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6 ways to support computer science education

eSchool News

The authors offer a series of recommendations for federal and state policymakers to leverage this momentum: • Reform curricula for existing technology classes to focus on core concepts of computer science in primary and secondary schools. Establish more STEM-intensive public charter high schools.

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Five Compelling Reasons For Teaching Spatial Reasoning To Young Children

MindShift

There are numerous research studies that demonstrate the relationship between spatial reasoning and what we typically think of as mathematical ability. For example, one research study found that the quality of block play at four years of age was a predictor of high school mathematics achievement (Wolfgang et al.,

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

10 Percent — Yearly increase in the percent of students achieving basic scores on state tests required by No Child Left Behind Act in 2010. Ken Campbell, who was director of charter schools for the Louisiana Department of Education between 2007 and early 2010, agreed that federal mandates likely had something to do with it.

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Isn’t it time to stop Wikipedia shaming?

NeverEndingSearch

Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC), our IMLS-funded study, uses simulated Google result lists to examine what happens when student researchers make real-time search engine result page decisions. Student simulation tasks (RSIC study). Wikipedia: Helpfulness vs. citability across the grade-level cohorts (RSIC Study).

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

One study by the Louisiana board of education showed that 40 percent of retained eighth graders did not even make it to a high-school campus after being held back. Laster’s presentation, based on 2010 data, reported that 28 percent of Louisiana students did not make it to fourth grade on time.

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Can you fix middle school by getting rid of it?

The Hechinger Report

Up until about 1900, the American education system operated on a two-tier structure, with eight years of primary school followed by four years of secondary school. Meanwhile, secondary school enrollment numbers were shrinking, while elementary enrollments were exploding, due to the postwar baby boom. But the plan didn’t hold.

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0: decreases from the fourth quarter of 2010.