005 ; 2010 ; 2013 ; 2012 - 2018 / 2012 - 2018 ; 2020.

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PROOF POINTS: Long-term college benefits from high-quality universal pre-K for all

The Hechinger Report

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. Even among success stories, the benefits of preschool can be fleeting.