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PROOF POINTS: It’s easier and easier to get an A in math

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This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The latest warning sign comes from college admissions test maker ACT, which compared students’ ACT test scores with their self-reported high school grades between 2010 and 2022. Sanchez asked, referring to an A grade on the 0 to 4 grade-point scale. in 2010 to 3.32 grade points from 3.02

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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

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Researc h: The Influence Of Socioeconomic Status In Elementary School Kieffer (2010) organized a study on upper elementary students focusing on reading levels of English language learners (ELLs) and native English speakers. ELLs and low-SES students are at an elevated risk for these difficulties (Kieffer, 2010).

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What Would It Take to Attract Gen Z to Teaching?

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Using extensive student survey data from ACT, a nonprofit assessment organization, along with state-level educator data and interviews with Gen Z teacher candidates and newly hired teachers, the researchers gained insight into Gen Z’s perceptions and motivations around teaching and identified opportunities to attract more of them into the field.

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What Educators Need to Know about Generation Alpha

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The guest, Allison Russell, was talking about the emotional intelligence of young people and mentioned that she’d just learned that her daughter was part of Generation Alpha , which refers to people born after 2010. I had questions and I wanted to know more. From their earliest years, he says, “they have been screenagers.”

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Teaching and Learning in a Project-Based World – #6 Evaluating Project-Based Learning

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It is now time to break down the last stage of this process: evaluating projects and assessing students. While project evaluation can be an interesting – even pleasant – process for educators, student assessment can be quite tricky. How do we respond to this challenge by assessing innovatively?

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How teaching informed by Assessment fosters learner Self-Management Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching & Learning Series (Part 6)

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We conclude this series with the last but not least IB requirements for teaching and learning in the Diploma Programme (DP): assessment and self-management skills. This final installment covers h ow to cultivate students’ self-management skills through teaching informed by assessment. How can you turn this around?

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PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says

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billion in grants between 2010 and 2016. billion between 2010 and 2016 to education nonprofits and researchers for the purpose of developing and testing new ideas in the classroom. WWC refers to the What Works Clearinghouse, a library of evidence-based teaching practices. Artificial intelligence is the current obsession.

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