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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

Using self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2008), a study involving 735 workers was conducted to examine autonomy's impact on overall morale. A study using a large email survey of managers found overwhelming support for having fun in the workplace. Provide autonomy Micro-managing never ends well. & Fouquereau, E.

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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000. Miriam Hamburger, a 2017 religious studies graduate from Occidental College, is a good example.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

The Hechinger Report

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. Most importantly, it studied math, often an insurmountable requirement for many students to complete their college degrees.

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PROOF POINTS: A study suggests an instructive way to talk to little crawlers

The Hechinger Report

A small study finds that crawling babies whose parents directed them to play with a toy had larger vocabularies than babies whose parents didn’t talk to them this way. Walle suspects that the crawlers catch up with the early walkers, both physically and verbally, but now he has a new study for anxious parents.

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PROOF POINTS: Seven new studies on the impact of a four-day school week?

The Hechinger Report

We know that kids love it and so do parents and teachers,” said Emily Morton, a researcher at NWEA, a nonprofit assessment company, who has studied four-day school weeks around the country. The first empirical study, published in 2015, found that Colorado students in four-day schools did a lot better. The research evidence isn’t clear.

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PROOF POINTS: Tracing Black-white achievement gaps since the Brown decision

The Hechinger Report

The gap between white and Black students hasn't improved much since 2008. The gap between white and Black students was at its most narrow in 1988, but the scores of Black 13-year-olds continued to rise until 2008.

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This District Tapped Students’ Histories to Create an Ethnic Studies Curriculum

Edsurge

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to ReInvest. After taking several ethnic studies classes in college, I began to earnestly reflect on my life with a race, class and gender (emergent) frame. Shortly after college, I became a social studies teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD).

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